Police Clippings 11/38
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 21, 1916.
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„Boys in the neighborhood have been calling him Charlie Chaplin“
Editorial content. „HIS CHAPLIN WALK THE
CAUSE OF MURDER
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Italian, Ridiculed by Boys, Kills Their Father.
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Angered by Gibes on Account of His Gait.
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Uses an Old Blunderbuss
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It is more than fifty years since Pasquale Caruso fought
with Garibaldi, and more years than that since the old
bell-mouthed blunderbuss that he brought over with him from
Italy was tired in anger or otherwise. But last night
Caruso and the blunderbuss both got into action, and as a result
Joseph Certona, an Italian contractor, is lying dead
in his home at 1400 Sixty-sixth street, Brooklyn, with half
his head blown off, says the New York Tribune.
Caruso and Certona were neighbors in the Italian settlement
that lies midway between Bath Beach and Borough
Park. Caruso says he is 76 years old, but his children with
whom he lives say he is 80. He is a plasterer by trade,
but lately rheumatism has so crippled him that he has been
able to work but little. This same rheumatism has
affected his gait so that boys in the neighborhood have been
calling him Charlie Chaplin.“ (...)
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