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Pasquale Tuozzo

Re: Pasquale Tuozzo

Posted: 1 Jun 2015 12:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Jun 2015 12:20PM GMT
I don't mean to sound stupid. I just wanted to make sure that I am understanding you right.

The picture of just the two men holding a gun in their hands. You have one man who seems to have much lighter hair than the other one and it is coming from under his hat with a part. He would be the one on my left as I look at the picture. You're saying he is Kilpatrick and the gentlemen to his left is Tuozzo .

I see on the other picture. The name Tuozzo is written on the bottom of the picture.

I just didn't see the resemblance in the picture of Pasquale to the one that is on Ancestry of him when he was older; but he has gained a few pounds and has a fuller face.

In reviewing the article. It sounds like this is not the Army I know. Pasquale is accused of killing Pvt. William Kilpatrick.

Pvt. McLaughlin of Troop G. was acquitted of the charge that he had murdered the Q. M. Sgt. William A. Hogan. It looks like a lot of fowl play was going on and doesn't smell good. I wouldn't be surprise if they found out someone else had done it and he was acquitted of the murder and set free.

The other side of the coin is that Wyatt Earp was still alive I think and this was still a time when a mans family and his honor meant a lot and some places things were still settled by the barrel of a gun and even if it meant serving some time.

The west was or had just started to settle and grow. A few of the old outlaw turned sheriff were still around. I imagine that might be a part of what was going on here or the individuals who were shot were in a leadership capacity and treated the men really bad. I am not sure if the difference between the Italians and the Irish came much later and had to do more with the roaring twenties and the gang wars.

Both Italians and Irish were treated bad at that time. They were both looked down upon. I know in the 1920's in Chicago and New York there was no great love for each other; but that was due to the Gang wars and prohibition.

God Bless and God Speed,
Danny

Re: Pasquale Tuozzo

Posted: 1 Jun 2015 12:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sorry, my bad, on the pic with Pasquale and the guns, he is the one on the right. On the other pic, with the four men, he is far left.

It does look like something big going down!

If he is my Pasquale, I've never heard a bad word said, his grandchildren loved him dearly! Odd thought how he only appeared in 1930 from seemingly out of nowhere!

Re: Pasquale Tuozzo

Posted: 2 Jun 2015 3:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
I just want to say one thing. I don't think you would; but don't judge him and especially with comparing anything to todays standards. We didn't walk a mile in his shoes as my father use to say. He also use to say we have never felt one ounce of pain that another might have felt nor the insults that might have been thrust upon him. We just don't know.

My father use to say "That God is our only judge". That no man has the right to judge another.

God Bless and God Speed,
Danny

Re: Pasquale Tuozzo

Posted: 2 Jun 2015 6:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
I never judge. I can only begin to imagine the privations he suffered. First, I doubt emigration to the USA was akin to 2 weeks all inclusive in Barbados. As soon as he possibly could he signed up for the army and fought. I also doubt that a couple of years in the Phllipines was without challenges too! Bilibid prison in Manila doesn't sound like a place where a young man, sentenced to 99 years hard labour would have found peace, love, and understanding. Then being moved to Alcatraz? I've seen the films!

Then after all of that, to (possibly) being released, choosing the UK as your place to settle (most likely kicked straight out of the US) only to find the start of WW2, and lo, and behold, Italians became public enemy number 2. He must have been sitting in those valleys, with his head in his hands? Apparently not, he found a wife, adopted her children, and their children, taught them how to bake, how to grow stuff on an allotment, and taught them Italian prayers (which were sung rather than said, or chanted). An all round amazing man. No, I'm not judging him!


Re: Pasquale Tuozzo

Posted: 2 Jun 2015 7:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Jun 2015 9:17AM GMT
Thanks for answering.

I didn't think you were. I have seen two incidents where that was the case in other threads. I just didn't know how you were thinking and thought I would add a little backup.

I noticed his eyes in the older picture on Ancestry. I made a copy of all three pictures. I enlarged the picture. His eyes tell a lot. He looks like a real decent person as you said. I like him. He has a warm face and smile. He's no out and out killer. He looks like he would in self defense and especially in the protection of his family. He looks like a good hard working honest man. He loves children and like my father use to say. " I got a bowl of soup. You got a spoon".

Well I will see you later. It is getting late and my eyes are getting tired.
God Bless and God Speed,
Danny
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