New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1924, Page 12

the of The door, mony. ed that the netitied the medics Sergeant MeAvay body, he weat quarters where en the the bloed and head resting in a pool chair across his legs. head was towards the bedroom according to the officer's testi- He investigated and determin- man was dead and then examiner. Leaving in charge of the back to police head- e tugned In a report affair and then went out in scareh of Colericco, who, Macri had told him was the man who had done the shooting. State’s Attorney Alcorn then ex- to the ness and had ever seen it be- said that it was 0 made to r and which 1 man in his d as to whether door, WITNESS DESCRIBES GIGENTI'S MURDER (Continued from First Page) Engineer's Testimony Ruled Out When the trial wus resumed yes- terday afternoon, the first witness to testify for the state was John of Windsor Locks, a civil engincer who was engaged by Statc’s Attorney Alcorn to draw a detailed map of the basement tenement in which the mur- der was committed. The floor drawn by Mr, Iagan had a cross on it which Mr. Fagan said indicated the spot on'the floor where Gigenti's head rested after he had been shot by Colericco. Another dot showed, ac- cording to the witness, the spot where the corner of the Kitchen table was. Attorney McCarthy entered an ob- Jection against thcese marks and Mr. Eagan's testimony and his testimony concerning them on the ground that it was hearsay. The court sustained the objection and ordered all the tes- timony regarding the location of fur- niture and the dead man's head stricken from the records. Attorney McCarthy then entered an objection to the admission of the map at all on the ground that the fact that the marks were on it when it was exhibit- ed to the jury, would have a tenden to prejudice them. Judge Maltbie re- fused to eliminate the map, but made ' a statement to the jury that they were to ignore completely everything on the map excepting the location of the doors, windows and the dimensions, Sergeant McCue On Stand Detective Sergeant Willlam P, Mc- Cue, who was the first man to enter the house after the police received the report of the killing and who con- ducted the police investigation of the case, was the next to testify. His tes- timony covered the period from the time the police received the report of the shooting from Antonio Macri, to the signing of a confession of the murder by Colericco in the detective bureau at police headquarters follow- | ing bis arrest. Sergeant McCue said that he was in the detective bureau at the station the night of December 6, and that at' 8:15 o'clock, Macri came rushing in and told him that Gigenti had been shot by Colericco. Sergeant Patrick |about a year ago and had asked him A. McAvay was in the office with him | tor it on scveral occasions. It al- at the time and both men went to the ‘| leged that Gigenti had denied owing North street house. Sergeant McCue |him any money on cach occasion and was the first into the yard and just |that six weeks before the killing of outside the door he picked up a coat | Gigenti, Colericgo made up his mind which was afterwards identifled as|to kill him because of Gigenti's alleged Colericco's. refusals to acknowledge the debt, It On entering the home, he saw the | contained the statement that he shot body of Gigenti laying parallel with | with the intention of shooting Gigenti onfession of Lim through an ir was signed by th presence, Questior any threats or promises were made to to get him to make. and confession, the witness an- had been made, and plan ricco the red that none that the ace hig own volition, The next witness to be heard was Vinenzo 1 26 Yawkins street, Ttalian interpreter for the local police. He said that he was called to the po- Jice station on the night of December 6, and acted interpreter for the police and Colericco and that the conf on was made through him. In arswer to questions by Attorney Me- Carthy, 1 ava said that he translat- ed the st nent word for word, and that Colericco told hira that he un- derstood perfectly everything that was contained in it all the state- ments were true. used made the confession voluntar he testi- fied, and did not seem to be nervous or excited in the least. Confession Ts Admitted. Attorney McCarthy entered an ob- jection to the admission of the con- fession on the ground that Colericco could not possibly be in any condition to make a confession and that he would be liable o say anything after such an evening when surrounded by police officers in the police station. He contended that it was a mere rgerap of paper to which no eredence !could be given. Judge Malthie over- ruled the objection and admitted the confession, Defense counsel {took an exception which the | crdered entered on the record. then recad the It said that as court Prosecutor Alcorn confession to the jury. . ' Why ManyWomen Give Much Thought to This Question Every woman will admit th: the most important ingredient for cake-making is the shorsem- ing she uses. used man had made it of | then Colericco had loaned $100 to Gigenti| ® - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924. through the head and killing him cross appearcd at the end of the con- tession and the names of Sergeant Mc- Cue, Scrgeant McAvay and Sergeant George C. Lliinger signed as witnesses, | McAvay Corroborates McCue, vay was called to the, stand after Lacava had completed his testimony and corroborated Sergeant McCue's testimony concerning the re- | ceiving of the report and going to the Louse. He said that he remained at the house with the body until the ar- rival of the photographer who took picturas showing the arrangement of the doors and furniturc, and Gigenti's tecdy on the floor. 