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T H E E v E N l N o -‘Hr..A zn.'l‘.-'lf' a
MARIE BdlllRIAGAIN.
The Second Trial of the Unfortunate
Italian Girl Begun.
KILLED FAITHLESS LOVER.
On the First Trial Marie Was Convicted
and Sentenced to Death In the
Electric Chair—Slow Progress
In Obtaining Jurors.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—hiaria . Barber-i
was placed on trial for her life today for
the second time. It is but a year and a
half since, with the death sentence ringing
in her ears, she was led from the court of
Recorder Gsi‘, a. low, ignorant woman, il-
literate, hardened by vicious surroundings
and obstinate in her belief that in killing
her faithless lover, Domenico Cataldo,.shc
but exerc! and a right.
She has changed since then. Her very
looks, as she stepped into the criminal
branch of the supreme court today, showed
that she has been surrounded by Softening
influences, even though her home has been
a prison cell. Herdigure was more erect,
her step fi :ner, her face clearer and its
lines softer. Her eyes fearlessly met all
those turned upon her. She came to her
second 'trial confident that she would be
acquitted; she went to her first hopeless
and friendless, unable even to make her:
self understood except through an inter-
preter. Today she has powerful friends,
for 50,000 women signed the petition to
Werner Morton to grant her clemency;
she’spoke to those about her in English,
which lanugage she has learned to read and
White with considerable ease. The year
tits young woman spent in Sing Sing,
while the appeal from the sentence of death
was pending, was an education to her.
Under the care of Mrs. Sage, the warden’s
wife, and many other charitable women
who became interested in her case she was
taught to read and write, and there was
awakened in her a desire for knowledge.
The result has been a surprise even to
her closest friends. They declare that she
has come to a realization of the wrong she
connnitted and has expressed her regret for
it and a hope that in the future she will
have an opportunity to retrieve herself.
Liarie Barberi's Defense.
I As to the defense that will be made in
her behalf her lawyers, Fred House and
Emanuel Friend, have refused to talk. At
the last trial her counsel, Amos Evans,
endeavored to prove that the girl was in-
sane at the time she killed Cataldo. The
evidenbe showed that she was an ignorant
girl; that when she had been in this coun-
try but a year she was ruined by Cataldo,
a. low Italian, and induced to leave her
parents and live with him. He promised
to marry her, and when she demanded the
fulfillment of his promise he laughed at
her and told her that “only pigs married. "
Goaded almost to madness by his treat;
ment of her, on April 24, 1895, she con-
fronted him in a saloon at 428 East Thir-
teenth street, and after he had again re-
fused to marry her me out his throat
with a razor. At the trial, which occurred
in May, she pleaded temporary insanity as
an excuse for the deed, and when the story
of Cataldo’s faithlessness was known much
sympathy was expressed with her. But
the recorder’s charge so prejudiced her case
that she was found guilty and was sen-
tenced to death. Before the governor had
an opportunity to act on the immense pe-
tition for clemency which was presented
to him the court of appeals reversed the
case on account of erorrs in the recorder’s
charge and ordered a new trial. That
action was taken on April 22, and since
then the young woman has been in the
Tl‘ombs.
It was naturally suggested by the last
trial that the defense this time would be
insanity. But on this point Mr. House
said:
“Our defense will rot be insanity. It
will surprise the pu ' 2 when our case is
disclosed, but I do no- "We to talk of it
now. Only twice before that I know of
has such a defense been interposed in a
homicide case. ”
Confident of Acquittal.
Mr. House further- said that he never
went to the trial of a homicide case with .
more confidence that an acquittal would be
iecured. -
When Justice Gildersleeve took his seat
on the bench in the criminal branch, the
Barberi case was at once called. The de-
fendant was brought into court by Mr.
Friend and Mrs. Foster. She wore a plain
but neat black dress and bonnet and step-
ped easily to her place at the bar and took
a cluir by her counsel, with whom she con-
versed in low tones. Assistant District At-
torney McIntyre and Deputy Assistant
Lautcrbach were present for the prosecu—
tion; In the space reserved in the court-
room for visitors there were about 100 per-
sdns, many of whom were Italians who had
contributed to the fund that is defraying
the expenses of the defense. In the course
of the call of the jury panel the defendant
Was taken ill and had to leave the room for
a. few minutes. She returned in time to
liear Mr. McIntyre move the trial of the
case. Mr. House informed the court that
the defense was ready- to proceed.”
The work of getting a jury then began.
Jonathan Nathan of 6 West Fifty—first
street was the first talesman examined.
The prosecution had hardlvl" ned his
name and addres. when they put to him
the two pivotal questions: Was he opposed
" to capital punishment and had he scruples
against finding a'wcmau guilty of a' crime
punishable with death? ‘
'l‘ he work of jury getting progressed very
slowly, owing to the numerous discussions
by counsel.
Baltimore and Ohio Directors.
