NYPD Crime Scene Photographs 1914-1918

Evidence – NYPD Crime Scene Photographs 1914-1918 by Luc Sante

Three small children playing in a vacant lot in 45th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Streets, in Brooklyn, at dusk yesterday came across a wine barrel the head of which had been covered by burlap nailed to the sides. They tore this off and saw a pair of feet sticking out. They ran away frightened and told a man, who notified the police of the Fourth Avenue Station. Captain Arthur Carey, Chief of the Homicide Bureau, took fingerprints and ordered the body removed to the Fourth Avenue Station. There it was found the man had been murdered. His throat was cut, his face and forehead gashed, and there were 24 stab wounds on the upper part of his body. Identity was established by means of a draft card found in a pocket of the coat. This showed he was Gaspare Candella, with a police record here, in Boston, and in Washington D.C. Gaspar lived at 1529 East 54th Street, Brooklyn. The police say the man was killed as a result of a feud. [the New York Times, November 9, 1918]

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