Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 12

12 o - THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTOXN, D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER MOTHER AGQUITTED OF AVENGING SON F'Shot Boy’s Slayer While i Temporarily Deranged, New i York Jury Finds. 4 ¥ By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 23.—A zrief-stricken mother, who avenged fiho death of her son by tracking down ana killmg a man after the police had failed to locate the slayer, was {free today, having been acquitted on ¥the ground of temporary insanity. { Mrs. Josephine Cagnino, 45, was tried for murder in the first degree. She shot Andrea Ficarelll, who, “although indicted, had never been farrested for the murder of Mrs. agnino’s son, Ignacla, six years ago. 'he jury returned its verdict late lvesterday, after two hours’ delibera- tion. Mrs. Cagnino’s son was shot in New York's “Little Italy” while he was dressed In church regalia, leading a religious procession. Her son and Ficarelll had been friends. Mrs. Cagnino broke down several ‘times when telling her story in court. Testimony was given to show she hiad brooded over her son’s death and the failure to arrest Ficarelli. Final- 1y she waited at the same place where her son was killed and shot Ficarelli to death 3 by after partici- pating In : religlous proces: sion. Judge Levine sald in his charge that if the jurors found Mrs. Cagnino had been suffering from a delusion that God had commanded her to kill Ticarelli in revenge for her son’s mur: Aer they should acquit her. CREW REFUSES TO QUIT HELPLESS SCHOONER Vessel Without Sails Sighted Off Cape Sable by Fish- ermen. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 23.—News of the distressed condition of the two- masted schooner W. T. Bell of Nor- folk has been brought here by the fishing schooner Gossoon, Capt. Nor- ris. The Bell was sighted last Sunday 45 miles southeast of Cape Sable, with sails lost and in an apparently help- less condition. Its crew of four men refused the Gossoon's offer to take them off and announced their deter- mination to stand by their ship. The Bell bound from New York to Halifax with a load of coal. It was formerly the Tail-of-the-Shoe lightship, stationed for many years in Chesa- peake Bay, marking the shoal of the same name. Ex-Kaiser Abandons Liquor. DOORN, December 23 (). —The for- mer Kaiser of Germany, who before the war always patronized a famous brand of champagne, is now drinking lemonade in the interest of economy. He insists that his staff do so, too. e sl e Tusitala was the Samoan name of Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer. From 10:30 to Midnight will be broadcast—thousands of miles—to millions of people—who will listen in—and who are invited to join in the singing of the Carols in this most unique heralding of | Chairman “Moore of the FINE ARTS GROUP WOULD SAVE NEW BUILDINGS FROM SMOKE Commission Asks Heating Systems That| Will Reduce Soft Coal Ravages. | Fort Myer Seeks Advice. Abatement of the smoke and soot fiel of the future here in the District | highly skillful effort. nuisance, as it applies to the possible | of Columbia. The question, therefore, | Plant goes in and it proves to be a | injury to the public buildings to be |is one of getting adequate furnaces in smoker, remedying the condition is constructed in the triangle south of | Pennsylvania avenue between the Capitol and Fifteenth street, has | aroused the Commission of Fine Arts. | The possibility of making Washington | even a more smokeless city than it is under present ordinances is to come | up in the discussion of the public building program scheduled for the | next meeting of the commission, Jan- uary 6. . | Commission officials, after a thor- | ough study of the question of burni soft coal in Washington and af conferences with authorities of the | Bureau of Mines, are convinced that | the remedy for preserving public | buildings and monuments from de facement by soot and smoke lies in | more efficient methods of burning soft | coal rather than in more drastic smoke | 'aws or in a recommendation that anthracite, a practically smokeles: fuel, be used by the Government. The entire question has been brought again to the attention of the commis sion by a request from Maj. U. M Diller, quartermaster at Fort M seeking the advice of the fine body on the possibility of ¢ monuments in Arlington Cem: soft coal is burned at Fort Myer. Maj. Diller told the commission he | had been ordered to burn soft coal. | Should Adjust Furnaces. i “The Commission of Fine Arts,”| commission | wrote Maj. Diller today, “after quite | a thorough examination on the ques- tion of burning soft coal in the Dis- trict of Columbia and in Government | buildings generally, as come to the | conclusion that soft coal is to be the Fully Warranted Clectrical Appliances Make Wseful and Nl Ornamental Oifts cases of Colds, Neurnlgia, Colle, ete. Price’ an, Electric_Vibrators Yolet Ray .- Heating Pads Rent a Johnson Floor he Home Stsatiic Shop Joseph D. Just Below F Street .CHRISTMAS CIROLS - Tomorrow Night ~ The Christmas Carol Chorus Christmas. Tune in on WRC and Join in the Chorus The Carols to be sung—words and music—and the entire program will be printed in The Carol Booklet Distributed Free With Foening Star Tomorr;)w-—Friday, Deec. 24th | celved from the Bureau of Mi; which to burn soft coal without mak- ing so much smoke as to be both un economical and destructive of public buildings and monuments. This can be done provided the furnaces are constructed with plenty of air room above the burning coal, and provided also that firing is carefully done. “If Fort Mye furnaces should be adapted pal. Otherwise the de- pvernment monuments will more than offset the saving in the burning of the smoke-producing woal. The commission will be glad to o into this matter with you fully.” On the basis of the information re- s that ! oft can be burned without exces ve soot or smoke, the commission will urge that provision be made for burning sqft coal in the heating equip- ment of the buildings in the triangle. The position of the commission is that the Government should not spend bout $150,000,000 for public buildings over a period of v install ineffl- ient heating plants and see the build- ings defaced by soot and smoke re- sulting from inadequate heating equip- ment. Acids released in smoke and soot have a harmful effect on soft- then its to burn soft struction of OIN THE J CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB OF THE FEDERAL-AMERICAN “Everybody’s Doing It” “ Electric Waffle Irons, $6.50 up Waxer—$2.00 a Day Campbell s to burn soft coal, | | intelligent operation, stone surfaces and may cause disinte- gration, commission officlals have as- certained. The remedy for smoky conditions lies in installation of a non-smoking plant, according to O. P. 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