Business, Nov. 17.—Thc annual meet-
ing of the stockholders of the B. and O.
railway was held here today. Reverdy
Iohnson of Baltimore acted as chairman.
l‘lzc following directors were elected: From
Baltimore, “William F. Frick, James L.
Melanin, Geg‘ge C. Jenkins, Alex Shaw,
lx‘mrgc A. Von Lingen, Maurice Gregg,
William H. Blackford; from New York,
Louis Fitzgerald, Eugene Delano, Edward
K. Bacon, William A. Read, Howland
Davis.
Yamagata a Grandfather.
OAIgLAXD, Cal, N 0v2 17.—A cablegram
sent by D. S. Richardson of this city bore
h Marquis Yamagata, field marshal of the
imperial Japanese army, the good tidings
blast there had been born to him a grand-
son. The mother was Mutsuko Yamagata,
the only child of Marquis Yamagata. " She
is 18. The father is Mr: Funakoshi, vice
consul in this city.
Ralded by Dex-wishes.
SUAKIN, Nov. 17.—Dervishes have raided
the country in the, vicinity ‘of Tokar, kill-
ing five men and stealinga number of cat;
tie. Troops have been sent in pursuit of
the raiders.
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WEEKLY N. Y. TRIBUNE.
Both Pacers Sent to one Address
‘ for $I.OO a.Year
‘ used toward me.”
DEPEW owns ANVOPERA HOUSE.
He May Now Add \Vrltlng Plays and Bill
Posting to His Accomplishments.
“Now that I have a theatre of my
own, I should like nothing better than
to be an active theatrical manager,”
said Chauncey Depew, Mth a’twdnkle
in his eye, when asked regarding his
acquisition of the Depew Theatre. The
theatre in question is the opera house
of Peekskill, and Dr. Depew bought it
under foreclosure proceedings.
“When I first put money into it I had
no idea of going in so deeply,” he. said;
and then he added, “but if I hadn’t
gone in, I would never have owned a
theatre all by myself. Now.I should
like to give up this desk and give my
entire attention to a theatrical com-
pany! ‘ '-
Peel 5. 311 is Dr. Depew’s birthplace.
Two .3 an dred and thirty years ago an
ancesz purchased a farm there, and
over S .. .: it has been the home of the
Dcpcu - And so when, ten years ago,
{1- Com]; ttee of his native townsmen
waited on him and asked him to sub-
scribe toward the building of an opera
house that would be a credit to the
town, he put down his name for $1,-
500.
The building was planned to cost
$30,000, and $18,000 was raised by a
mortgage given to the Peekskill Sav.
ings Bank. It was found later that
$60,000 would be needed, and Dr. De-
pew was asked to come to the pro-
jectors’ assistance.
“If I hadn’t, I should certainly have
lost what I had already put in,” said
he, “and should have left a half—built
failure to face the streets of my native
town. And so I gave $20,000, and took
a second mortgage. That was five
years ago, and I have never received
:1 cent of interest, for the venture has
not paid financially. At first it was
called the Peekskill Opera House, but
after that second mortgage they called
it the Depew Opera House. Altogether,
I have put $45,000 into it. '
“I think now I must turn my atten-
tion to writing a play. I have made ad-
dresses on every conceivable subject
of human interest; I have written es—
says, historical articles, novellettes and
short stories. But,”———and there wasa
humorous wistfulness in his voice—-
“I have never tried to write a play,
and I shall certainly never have a bet-
ter chance of staging it.”
The house was dedicated on Sep-
tember 15, 1892, and people stood in
line for an entire day waiting for a
chance to buy tickets. “Jim the Pen-
‘man,” was played. Dr. Depew deliv-
ered an oration.
“I played to a full house that night,”
said he. “As a manager I have experi-
ence, too. On my trip across the
ocean last summer the Daly Company
was on'board, and we got up an en-
tertainment for the Fourth of July,
which was repeated for the second
cabin, and for the steerage. I was
manager of the arrangements.”
Dr. Depew considers his new role a
great joke. But there is abusiness
side to it, also, for he says he has not ,.
assumed it for fun.
YE OLDEN DAYS.
Trials and Tribulations of the Revolution-
ary Dames.
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, in her “Wo-
men of Colonial and Revolutionary
T/imes," gives an account of the tribu-
lations of Puritan housewives at that
period. One extract expressed in the
quaint language of the period will
touch a sympathetic cord at the present
day. It relates to experience with a
domestic, told in the' letter of a newly
married woman to her mother. The
writer acquaints her parent with the
great affliction that presses upon her
through the vicious conduct of a maid.
When the latter first came to service.
she, as is not unusual, aroused expect-
ations that a treasure had been discov-
ered. In a short time, however, she
was revealed in her true light, and,
according to the young bride, devel-
oped “such a head, and is growen so
insolent that her carriage toward us,
and especially myself, is insufferable.”
