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EAST SIDE PAYSTRIBUTE AT BIER'OF YOUNG WIFEftInnocent Victim of shotProm Detective's Guntntlt;lt;1oIs Taid Honors. avTO RE BURIED TO-DA\Costly Funeral ArrangedWith Scores of FloralogvonPieces and Carriages. l*JAMES STREET MOURNSfji tiFund of $700 Collected by pMayor* Vanella and Friendstifor Mrs. Bifulco.IIn a white hearee adorned with kneel-i’tff angels and drawn by e:% white horses the body of Dolarato Bifulco will leave 54 James street this morning. An open carriage laden with a hundred 1 ( 'loral pieces and many bunches of lilies and roses will follow. In the next carriage will ride Frank Bifulco, husband of Dolarato, and hie mother, and Frank’s • mother will carry Dan Bifulco, twenty- j five days old and son of Dolarato and Frank. In the wake of the family car-*Rrlage will roll thirty more carriages i afilled with sympathetic folk*. led by no I a less a personage than Hon.” Robert ! ^ Vanella, undertaker and Mayor of j r.Tames street.” ksAny one ignorant of the circumstancesBvflfiT !H v 'p. . , T;• *might have Joined the throng that shuf- ; rfled through the dark halle of 54 James | t street yesterday and decided that a per- I sen far more important in the world’s fl affairs than Dolarato Bifulco was being mourned. You almost had to fight your way up fo the third floor rear and through the two miniature rooms to see the little woman’s body lying in Its lavender and white coffin, and last night two policemen from the Oak street station hod to bo called upon to keep the crowd moving. You may take the word of “Mayor” Vanella that not in five cars has there been any finer funeral -outh of Delano* y street and c ast of Turk How.clVrtY ftlt;iKhot l»i \ lt;*c* I lt;1 •* ii t.eata1afl ccVVa/Fast Thursday a lad snatched a package from a wagon trundling through | Oliver street, between Henry and Madison. Detective Kenny, one of Capt. Kinsler’s men up In the First Branch Detective Bureau, chased the youth and | !lt; fired two shots after him. Dolarato 1Bifulco was standing almost opposite 1 ‘ Gov. Smith’s home. In Oliver street. The second shot tore through her abdomn. She died an hour later in the VolunteerHospital. 'Then James street recalled that almost us soon as Ajnerlcs declared war upon Germany Frank Bifulco then only 22 and trying to acquire sufficient money to marry Dolarato, enlisted in theFnfted States Army. Dolarato, no less enthusiastic. went about to the various canteens and huts where soldiers and tiilors were entertained by the K of C.and the Red Cross. She volunteered to hdo anything she was capable of—wash- flng dishe*. waiting on tables, scrubbing , f floors* anything. flFrank came back from France intact and wearing a couple lt;*f decorations. He c lost no time getting to work, and in less e than a month after boingd* mobilized wat* • employed in an Oak street bakery, where . n ho still reports every morning. Frank j ii n:1 Dolarato were married in splendid n utyle, and less than a month ago the tbaby appeared. tja“Mayor** Himrin Inncrnl Fund.ssct8Wtl$sVobody w'ftfi sorrier than Capt. Klnsler and Detective Kenny. KinsI* r suggested‘hat he and Kenny start a fund and that policemen and anybody else on the Fast Side might contribute. “Mayor” Vn-nella told James stre« t about It. He started the movement by saying that his services as undertaker were donated. In a day $200 was contributed, and no donation was greater than a dollar. Yesterday the Mayor” of James street announced that the fund amounted to al- j most $700. •_ -r---’I“It’s to be put In the Bowery Savings -Bank,” said “Mayor** Vanella, “as at* 1 rust fund for the baby f am very -o’i»i of my people of Jamefl street. | They lovr each other and are good o 1 ti-•/.an s. And so long we Americans love each other wo shall be all good citizens md America will continue to prospr.”/\I/
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New York Herald
New York, New York, US
Mon, Nov 08, 1920
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Joseph M.
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