Evening gazette, Thursday, November 19, 1896 · page 8

 

 

 

 

THE EVENING GA~Z~ETTE

 

 

THE inhuman

Conviction of the Italian Murderess
Demanded by the State.

OPENING OF PROSECUTION.

The Policeman Who Arrested the Girl
Tells of Heernaccountable Actions
Immediately After Killing
Her Faithless Lover.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Pa1e as death and
trembling like an aspen leaf, Maria Bar-
beri, clinging to the arm of a “Tombs
ange ,” walked unsteadily into part one
of the criminal branch of general sessions
today and took her seat before the 12 men,
tried and true, who will determine whether
her life shall be forfeited.

The trial of the girl who killed Domen-
ico Cataldo began in earnest today.

TWO days have been spent in impaneling
a jlfi’y, and the examination of the wit-
nesses was ready to begin.

Before court was called to order dark
vis'afged Italians began filing into the court-
room.

Many of them were witnesses, and oth-
ers had come to hear the testimony out of
curiosity.

Several well dressed women Were scat-
tered through the audience. They were the
morbid persons who think it their duty to
attend all trials where capital punishment
is likely to be inflicted.

They gazed curiously at the trembling
girl whose life is hanging in the balance,
and several of them gave occasional affect-
ed sobs.

Around the railing were seated many
lawyers. Their interest in the trial had
been aroused by the knowledge that an
unusual plea will be made by the defend-
ant.

Seldom, has the plea of moral incompe-
tency been made, and lawyers are anxious
to know whether such a plea will be suffi—
ciently strong to release a person who has
been indicted for murder in the first de-
gree, and who was only saved from sufi‘er-
ing the death penalty by a reversal of the
decision of her first trial by the court of
appeals.

The strain upon the prisoner is showing
plainly. Each day as she appears in court
she looks more wan than she did on the
day previous. .

Her sunken eyes, pale cheeks and blood—
less lips gave her a deathlikc appearance
today.

.At times she seemed almost ready to
faint, and then only the restraining and
soothing influence of Mrs. Foster was
sufi‘icient to arouse her to the present.

The Prosecution’s Opening.

The case for the prosecution Was opened
by Assistant District Attorney Lauterbach.

In his speech to the jurymen he cautioned
them to be careful not to allow themselves
to be influenced by prejudice.

He then told of the killing of Cataldo by
Maria in graphic language and tried to
show that the murder was committed be-
cause of the man’s refusal to marry Maria
or give her money.

“ That girl would have killed him before
April 26, 1895,” said the attorney, “had
she not been prevented from doing so by
her. mother. ”

“It was her desire to kill, and when
Cataldo left his home, at 424 East Thir-
tieth street, she followed him to a saloon
at 428 East Thirteenth street, and then
again demanded that he marry her.

“He was sitting at a table playing cards,
and turned again and refused to wed her.

“She seized him by the hair with her
left hand, drew his head back and slashed
his throat with a razor, almost severing
his head. ‘

“ Cataldo fell to the floor, but managed
to rise, and, clasping the gaping wound,
ran to the street and fell dead.”

The attorney then told how the woman
had coolly washed her hands and joined a
crowd of Italians in a near grocery.

“Gentlemen of the jury,” continued the
attorney, “there is but one verdict you can
render, and that is that the defendant has
been guilty of willful and deliberate mur-
der. ”

The First Witness.

Policeman J. H. Hays was the first wit-
ness called to the stand.

Hays testified that he was standing on
the corner of Fourteenth street and Av-
enue A at 10 o’clock on the morning of
April 26, 1895, when he saw a man run
down the street and fall dead, with a gap-
ing wound in the neck.

“I followed the trail of blood made by
the man who had fallen and traced it to
428 East Thirteenth street, to the saloon.

“I tried to get into the place, but it was
locked.

“Then I went to a grocery at No. 426,
where a number of persons were gathered.
I went into a back room of the store and
there saw Maria Barberi, surrounded by a
number of Italians. She was wiping blood
from her hands with a towel.