If she be ordered to do a certain thing,
she bids her mistress to do it lerself;
she delights in telling how well she
can perform her duty if she is so
minded, but will not through perver-
sity. The daughter recoils from re-
peating to her mother “all the reviling
speeches and filthy language she has
The lady’s hus-
band, who is apparently a man of deep
Christian convictions and bearing,
comes to the rescue and endeaVors to
reason with the recalcitrant maid. He
is assailed with a vocabulary unfit
even for record in a private letter. He
retires discomfited, and seeks consola-
tion presumably in prayer. A corres-
pondent, who some four or five months
ago engaged a kitchen maid in an iso-
lated rural locality, encountered the
same experience as the Puritan house
wife of a hundred and fifty years or
more age, although in this case the
man of the house was not of a meek I
and lowly temper, and brought the
lightning rod almost to the melting
point through the fervor of his lan-
guage.
‘ Why He Objected.
“So, you do not. think a. minister
ought to ride a bicycle?”
“No; I didn’t say that at all. But I
do ”think he ought not to tackle it un-
less he is sure his religion can stand
the strain of 1earning.”—Boston Trans-
cript.
\‘l'hcu in Doubt, Play Trumps.
“I don’t know,” cried the Excited
Feminine Voice in the Darkness,
f‘whethcr you are my husband or a
burglar, but I‘m“ going to be on the
safe side and shoot.”——Detroit Trib-
une. _
No Ear for Music. -
“Miss Yam ‘sn’t at all musical.”
"‘Huw do you know?” ‘
"i offered to sing ‘Oh, Promise Me,’
insomnia. and she said she’d: promise
allyilllllg if I wouldn'u _ _»
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Colored Murderers. Captureu.
HENDERSON, ,Ky., Nov. 16.—All of the
seven colored men implicated last night in
shooting Mr. Metzner were captured to-
day. The masked men entered the, grocer?
store of Lang & Metzner, flourishing weap-
ons, and ordered Mctzner to give up all
he had. Although Mctzner threw up his
hands, he was riddled with bullets. A
lynching was expected today, but three
of the negroes were rushed ofl clandestine-
ly to Pineville and four to Hopkinsville,
so that there is no longer any apprehen-
sion of violence.
A Chapter of Fatal Accidents.
TORONTO, Nov. ~16.—There were many
fatal accidents in this city yesterday.
James German, aged 7, was run over by a
wagon and killed; Georgiana Scott, aged
5, played with fire and was burned to
death; Miss Nanden tried to pass a motor
car on her wheel and fell and was fatally
injured; a trolley car and express wagon
collided, and both motorman and driver
were injured so badly that they will die.
Jobbery In London.
LONDON, Nov. l6.—-The account of the
public works department of the London
county council have been falsified, and the
report of a committee appointed to inquire
into the matter declares that jobbery has
been systematically and freely practiced
since April, 1895. As an outcome of the
inquiry .the head officials of the public
works department and other officials will
be dismissed. ‘
Dead on the Tracks.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Nov. 16.—-—'l‘he
dead body of a tall man with light hair
and eyes, nicely dressed, was found yester-
day on the railroad track. He evidently
had been thrown or had fallen from the
train. In his black derby hat was stamped
the name of John W. Looder, 113 Broad-
way, St. Louis, and in the watch pocket
of his trousers was marked H. G. Hall,
St. Louis.
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’ Testimonials
concerning the Bay State Furnace we have
without number from every State and every
County in every State in the Union.
Sixty years of success brings with it thou-
sands of letters indicating that the Bay State
Furnaces do all the work required of them.
We have a. book containing very many in-
teresting testimonial letters.
Barstow Steve (20.
/ FOUNDRIES—Providencc. R. l.
, One Unsettled Point.
An old man who bore evidence of
more Work than culture approached
a representative of a free silver pa-
per the' other day in the State Li-
brary. , g, -
““Can I ask you a question?” . fir
“Certainly.”
, “Well, if we have free silver coin-
age, we’ll all have more money, won’t
we?” -
“Why, yes, certainly; that’s easy to
answer.” ‘ ‘ ,
“Well, what I want 'to know." said
the old father, earnestly, “ is wheth-
er they will bring it to me Or whether
I’ll have to go after it." _
The Costly Lot. £1
Gadsby—“ThOse three dude sons of
Van Nostrand “cost him about $5,000
a. year.” ‘ ,
Miss Caustique—“Then he has been
putting a good deal of money into real
estate.” . ;
“How’s that?" ‘ l
“He is spending $5,000 a year on a
vacant lot.”—-—Brooklyn Life. .
Our Great Impressionist.
“What'd‘o you suppose impressed Li
Hung Chang more than anything else
in America, Mr. Pilcher?"
“The fact that American wives are
so lively that a man can’t undertake
to manager but one at a time.”—I0hica-
go Record.
A. Patriarch,
Child (who has a. great idea of her
grandfather’s age)-—“I_ say, grandpa,
were you in the ark?”
Grandpa—“Why, no, my dear."
Child—«“Brt. grandpa, you must
have been, or else you would have
been drowned.”
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