The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 2

— Occult CONFESSED MURDER __ IN ITALY BEFORE HIS ARREST Slayer Admitted Crime to Wife's Relative Soon ing person to me, Q. And you thought it had been entered in the record book? A. Yer, I thought Brown had done it, That's what routine requires. Flanneily said that if a missing gir! had been reported to him at midnight he would have “done something” and would have put it in the record. A. [ just threw it on his desk. Judge-Wadhams in the Court of General Sessions issued an order to- day transferring Mra. Cocchi from Harlem Court Prison to an institution whore her one-year-old baby bas been cared for since her arrest, The baby \s iM and Mrs. Cocchi, from worry over the child's condition, Is approaching 4 | state of nervous coll they come to the conclusions they state? A. I don't know It's the duty of the clerical men to go over the reports. Q. Do they ask detectives how they learn, for Instance, that “John Smith went off In a boat?" A,T don't know. I've seen the clerical men talking with the detectives, -| STRAUS DEMANDS FACTS Says Railway Company's Estimates second payment of 18 per ceht. for/20 per cent. is due July 30. subscribers to the Liberty Loan who | believed one-fourth has been bought bonds on the installment pian/The engraved bonds probably was due to-day, The next payment of ready next week. AT TRANSFER HEARIN Are More or Less “Hypo- thetical.” iE. vis TOOK IT FOR GRANTED CASE HAD BEEN ENTERED. After Arrival—Ready to Pay Penalty, He Says Now, but Fights to Escape Chair Here. | 9. When Brown told you there was BOLOGNA, Italy, June 28.—Alfredo Cocchi has involved no NeW gian't you look it up in the record? York politicians or policemen in any part of his disjointed confession of A. 1 took It for granted It had been ~ A entered and telephoned down to the murder of Ruth Cruger, it developed here to-day, when off | Headquarters, I left it there just os s, rela- Q. It ian't your duty, in It? A. No, I've nothing to do with it. He added that all he did was countersign the reports, NOT CLERK'S BUSINESS TO GIVE POINTERS, HE SAYS. Thaddeus A. Neggeamith, a clerical pee. | Assistant District Attorney William Harmon Biack went to Washington to-day with Gov. Whitman's wafrant and request for Cocchi’: He took to Washington also @ tran- seript of the facts in the case. If Coccht 1s returned without delay he extradition. “I will admit that for what it ie worth,” said Chairman Oscar 8, Straus of the Public Service Commission to-day a6 Alfred A. Cook, counsel for the Third Avenue Ratiway Company, handed in a ‘Dig sheet filled with figures intended to show materials purchased and the cost of the same based on unit prices. ‘The commission was continuing the tives and friends of the Cocchis were questioned, The authorities say his confession has been but half made and that tm- portant detatis are wtlll missing. “1 feel myself acquitted morally, but 1 am ready to undergo the legal pen- alty of my country,” Cocchi Is quoted as saying to the interrogating Judge at the last questioning of the pris- oner, Yesterday, however, Cocchi, ac- cording to reliable authority, sent out this message to a friend: “1 am guilty, and I want to pay the penalty. Why spend your money on a Tuwvyer. I won't see him.” There ts no doubt in the minds a anybody here who is watching the case that Cocchi has a horror of a nentence to death by the American eietric chair, ‘This abhorrence ts shared by all his friends, and they, with the prisoner's relatives, are Starting a fund to fight proceedings for his extradition, Meanwhile new efforts are being thade to raise the question as to Whether Cocch!'s mental condition Is normal. “Iam not prepared to say if C Prof. Augusto Murri, Italy's famous nerve specialist, to the correspondent) yesterday, “The prisoner is now physically in bad condition and mentally weak, Although the has spoken of suicide he hasn't the cour age to commit it, or to make @ seri- ous effort to escape.” RELATIVE OF WIFE WRUNG CON- FESSION FROM COCCHI. M. Baronein, # brother-in-law