Wife of Italian ice-cream vendor murdered in Sligo
Sligo, 23 December 1914 - Two people have been arrested and charged with the murder of Rose De Lucia in Co. Sligo this month.
The accused are Angelo De Lucia, an ice-cream vendor and husband of the murdered woman, and Jane Reynolds, their servant.
A RIC confidential report for Sligo for the month of December 1914 remarks on the seriousness of a local murder. On the morning of the 8th, 'a married woman named Rose de Lucia, an Italian, was murdered in her house on Castle Street, Sligo...'. Click on the image to view the report in full. (Image: CO 904/95, RIC Confidential Report for Sligo the month of December 1914)
A hammer was found beside the dead woman, who had recently given birth to her first child.
[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]
