More information on the Luigi Luponio murder

Several additional articles have been discovered concerning the murder of Luigi Luponio.  The news spread throughout the state even being picked up by a newspaper in Lowell Mass. One interesting fact that was not known by me earlier is that Luigi Luponio was actually a railroad worker (#213) working on the West Shore Railroad.

An excerpt found on this website on 1/21/2015 ...

Building of the West Shore had many impacts on the growth of Central New York, Utica, Syracuse, and many other communities. 

Farmers benefited greatly from the railroad as they began to grow more and more crops for faraway markets. 

Between 1850 and 1895, nearly a dozen smaller railroads originated in the region or passed through it ... including the West Shore. Many of the workers who built the West Shore in 1883 were Italian immigrants who liked what they saw in Utica and ... like the Irish who had built the Erie Canal 65 years earlier ... decided to settle in the city.