“She motioned to me, and I went with
her to the firstfloor at 424 East Thirteenth
street. A small boy was in the room into
which she took me.

“When we entered the room, the woman

took off her sack, which was bloody, and'

threw it out of the window into the
street.” .

The sack was then shown for identifica-
tion. It was a gray garment and was stain-
ed with blood.

“I then put the woman under arrest,”
continued the witness, “and later. turned
her over to Policeman O’Reilly, who had
joined me.

‘ ‘ Cataldo died almost immediately, ’ ’ said
Hays in answer to a question.

Policeman Hays was then closely cross
questioned by Lawyer House for the de-
fondant.

Witness testified that the prisoner was
very quiet and passive after being arreswd.

“It was not necessary to keep hold of
her or to handcufi‘ her,” he said. “She
did not speak once that I can remember. ”

' “Is it not your custom to try to learn
something of the crimes when you make
arrests for serious offenses?”

“It is.”

“Did you not move the woman from the
Eighteenth precinct station house to the
Fourteenth precinct station house after she
was taken to the first place by O’Reilly?”

L i Yes. 1 2

“Did she not speak once?”

. “She did not. She was very quiet. She
spoke to no one.”

“What was the demeanor of this defend-
ant When you were with her at the Four-
teenth precinct station?”

“She was , absolutely quiet. 'I can’t say
whether she was dazed or not.”

To Abolish Sugar Bountiu.

LONDON, Nov. 19.—The Chronicle’s
Vienna corrspondent says that Austria and
Germany are negotiating to abolish the
sugar bounties.‘

 

 

PITZSIMMONS’ BVASION.

Wants 3 Finish Fight and Doesn’t Like
John Kelly, Says Bis Manager.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19. —-When ad-
vised of the purse offered by the Bohemian
Sporting club of New York for a 20 round
contest between Fitzsimmons and Corbett,
Martin Julian, the Cornishman’s mana-
ger, said that the offer was not acceptable.
Fitz desires a finish fight and will not con-
sent to the selection of Honest John Kelly
as referee. Now that Dan Stuart has ob-
tained a concession from the Mexican gov-
ernment for athletic exhibitions, Julian
believes an opportunity should be given
him to match the heavyweights.

BOSTON, Nov. 19.——Begarding the offer
of President Genslinger of‘ the Bohemian
Sporting club of New York of a $25,000
purse forafight between Corbett and Fitz-
simmons, COrbctt said that he had replied
to the following effect:

“The club that ofl'ers the largest purse
by next Friday I will sign with. Your
club is' satisfactory to me if it offers the
best terms.” .

He had received telegrams, he said, from
Dan Stuart at Dallas and from Warren
Lewis of the Greater New York Athletic
club, saying that they wanted a chance to
confer with him before he signed with any
one. Corbett said he was surprised at the
offer; but, he added: “It goes if no one
beats it. How can Fitzsimmons refuse
that or anything better? He can’t crawl
away now, so far as I can see, although he
is pretty slick at the game. There will be
no hitch on my part. I’ll fight on two
weeks’ notice, as I have said, for anything
and anywhere. I’m not tied to Stuart,
Lewis or any one else. All I want is to
fight Fitzsimmons. I’ll fight Fitzsimmons
and retire. If he won’t fight I’ll retire
after I’ve shown him up to the public and
satisfied everybody that he is the cur I have
claimed he is. Honest John Kelly suits
me for referee. If he doesn’t suit Fitzsim-
mons, I’ll take George Siler of Chicago.”

“Assuming that Fitzsimmons does not
accept Genslinger’s offer—then what?”

“Let him accept any other. I don’t
care what it is, or where. If he prefers
Dan Stuart’s somewhere else, I’ll go there
for the same money that he does. It’s just
about as Fitzsimmons says. I don’t care
what he accepts! No matter what it is,
I’ll agree to it. As I said before, any time
within two weeks and anywhere. What
money satisfies him satisfies me. All I
want is to clinch a. match. I will divide
the $25,000 any way that it suits Fitzsim-
mons. ” .

EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 19.——Dan Stuart,
after a chase over the country, thinks he
has at last succeeded in securing a spot
where he may pull off any prize fight with-
out fear of police interference. That place
is on the Mexican side of the river, near
Paso del Norte. Backed by a syndicate of
American capitalists, mostly Texans, he
says he recently made a trip to the City of
Mexico, and there obtained a concession
that places him in indisputable possession
of a tract of land, on which he may erect
an arena, clubhouse, etc., make such im-
provements as he may decide upon' and
pull off his fights without interruption of
any kind. Stuart will now make a bid for
the Corbett—Fitzsimmons affair. ‘

It is further said that the syndicate will
guarantee money for purses, and that some
of the biggest mills in the history of the
prize ring will shortly be “scheduled.

WARNBD AGAINST SPEOULATION.

'Employees of Montreal Concerns Must
Let liIining Shares Alone.
MONTREAL, Nov. 19.—A leading bank
in this city has issued a circular to the
clerks in all its branches, drawing atten-
tion to the engagement made by each of
them on entering the bank’s service not
to ihvest or speculate in stocks. In view
of the large number of m ning shares now
being put on the market at exceedingly
low prices, the general manager has
thought it wise to remind his subordinates
that any speculation of this kind is strictly
forbidden by the terms of their engage-
ment, and that they must conduct them-
selves accordingly. The extent to which
the British Columbia mining craze took
hold of all classes in Toronto has given
concern to several large firms in this city,
and it is said that similar circulars have
been or will be issued, prohibiting the
clerks in these establishments from invest-v
ing in mining shares. '

-Presidents of Methodist Colleges.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—The Association of
Presidents of the 'Methodist Colleges and
Universities in the United States, in an-
nual convention at Evanston, has elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Henry Wade Rogers, North-
western university; vice president, J. T.
Gouoher, \Voman’s college, Baltimore; sec-
retary and treasurer, Samuel Plantz, Law-
rence university.

De \Vindt’s Journey Abandoned.

LONDON, Nov. 19. ——A letter received here
from Harry De Windt, dated Unwaidjik,
on the Siberian coast of the Siberian straits,
says he has been obliged to abandon his
proposed journey by land from New York
.to'Paris, as he finds that the straits are 40
miles wide at the narrowest point, and
that they are never frozen over. De Windt
expects to return in a Whaler toward the
end of the month.

Republican National Committees.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-——Secretary Mercer
of the Republican congressional committee
said today that there was practically no
further doubt that the committee would
continue active work during the next two
years and probably until 1900. Mr. Mercer
thinks that the national committee ulti-
mately will join the congressipnal commit-
tee in the maintenance of headquarters in
Washington.

Canadian Pacific Telegraphers.

MONTREAL, Nov. 19.——The Canadian Pa-
cific Railway Telegraphers, having satis-
factorily settled their grievances with the
company, it is said that an effort will now
be made to affiliate this order with the
great organizations to which the engineers
and conductors belong, which have their
headquarters in the United States.

Charles Leisner Appointed.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 19.—Char1es Leisner,
president of the Coopers’ Protective associ-
ation of Cincinnati, has just been appoint-
ed organizer of the International Coopers’
union. He was prominent in the recent
international convention at Evansville. He
will have his headquarters here.

Registered Mail Stolen In Paris.

LONDON, Nov. 19.—.—-The Post’s Paris v

correspondent reports that a man disguised
as a postman secured a bag of registered
letters of the value of 42,000 francs ($8, 400)
from a mail cart in the Rue d’Allemagne
and decamped. '

Business Troubles.
DULUTH, Nov. 19.—The S. B. Richards
Lumber company filed a voluntary aslign-
ment to the Duluth Trust company.

THE MANll‘tthANGLE

,The Vexed School Questions. Have
Been Quietly Adjusted.

 

BOTH PARTIES SATISFIED.

History or the Case Which at One Time
Promised Serious Results—The Most
Important Conditions of the
Final Settlement.

