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Data source and researcher is Jean Cawley Corazza, E-mail jcorazza@verizon.net
Hazleton Sentinel; Monday, December 27, 1886:
Last evening between seven and eight o'clock the residents of Donegal Hill were seen running excitedly toward the corner of Beech and Pine street. This corner is occupied by the premises of Mrs. Salinda Mumaw, which has for many years been known as a resort for those who make disreputable assignments with loose female characters; it is also known as a bawdy house. The crowd of people were brought to this place by the report that a man had been murdered in the house by two Italians.
Between the hours above mentioned two Italians gained admittance to Mrs. Mumaw's kitchen fronting on Beech street. There were three other men in the room when the Italians came in, and shortly after the admission of the latter, they began to quarrel with one of the former party. A decidedly warm altercation ensued, and Emma Weaver, one of the inmates of the premises, endeavored to make peace, but finding the Italians determined to fight, call Frank Mumaw, son of Mrs. Salinda Mumaw, to come and quell the disturbance. Mr. Mumaw was sitting in the front room, fronting on Pine street, when he was called. He went into the kitchen immediately on receiving Miss Weaver's summons, and after remonstrating with the Italians to no purpose he undertook to put them out of the house. Frank took hold of the most demonstrative of the party, opened the door and shoved him out on the street. Just as this was done the other Italian moved quickly toward the door and as he was in the act of going out in an apparently peaceable manner he turned suddenly and plunged a stiletto into Mumaw's left side, below the armpit. Mumaw staggered back and went into an adjoining room where his mother was sitting, and exclaimed, 'My God! I'm stabbed.' His mother assisted him into a front room and placed him on a lounge. Dr. E. K. Brundage soon arrived and after examining the wound pronounced it fatal. Arteries on the left side had been severed by the knife thrust and death took place about an hour after the stabbing...
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Hazleton Plain Speaker; Saturday, September 8, 1888:
The remains of Frank Mumaw, who was stabbed nearly two years ago, were yesterday taken up and interred in the family plot in Vine street cemetery. The casket was as solid as the day it was put in the ground.