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Show m PRAY FOR DEAD 3 IN CITY STREET alnK New York, Aug. 1G Twelve hun- Idred Italians, who had just left a midnight mid-night open-air celebration of the feast of the Assumption In the upper Bronx, knelt In the street at 1 o'clock am i this morning around the body of 9 ;' Frank Rinioli, one of theli leaders, 9 ' ' who lay d-ecapitatcd under a Jerome .njk ' avenue street car. Jlimoli was knock- 9 r ed off the- car by a collision with an 'L -9 pillar and fell under the wheels. The conductor of the car declared to "rvi3 TED i passengers that the accident was due "S to the fact that Rimoli had Jumped il on lx)ard from the wrong side In an '1 : effort to avoid paying his fare. ?Wk "That Is true," said one of Rimoli's i.Bfft ; friends, "lie had put every cent he 'fill i possessed Into the collection plate ni 3g? the fcasL" -T The cnduclor himself a deout "piT.( Italian, then suggested that all tho3o 7j 1 present kneel and pray for the soul Mf of Rimoli. Several cars following, all jSfm crowded with Italians, were stopped, ''S42 and their occupants joined those ?ADJDl' Praying In the street until fully 1,200 0t men and women were kneeling around SSr, the mangled body. |