of| Cocchi’s wife, revealed to- hice bbovroalet that he MORE POLICE STUPI (Continued from First Page.) should bé done to change police ads ministration methods which cailed for the payment of salaries of $2,260 @ year to desk lieutenants in branch detective bureaus, whose only work seems to be answering telephone ealls, taking complaints and entering them more or less intelligently In a record book, * One of the mgat important wit- nesses summoned tn the Investigattun ia Mrs. Grace Humiston, the Cruger family's attorney, whose persistence im the face of police rebuffs and ob-| stacles resulted in disclosing the fate of Ruth Cruger and the finding of her body in Cocchi's cellar, Mra. Mumiston will probably be called to the stand to-morrow, When Mra, Alfredo Cocchi is to bg called has not yet been determined. The first witness to-day was De- tective Sergt. Francis A. Stainkam;. vf the Fourth Branch, who was on the stand late yesterday afternoon, He testified that he was on the Fourth Branch desk at 2.30 P. M. on Feb. 14 when a telephone call came from Ruth Cruger’s father, Q. What was the nature of this call? A. It was to say that Alfredo Cocehi's shop had been located as the last place Ruth Cruger had been seen alive. Stainkamp, in answering another series of questions, testified that de- tective Heutenants had nothing to do with the assignment of men to prose- cute an investigation, this being a matter in the hands of the command- ing officer WITNESS OUTLINES DUTIES OF 8 DESK LIEUTENANTS. Q What do desk Heutenants do? A. They receive complaints and enter them tn the proper record book? Q. What's so diMcult about taking complaints and entering them that requires the intelligence of a man re- ceiving $2,250 a year? A, That's not all Heutenants have to do. They t | first obtained a confession from the murderer. “When Cocchi returned to Bo-! logna,” Baroncin sald to-day, “I sus- pected at first that he had harmed: his wife and ehildren and fled from | America, But presently some of our family received a letter from his wife | in which she mentioned the disap- pearance of a girl. My suspicions were then changed, I thought Coccht had departed with the girl, abandon. | ing his wife, | “I couldn't get Coceht to talk at first, but a little later I took him out to dinner one evening, and by getting him drunk finally got him to confess! Ahe crime. He did not tell me ox- actly how it was committed, but hia maunderings indicated he had killed the girl while she was defending her honor, My belief ts she was choked to death. “Mrs, Cocchi's strange letters since February have led us to fear that her} mind was affected by long abuse of her husband and his dissolute bal. | its,” In direct contrast to Barocin's, story of @ confession by Cocchi, the accused man's father and brother in sisted to-day Cocehi had never told them anything of his crime, J. A. Grice, an American from | Paris, who was commissioned by Po- |lice Commissioner Woods of New| | York to make the trip here and en-| |deavor to obtain information con- cerning Cocchi, had so far been un-} | able to nee th to see the prisoner, DIV IN HUNT FORRUTH GRUGER|S SHOWN AT INQUIRY exercise judgment and give opin- Also! rE fons of suggestions upon cases, the men assigned come to them for advice, Lieut. John G. Flannelly, who haa Bureau and a detective for sixteen 180m 160, 360. years, testified that he had passed ee AY no civil service examination in pass at tty ae t | Ing from patrolman to lieutenant, It! Bs We vant 1 | wan by, act of Legislature that he tener int Ry | was made permanent sergeant and] Fi Woman. 