 

OTTAWA, Nov. 19.——The Manitoba school
question, which has more than once during
the past three years threatened a disrup-
tion of Canadian confederation, has been
settled on terms which, it is believed, will
be sufficiently satisfactory to both sides to
put an end to controversy. ‘

The school system of the province of
Manitoba had afforded an element of pro—
vincial discord ever since the admission
of the province into the Dominion, but as-
sumed its national importance only about
six years ago, when, by an act of the Man-
itoba legislature; all separate or denomina-
tional schoolswere abolished, so far as state
aid was concerned. A protest of indigna-
tion at once went up from the Roman
Catholics of the province, who at the time,
as now, constituted a minority of the pop-
ulation, and the cry was re-echoed from
. the Catholics of Quebec. The Quebec hier-
archy entered into the fray, and in vigor-
ous language from the pulpit denounced
the abolition of separate schools. The
French Catholic press became very bitter
over the matter, and some of the more out-
spoken papers openly advocated a recourse
to arms to protect what they considered
their rights under confederation.

The case was taken from the supreme
court of Manitoba to the supreme court of
Canada and finally to the last court of re-
' sort, the English privy council. The lat-
ter decided that the Catholic minority of
Manitoba had a grievance, but suggested
no relief. Meantime an intenselv bitter

The question' was made a leading issue of
the last federal elections, and. though
neither party dared make any definite pro-
nouncement of policy, the general belief
that the Conservatives, under Sir Charles
Tupper, would attempt coercion of the
Manitoba majority led to the defeat at the
polls of that party for the first time in 20
years and the election of Mr. Laurier, who
promised, if elected, to settle the question
in six months and to the satisfaction of
both Protestants and Catholics.

Terms of Settlement.

Following are the main features of the
terms of settlement, which has been ac~
ccpted by the Manitoba government and
will be embodied shortly in an act of the
legislature of that bcniy—viz: a

All schools are to be national, under
provincial control and subject to the same
regulations and inspection. v

The same textbooks will be used, and
all teachers will be properly qualified by
passing the provincial examination and
taking the prescribed normal school course.

School work of a purely secular charac-
ter will occupy the whole of the school day
except the last half hour, when the repre-
sentatve of any religious denomination
will be allowed to come in and instruct the
children belonging to his denomination,
provided the parents are willing to have
them remain. In cases where the people
decide not to have this religious instruction
the regular school work will go on until
the close of the school hours. ‘

The principle of local option is recognized
throughout.

The proviso that is intended to make the
schools acceptable to the minority is that
districts having an average attendance of
25 Roman Catholic school children shall be
entitled to have a teacher of their own de—
nomination, who must be fully qualified
according to provincial national school
standards.

In districts where the children speak
French wholly they are to have a teacher
speaking both English and French, so that
they will learn English as rapidly as possi-
ble. The readers used in such schools will
be bilingual, so that the children will grow
up from the first accustomed to English.

General von Gossler Derided.

LONDON, Nov. l9.—A dispatch to The
Mail from Berlin describes General von
Gossler‘s debut as minister of war asa
complete fiasco. “A more incapable speak-
er,”.the dispatch says, “is hardly imagi-
nable. His awkward pauses were filled in
with derisivc laughter and hisses.” The
Berlin correspondent of The Times says
that General von Gossler cannot be con-
gratulated upon his part in the debate in
the reichstag. -

The Election In Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19.—County At-
torney C. O. Whittemore has handed down
an opinion of the legal status of the recent
election. It declares that the ballot was
not a secret one as defined by the provisions
of the constitution, therefore the election
itself is “absolutely invalid and is, in fact,
no election.” The board of canvassers is
advised, however, that the county clerk
must issue the certificates of election.

Yale Kickers Confident.

NEW HAVEN, Nov. 19.—On the Yale
campus today there was evident today an
air of supreme confidence in the ability of
the Yale football eleven to wrest the vic-
tory from Princeton on Saturday. The
confidence referred to is undoubtedly due
to the phenomenal showing made by the
varsity eleven yesterday afternoon.

 

Coal Miners on Strike.
BELLAIRE, 0., Nov. 19.-—The Belmont
coal mines are closed, the miners having
struck for their old wages, 61 cents.

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