1 Medical Examiner Waterman d at the house, Sergeant rched a trunk in a bed- rcom and found a number of bullets. He was shown ar: envelope containing bullets and told the court that they 1 looked like the bullets that he took irom the trunk, but that he/had not cxamined them closely betore he gave them to the medical examin and therefore could not positive entify them, Questioned as te what took place ai the station when Colericco made the confession, the witness said that it was made without any threats or! promises. He said that no pressure| wus brought to bear on Colericco in| cbtaining the confession. | He was missed and a short rv»-i cess wa | ney MeCarth ken by the court. Attor- tor the defense recalled | rgeant MeAvay when the attempted to have him set a time for different occur- rences that night. The witness was unable to testify as to the exact time of any of the happenings after Macri | entered the police station at 8:15] o'clock, at which time looked at | the clock. Atiorney McCarth ked | him if thers were any glasses, cigar- | | ettes or cards on the tables in the !’ house when he entered and McAvay answered that he did not notice any. In answer to another question, |said that he did not see any sign of | liquor anywhere in the hou Whan State's Attorney Alcorn called | Antonio Macri as the next witness, | cfense attorney requested that the alleged murderer be brought out ff the dock and placed where he could hear Macri's testimony. Judge Mal ¢ granted the request and Colericco was given a chair at the attorney’s table. He did not scem to be csted in the testimony and his ¢ shifted about from one object to an-| other, his posture remaining the same throughout the testimony. When Mderi was telling about the shooting of Gigenti, Colericco happened to be looking at him, but a sccond later {turned his eyes away and rested on | ore of the juryn.cn who was cleaning 'Lis glasses, Mucri testified through | ‘an interpreter so that Colericco could were on | | | | | | It is because of this, and the thought given to the matter, that Mazola has taken the place of butter in so many homes. ' L] L L] A housewife writes: “One diy 1 was making a cake for supper and discovered I had no butter to use for shortening. I tried Mazola, which is always in our kitchen for salad dressings, and I have never used any other shortening for cakes since that day. “My cakes ar¢ now better grained, light and never crumble. o as a feather “Of course, Mazola costs me less than butter, and 1 use 1{ to 14 less than amount named for butter.” That's the story about Mazola for shortening in the proverbial “‘nut-shell.” Yet, back of this growing popularity of Mazola for shortening is a very pleasant thought: s .’ . The source of Mazola is as pure, appetizing and wholesome as this delicious If you like “corn-on-the-cob” you can’t oil is itself, help liking Mazola. For this pure cooking and salad oil is made from the hearts of full-ripened corn—America’s Greatest Cereal. When you think of cake-making, think use it once and you will never go back to usi butter. of Mazola— ng expensive . AN IMPORTANT REMINDER “Mazola is as delicious and good to eat as the corn from which it comes.” L T A < I e i lmea), Macri was ¢ a time bedroom, minutes, Co |ut Gigenti and saw |the understand the testimony. es “Over in the Jail.” smiled throughout his stay witness stand and when asked where he lived, he' laughed outright and answered. “over in the jail.” Asked where he li it the time of the alleged murder, he said that he and eColericco lived together in the Lusement at 176 North street, where the shooting occurred. they Jived togother there for over a month and were great many years, having known cach other in Italy before coming to this country. He with Gigenti, who lived upstairs in the same house, Asked by cn Prosecutor Alcorn if he remembered the occurrences of De- cember 6 of last year, he laughed again saying, “Do 17 I'll neter what happened on that da told of how he had left the hou. carly that morning, Colericco remain- ing in bed as he was not working at the time. He worked all day on a trucking job and returned home at about 6 o’clock that night. Colericco was not in when he returned so he started in to make a fire in the stove to prepare the supper for himself and Colericeo. While he was making the fire