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description of the location of the shooting as being just outside the DiFrancia Saloon in Louisville matches with the location of today's 740 Front restaurant. Martello was said to have dropped dead at the front of the saloon, and Carlo Tomoro took off. Filomena Tomoro denied any knowledge of her husband's whereabouts. According to newspaper accounts accessible at the websites of Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection and GenealogyBank.com, the two men had a contentious relationship and had been drinking and arguing. Nick Martello was buried in the Columbia Cemetery in Boulder. The June 26, 1908 issue of the Lafayette Leader stated, "The shooting occasioned little excitement. There is a large foreign element in Louisville, and fights and cutting and shooting scrapes are not uncommon. Very little attention is paid to these disturbances, and arrests are seldom made, it is stated." Only two months later, in August 1908, Filomena Tomoro sold the house and property to Nicholas LaSalle. No additional information about either Filomena or Carlo could be located. With respect to the date of construction of the house at 1133 Main, the 1948 Boulder County Assessor card for this property and the Boulder County Assessor's Office website both give 1908 as the date of construction of this house. Boulder County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to the date of construction of Louisville buildings, so it is important to look to other evidence of the construction year. For Louisville properties, Boulder County typically based the dates it gives on its website on the 1948 Assessor card information, and in looking at the card for this specific property, it can be seen that the handwriting states that the house was "40+" years old in 1948. This indicates a lack of certainty of knowledge about the exact year and suggests that the Assessor thought that the house could have been constructed earlier than 1908. In this case, Filomena Tomoro purchased the lots in January 1904, and this was the only property in Louisville that she or her husband owned at the time. Also, the 1904 Louisville directory lists a Carlo "Tomaso" and his wife as living in this subdivision of Barclay Place, with the typing of "Tomaso" likely resulting from the misreading of handwriting of the Italian name of Tomaro or Tomoro. But perhaps the most persuasive piece of evidence is the chattel mortgage filed with the County in 1904 that describes the house on the property at what is now 1133 Main as being a three-room house containing personal belongings that provided the security for the loan of money. For these reasons, the date of 1904 is believed to be the accurate date of construction. Evidence of it having been constructed even earlier could not be located. 2