Tragedy Strikes the Ventrillo Home
On Feb 4 1918 Nicola entered the Niagara Falls Police headquarters and confessed to the Feb 1 murder of Salvatore Gesualdo, a boarder in his home, explaining that he believed Gesualdo "wronged his wife" by "being attentive to her."
Evidentiary documents include but are not limited to;
The Lockport Union Sun and Journal Feb 5 1918, Feb 9 1918, and The Illustrated Buffalo (NY) Express Feb 24 1918.
As reported on Feb 24 1918 in The Illustrated Buffalo (NY) Express, Dr's A.N. Moore and James W. Putnam declared Nicola to be insane. He was therefore committed to the Buffalo State Hospital by County Court Judge Norman D. Fish.
As a result of this tragedy a judgment of foreclosure and sale was granted and on Aug 2 1921 the home of Nicola and Giovannina was sold at public auction.
The devastation of these events help to explain why Jennie and her family seldom attended family gatherings in Rochester where her sister Maria and her husband Salvatore Magnera lived and why she never talked about the past.
Evidentiary documents include but are not limited to;
The Lockport Union Sun and Journal Feb 5 1918, Feb 9 1918, and The Illustrated Buffalo (NY) Express Feb 24 1918.
As reported on Feb 24 1918 in The Illustrated Buffalo (NY) Express, Dr's A.N. Moore and James W. Putnam declared Nicola to be insane. He was therefore committed to the Buffalo State Hospital by County Court Judge Norman D. Fish.
As a result of this tragedy a judgment of foreclosure and sale was granted and on Aug 2 1921 the home of Nicola and Giovannina was sold at public auction.
The devastation of these events help to explain why Jennie and her family seldom attended family gatherings in Rochester where her sister Maria and her husband Salvatore Magnera lived and why she never talked about the past.
