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Show Louis Alpene, Aged 80 Years, Is Shot Down by Antonio Cardamone, Who Makes His Escape Dead Man, Who is Alleged to Have Borne a Bad Reputation, Is Said to Have Caused the Trouble Leading to the Tragedy. While- standing In the door of his own room, Louis Alponc, aged SU years, and Italian who bears a bad icputatlon among his countrymen. I was shot and killed by Antonio Card- amone, also an Italian, at a bunk- house In the rear of 142 Tracy avenue I at 10:45 o'clock last evening. Two bullets entered tho man's body and he was dead when tho police arrived ar-rived shortly after tho shootlug took place. The murderer escaped and no trace of his whereabouts has been obtained. According to tho statements of t,wo other Italians who were in another part of the bunkhouso at the time of the shooting, tho troublo which led to the killing was the result of a drunken debauch in which Alponc had engaged during the evening. When the other tenants of tho building build-ing remonstrated Alpene became , abusive, assailing the Italians with ile oaths. Two Shots Take' Effect. Cardamone thou stepped outside his room and Is said to havo fired four I shots when Alpene opened his door. Two of the bullets entered the man's body, one penetrating the left breast near the shoulder, passing almost en tirely through the bodv and probably causing Instant death. 'The other bullet bul-let entered at tho left side of tho abdomen and apparently lodged near the spine. A third bullet passed through tho casing of the door apparently appar-ently just over Alpene's head and imbedded itself in the celling of the room. No trace of the fourth bullet -was found. One of the bullets was removed from the man's body and was found to bo a 32 caliber steel missle Regarding Alpene's reputation as a bad Italian, tho other men In the bunkhouso told the police that he had murdered three brothers In the old country, shooting two of thorn to death and stabbing the third. They also claimed that previous to coming to Utah he had shot and killed a man In California. Alpene, they claimed, has a wife In thq old country but did not dare to return because o( the crimes which he is alleged to have committed there. Death Was Instantaneous. In answer to a telephone call from Sebastian Robhlno, owner of the bunk house and who resides at 112 Tracy avenue. Officers Oren Hadlock and John HutchiiiB went to tho scene of tho murder. They found the body ot Alpene lying on tho floor of his bunk-house bunk-house room Tho position of the body Indicated that he had been standing at the onen door and fell backward without taking a step after the bullets had entered 'his body. The officors could discover no indication in-dication of life in the man's body and Dr. .L W. Pidcock, who arrived a few minutes later, pronounced the man dead. The building in which tho shooting occurred Is a low one-story structure with the rooms arranged In stall fashion, fash-ion, each room having an outside door but no door between the apartments. Alpene occupied tho room at the extreme ex-treme south ond of tho building. F. Mancuse, an Italian who occupies occu-pies the next room, stated that as early as six o'clock last evening the murdered man had started drinking I whiskey, as he had done for many nights previous, and later began sing- Ing and creating a general disturbance. distur-bance. Cardamone, tho murderer, occupied oc-cupied the same room with Mancuse and the latter claims that at 10'30 o'clock they had not been able to sleep because of Alpene's continual disturbance In tho next room. Victim Curced the Italians. When they asked him to be quiet, Mancuse claims that tho aged Italian cursed them with all the vllo oaths of his native tongue The Italian claims he did not see Cardamone leave tho room with his revolver but heard the shooting outside and reached reach-ed the door in time to seo the man standing about twelve feet in front of Alpene's door with the rovolver In his hand. Then Cardamone dls-appeard dls-appeard without returning to his room. Sebastian Robblano, the owner of the house, and D. Martollo, another Italian tennant of the place, also heard the shooting and corroborated the statements of Mancuse as to tho disturbance created by Alpene All throe declared that his actions last evening were no exception to j his nightly conduct for several weeks past, claiming that It was his nightly custom to drink himself drunk on bad whiskey and then carrj his solitary soli-tary disturbance far into the nlghL A quart bottle half filled with whiskey was found on the table when tho officers offi-cers entered Alpono s room. Tho Italians claim that an American, Ameri-can, who camo to the place about a week ago, slept in the same room with Alpene. This man, they say, camo to tho bunkhouse about lo o'clock but, finding hla Italian roommate room-mate Indulging, in another drunken revel, ho went away and had not returned re-turned up to thctlmo the officers left tlio place. That Alpene was not murdered for the niiriiose of robbery Is Indicated by tho fact that a pocket-book pocket-book containing over ?30 was found on the body.,v Description of the Murderer. According to tho description given (o tho police. Cardamone Ib about 21 cars of age. He is about live feet six inches in height nnd will weigh about 160 pounds. Ho has a small black mo'iistachc. Since com-1 Ing to this city lasl'November ho had been employed at tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific coal chutes. Alpcno was an expert powder man, receiving from $3 to ?7 a day whllo employed In the mines. He had not been working for the past threo months. The Italians claiming that he had spent much of this time in drinking drink-ing heavily While searching his room last evening the officers found about 700 feet of fuse, a box of caps and a small can of giant powder wrapped wrap-ped vp in a handkerchief. Robblano claims that during the evening Alpene Al-pene had threatened to blow up the bunkhouso and kill everybody In tho place. Tho several Italians suspected of being connected with tho shooting last night were released this morn- J Ing, tho police having hecomo con- i vlnced that thero waslno evidence on which to hold them. Cargamone is J still at large and so far no trace of his whereabouts 1ms been obtained. It Is suspected that ho has gone to Salt Lake whoro it Is reportod he has rclaties and the Salt Lake police hao been notified to keep a sharp lookout for him, .nil i - - -tr - i-iuin 1 1 u , |