PRIEST KILLED
SHOT BY DERANGED MAN SISTER-IN-LAW SERIOUSLY WOUNDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 29. (Received April 30, at 11.20 a.m.) Father Julius Moscati, aged fifty, a Catholic priest, was shot and killed, and his sister-in-law, Mrs Christina Moscati, was shot and seriously injured by an apparently deranged man, who said he wanted to be a member of the church. He entered the rectory and fired point blank at the two. To the police ho freely admitted the crime, but refused to state the reason other than the cryptic remark: “If I had not done it somebody would have shot me.” (Received April 30, at 2.10 p.m.) The rectory was the Church of Our Lady in Jersey City. The police say the assassin was enraged at Mrs Moscati for a bill allegedly due. He shot at her, and the priest was killed when he intervened. ___
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Evening Star, Issue 21707, 30 April 1934, Page 11
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