A GIRL AND A PISTOL.

Shannon News, 7 March 1924, Page 2

A GIRL AND A PISTOL.

TRAGIC ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

While their parents were shopping, Rosalie Manfredonia, aged 19, and her sister, Eva, 13 talked about the crime wave in their home in New York. Rosalie was employed in a business office, where she often handled money, and her younger sister had worried a great deal about her since bandit operations became so extensive.

"What Would you do, Rosalie/' she asked, "if bandits should meet you on the street and order you to put up your hands?" Rosalie then confided a secret to Eva. She went to another room and got a small automatic pistol. "I went to the store a few days ago and bought this to protect myself against bandits," she explained, "and what I'd do to them would be aplenty." , The pistol was loaded, and Rosalie went to a window to show how sho would deal with hold-up men by firing a shot in the,court. The pistol didn't work. She took out the magazine and continued to pull the trigger, holding it under her eyes to see what was the matter with it. Finally a cartridge . left'in the firing chamber exploded, and ' the bullet penetrated the young woman 's right temple. She sank to tha floor, and Eva called a policeman. Rosalie was dead when Dr. Muscillo, of Fordham Hospital, reached the house.