Colerfeco returned, Deseribes Murder After building the fire, he started to preparc the supper and while he was doing it, Gig and asked them what they were hav- ing for supper, Maceri told him and invited him in but Gigenti told him he was going up to his owm tenement to eat. After they had finished the ning off the table Hu nd Gigenti came down again, walked in and sat down at Mae vitation, tuking a chair at the corner of the table, facng Macri and with his D bedroom door. Miic 5o and the two men talked out the neighborhood happen ings and other such affairs, according ,|to his testimony. While he and Gigenti were sitting there talling, Colericco went and took his pipe and started pacing the floor. Macri said that he continued this for and then disappeared into the After a lapse of about five ared at the Joor and Macri heard a shot and saw « flash from the doorway, He looked him falling back- floor. Thor- testified that he »at and ran from ward in his chair to the ighly scared, he bbed his over house HARTFORD We now have a direct telephone trunk line from New Britain. |nas a f He said that| on friendly terms for | was also friendly ! nti opened the door | ‘th He said that he stopped | munity &t a friend’s house first and then pro- | ing and being helped.” the Vassar Suicide Subject Of Talk to Students PoughKecpsic, N. Y., March 19.— Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, presi- in making public reference to the suicide of Miss Muriel Demarest, of Bloomfield, N, J., last night said: “How great @ propor- tion of the social there is in the life at v " said Dr. MacCracken, “this unfortunate death has ught home to all of us. No incident of its kind has occurred at Vassar for | nineteen years, and over six thousand | students have graduated in that time. Somehow the sacrifice of this life is up to us, in some way we failed, and did not give our fellow student sup- port that would have given her at®r courage. We must not fc wo are all mutoal 1t must be a great surprise to a| one to another, and that in our com- | hative of a foreign country when he | life we should go along help. | attains to 225 pounds and Rickard doesn’t grab him for a drawing card. | ceeded to the police station where he the two men Gigenti and Colesicco pdly “Hello,” Colericeo greeted Gigenti with when he entered. genti of Colericco playing for mone; 1 In answer to a question, he said that ~ Kansas City, March 19.—The finan- he had never heard them making any | clal affairs of Dr. Zoe Wilkins, wealthy | ft from two nights before. None of men drank any that night, he| once thewife of the late Thomas W. id. | Cunningham, aged banker of Joplin, or two children living in Italy. Asked |~ The slaying was revcaled when Mrs, if Gigenti was marricd he answered | ;. 1 palmer went to collect rent. in the affirmative. Asked how he| pr ‘\ilkins kept hidden in her Pl STOA Erotes murder is the belief of the po- althouugh several other leads she was not 50 prosperous. | As a student df osteopathy at Kirks- dent of Vassar college, ville, Mo., Zoe Wilkins, when 19, be- i 1. In 1916 she mar- Cunningham, the Joplin banker, after being his companion for two | Were Not Playing Cards | He said that they had not been pl; ing cards that night although bets or say that they would play for|,gyenturess in matrimony, are being | liquor. ey had wine at the house , Ay | delved into by the police in an effort Questioned by Attorney McCarthy | Mo, from whom she obtained more about his knowledge of Colericeo’s | than $300,000 before he divorced her, knew he was married and that heljomp securities worth more than was not just living with the woman | g100 000, according to Jesse James, ng developed. Dr. Wilkins spent lavishly after she | gan her matrimonial ventures. She marriced a fellow student named Dryer, | years. Her ehaufeur-companion, A. W, Marsheffcl, an automobile dealer Under cross examination by Attor- | ney McCarthy, Macri testified that the | only words that had passed between | \Dr. Zo¢ Williams Put Up Fierce had played on other occasions. He F l] [ Ll] said that he had never played him- | lg t lor (4 self, and that he had never seen Gi- occasionally, he testified, and he thought that there was some there the | to solve her mysterious and gruesome | night of the shooting that had been | murder discovered last night. Dr. Wil- | kins, 35, a practicing osteopath and private affairs, he said that Colericco | was beaten and slashed to death in a had given him to understand that he | (orrific fight in her home some time | , his wife and either one | gince Saturday night. supposcd to be his wife, Macri an- | po. apiorney. He said she lived in con- | swered “"How do I know? I'm not | : i e o " He said that ho w | stant fear of her life. | the, ma A Bt Do wils ‘That in Dr. Wilkins' tangled finan- induced her banker-husband to turn | over to her a large part of his wealth, | but lately therc were indication that from whom she separated in Texas about a year later. 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