108 13 AR alt | Also thus made Heutenant, He took | Grmitoy Conn Fin 4a ity ‘3 the Fourth Branch desk tour at 12.45|Gmat Nor’ om... Raat MQ MT — A.M,, Feb. 14, relieving Lieut. Hrown, | [pirat r 2 en a | | he said, and being in turn relieved ua ay by Lieut. Bennoit at 8.45 A, M. ay 8 Q. When you relieved Hrown, what ony — did he say to you? A. That there aya 8 was a missing person report in the ; | Wiig by basket Ky — 2 Q. Did he tell you the name of the HH % missing person? A. I don't remember. | National Co ae ae | Q. Say whether it was a man, | Sogda te BN 4 woman, adult or child? A. No, he! S. ¥. & ae + 8 said only there was a “missing per-| dni ue Mie” = ad son” In the basket | Satie @ eux 8 Q. Did you look in the basket for freerirenia rue Ss % tha missing person? A. No pilin” ie Wnt Va iy i" Q. Did Brown tell you anythir mae = 2g had done? A. No, i FS ad ri 2! a Anything ho had been asked to! Kes fet My iy — ip Q. Did he tell you to do anything | Ske fo «rare 3 or to find out anything about it? A./ Q" : PY YR BhY oa) No, not that T remember, wtteh iy 2 Ae 88 Q. Did you find any other “missing | ters ¢ aio am oy — at Flannelly testified he was not ac ‘sh iy we ig customed to talk with men assigned a {eat bel to cases, All he did in such « matter, 19 4 — 3 he sald, was to sign the reports the hoe ta 3 \ men turned in Then an office boy with a rubber asiamp might just as well put name on the reports? A. We any rubber atamps, ONLY CAPTAIN TAKES UP RE- PORTS IN DETAIL. your don't use the who does that? about cases and their reports, A. The captain goes over the reports about robberies fit I'd put it there myself. | years a Lieutenant, to investigations Cr « been four years in the Fourth Branch | co x Q. If you don't talk with the men He | It was for) the clerical men to make copies in the morning and bring them to the desk Meutenant for signature before | sending it downtown. Q. You didn’t even look at vad card? A. No Q. Did you tell Bonnoil, your relief, | that there was a “missing person” in| the basket? A. I don't remember. Q. Do you think the Cruger case got much attention? A. I won't comment on that. I wasn't concerned in it. Q. That's what you say, Lieutenant, but you didn't take any Interest in it? A. 1 took it for granted it had been | attended to Q. Lieut. Brown testified here that he had left full particulars of this! se with you. Do you remember that he did #0? A, No. I don't remember. | Q. Did Brown tell you to leave a memorandum on the hook for La- garenno? ,A, Not to my recollection. | Lieut. Maurice Bonnoll, for thirty-| one years a policeman and for sixteen | followed Fian- | nelly. It was he who relieved Fian-| nelly on the desk on the morning of Feb, 14 He was sure that neither Lieut. ! Flannelly nor Sergt, Willi, who took | the first report of Ruth Crugor’s dis- | appearance, had said anything to him | about @ missing person that morning. | He did not speak to his reltef, he| added, “‘because I knew nothing about any missing person Q. Whone duty is it to analyse the | reports ot detectives, to ask them how | CLOSING QUOTATIONS. | | With net cranes from previous cloning % a Allie Chalmer tog “a4 | Am. Age, ‘Remicai s itd ue 18 | toe ee: Sh iyo a a fo” TY = ah Aim: Men! jee “# rst fig = Py Ain: Bted oes f } $e: Rea er: oe at tee ee aS ty ay = ts tity A wee Wh HBR RS Taemmtive M+ Halt & Ohi. 4 144 Reside Steed 8 1918 12h id ‘By ‘By =" SP reeeeee res 2 | =" —-_ | DIVIDENDS DECLARED. | Books | Pats — — nd murders): ises—whe! ¢ ik and murder ses—when there | 1 iSnfe a DpieD. iw wpecial notoriety Nav Q. Does he talk with them about AKN ES. —Adelaide Jeph 18 years ° * BARNA—Adolaide Jecepbine, 18 ye8re| missing persona? A. I don't know. aad ates” Gaaaah @. Maraee 7 | Me's upstairs and I don't know what Boulevard, Jersey City, N. passed | he talks about v * errand P.M. Wedne June} Q. When you relieved Lieut. Brown Funeral private. Notice to retatives|@!4 he tell you that a man named nde of the family Inter- | Brown had ted a missing giri?| CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN wton, ory by pl 1a | M Q. Did he say anything about the| | Ties Oren. “Wah ow, cxrme, “thes ROPES. BOARS, C08P case being held in abeyance; that Mr.| Ri sam...) feo FRR HB BOL FOLEY.—CHARLES J., beloved husband | deems eeu MMi Me | Hrown would eall you later? A, Not MEN | of Mn (nee Coleman) and | YOM July. 184 ISTH ry 1a 4 brother Julia Sampso: jto my knowledy W7iy Rees: WOR 1G ag? 1478S friends are invited to| Q@ Flannelly, are you going to let |" 2 ios | nee, | anyboe pass the buc Oo you? enee, | anybody pass the buck to you? A.| NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. | on | Who, me? Nobody can pass any buck | July 26.90 2 26.58 June 29, at 0.80; thence to the |to me August 27.05 26.60 of Bt, Joseph the | Yas anything said to you about | Vt oe 36.08 26.15 «8 requiem mass will be offered Dec 26.30 be \@ general alarm for a missing girl? Jan. 22: 26.35 le the repose of his soul, +4 ata yih ; JA. I don't recollect tt, | Maren 19 26.63 | J ANNIE, belo of Dr. et closed heavy, off § to 30 po! Acme dil ved wife of Dr! O. Was anything said to you abour| *erket cl Xb oa, #£ 8080 points { Services THE FUNERAL cHURcH, |PUbMCHY In the case? A. T don't rec- ITEMS FOR INVESTORS, 1970 roadway, Campbells, Thursday ollect that it was, Amer n Car and Foundry Company, 230 P.M. | Q Haven't you been thinking a lot] Year end ii eye! Total pratite in MUKKAY,—-MARGARET MURRAY jabout this case? A, 1 hadn't done! increase, ance $8,210,871, Body lying in ataty, THE FUNERAL [anything wrong, why should I think | ¢ausl to 37.37 per a had MAURO, 1970 Broadway, about 82 Ne mon sonk, compared with B89 per cet Campbell's, bedy reported any muss ' | earned in ' previous. yeur. (was none of his duty to analyze the | the stand, flatly contradisted the tes- | employe in the Fourth Branch, with & record of thirteen years In the Police Department, testified that It will be placed on trial about Sept. 1, In case the Italian Government de- cides to hold him he can be placed on trial in Italy within {gure or five weeks, Licut. Funston made a report to-day of A police search of the cellar and backyard of @ house in West Twenty- seventh Street, which was recently closed because of a charge a st the occupants, Somebody told Grace | t Humiston, the lawyer, that the body of & woman was buried on the prem- ises. Four police detectives and a private detective employed by Mrs. Humiston | searched the place thoroughly. They | cos found nothing but @ truck load of reports of detectives as to facts or conclusions. He wes sure the had never suggested to a detective how jhe should investigate a case, but It ‘was part of his job to ask a detective | for the names of persons he had in- |terviewed in a case, Q. Did you ever read any+of Ser- geant Lagarenne’s reports? A. No. Q. Who reads his roporte? A. I don't know. They're signed by some| empty bott Lieutenant before they come to me. a Detective Sergeant Willl, recalled to AQUEDUCT RESULTS. Umony of Lieut. Brown that the latter) yypgt RACH—For, two-year-olds: had told him of reporting to Lieut.|selling, with $960 added; five fu Flannelly that additionol information —Btar ngied, 111 (Bur- 5, 7 to 10 and out, rydon, 118 (Troxler), 3 to 4, out, second; Pencille, 21 118 about Ruth Cruger’s disapp ance would be furnished by a Mr. Brown He said: “He couldn't have told me that, b cause I went to bed befdre Lieut. Flannelly came on duty, and I didn't see IAeut. Brown after that.” Q. Did Lieut. Brown tell you to as- sist Mr. Brown, who had reported Mins Cruger’s disappearance? A. No, he didn’t. Q. Did he tell you to go out with Mr. Brown?» A. Positively no, Q. Did he tell you to do everything | you possibly could? A. No, All I was told to do was to take the de- scription of the missing girl. aan, Mh ey Dito 2 and 6" te § won; St. Charlcate, 142 (Smoot), 7 to 2, 7'to band 7 to 10, second; Bryn Chant, 187 (Nicklaus), 20 to 1, 8 to 1 and 4 to 1, third. Time, 4.17 4-6. Hen- y IL, Kiepper, Tener, Captain Parr, Masterful, Florida, Iuminator and Marchena FIRST. RACE —M @ Malden, two- -year-old $400 added; five furlongs.—Sal- erling), straight $6.40, ; Ww $3.10, won; Miss Bryn, Q. Did he tell you to go to the oy Wei, wont Miss Bize. skating rink If necessary? A. No, lon: Hasty Mabel, 112 (Haynes), ‘show c be $1.20, third. 'TMme—1.02 4- ‘obrita, Q. Did you show Lieut, Brown the {i aincie, Kittewake, Garry Water. |card of description you made out? Tread Lightly II. also ran. 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