The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1920, Page 3

i + DOWN ON SEEN TURE OF STE Murder Defendant. is Led Weeping From the Court Room. REPUTATION PRAISED Husband of Slain Woman Says He Had Not Séen Her For Nine Years, Maria Tyect broke down utterly Within a minute after she took the stand to-day to undergo crosseyamin- atio by Assistant District Attorney Talley in her trial for the killing of her sister, home March, When Mr. Talley handed her a pho- tograph and asked whether it showed Angelina Conti, in their in West Houston Street last ‘the position of her sister's body as she Temembered it the morning of the | shooting, Maria broke into a storia of Mrs. Bella Norton, Deputy once came forward and Maria was led, still loudly crying, from the court room. It was ten minutes before she was sufficiently composed to return. Meanwhile Dominico Zingale. a neighbor, and Eugene Fuggazy, 4 Bleecker Street banker, testitied to Maria’s good reputation. The husband of thé dead woman, Galvatore Conti of Newark, who,said he had never seen Angelina since he left her in Sicily nine years ago, tes- tified that he had married again four ago. He said he had received “a paper” in Italy telling him that Angelina need no longer look to him for support, and believed this gave him the right to marry again Maria Tucci was recalled to the stand and went again over the story ot Angelina's last night. She said her gister had threatened her with both knife and revolver and put h hand over her mouth to prevent any out- ery. Maria reiterated her testimony that her finger was not on the trigger of the revolver when it ex- ploded. Mr. Talley asked how quickly the gecond shot followed the first, and Maria clapped her hands smartly by way of illustration, less than half a wecond between the blows. At that time, she said, she was holiing and forcing backward . Angelina's right Rand in which the revolver was + clasped. Maria described how, following the shooting, she had thrown the bed clothes over her sister after taking Conchettina from the bed. She had done this. she said, to keep Angelina from being cold. Order Banning Buses Is Stayed. Justice Lyon to-day signed an order, Which does not take effect until passed ‘on by the Appellate Division, prohibit- tng the Mayor and the Board of Esti- ate from operating municipal bus tines in competition with the Receiver ef the New York City Rallways in fad Street. Seventh Avenue and 14th Street to the Willlamsburg Bridge. ‘Tho order does not affect any lines not com- peting with existing street car lines, A second order stays the. ion of the first until a review has acted upon by the higher court \UR candies, delivered fresh ASSORTED MOUSSE — Being made in Our Own Candy kitchen. Come in and receive a sample with our compliments of this dainty confection, fresh from the candy maker's table. Made from the white of egg, pure cream, filled with chopped nuts, then beatenuntillightandfluffy. We receive this candy, reg- ularly, fresh everyhour,from a our own candy Ib. kitchen. candy service aiming candy kitchens and chocolate factories, byasplendidstaffofcandy . makers, pledged to produce only the best, are packed and sealed at the candy makers’ table and Tucci Girl Tells of Shadows in Her Life That Led.to the Killing of Her Sister. ne Girl on Trial For Murder Re- lates, in Dramatic Testi- mony, ‘How Clouds Spread From Sicily to America. Light Laughter and Threats Angelina’s Only Response Neighbors’ Whisperings. The story of Maria Tucci, ns she herself has told it, turning a soaden ball of handkerchief in her hands,ga sombre figure and all too small for the wide seat in whioh the purposes of the law placed her, 1s a story of the shadows that fell one by one life. And always they were the shadow of her sister. They her first in the little Sicilian’ village ,of Cerami, in across her came upon Catania, her home, She was a child then, with eyes only for the shadows that the sun cast. But the others, So unseen then, deepened and length- ened as her years grew until they were’ all gbout her*iind she must see them. And at last they reached out from Cerami, crossed the leagues of intervening sea and touched her here in. New York She was 4 woman then, for the Birls of Sicily are women at twenty, and she knew what the shadows meant. Perhaps they were less heavy at first, but in the end they fell in a cloak over he whole life, for the sis- ter, too, had come from Ceram{ and stood at her side to cast them, They weighed upon her young shoulders, ang when she lifted her eyes she saw nothing but a careless smile the sister's mouth. Her sister's light laugh was always in her ears | Then came a time when the shad- ows deepened to the black of fore- boding. The heedless sister dfd not | See them, though they were rolling | tragically back upon her. What was jall thi nonsense, this fine sense of Maria’s about a man? She could not understand it; men came into wom en's lives as a matter of céurse; why not now instead of waiting for a j silly thing called a license and the mumbling of words? Besides, this man was rich, and both might profit. She knew him well; he was their cousin, Day after day Maria heard it over and over again. But she refused. And at last’ one night the shadows filled a tenement room with darkness through which came the stabbing red of two pistol shots. Maria was kicel- ing on a disordered bed, her sister |dead beneath her, the heartless urg- ings ended, the smile forever gone. Thia is the story as Maria has told it, part of it at least, as she made her plea for what happened in the tenes ment room that night. Now the s! ows about her are those of the law, for the others are laid with the wom- an who cast them. SHADOW I. 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These’are packed in \ twosizes Gina a box for 25c., ora Ib. | full Ib, box for H FULL WEIGHT—16 ounces of CANDY in every pound box Unirep Reraw Canpy SrToreEs 42nd—also 43rd—bet: 5th and 6th Aves, | “The World’s Largest Candy Store’ TH EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920. ¢ f money to bring Angelind acroks to Join her, Angelina bade her hurry because she was tired of Sictly—and the whisperings: A When Maria freached New York she went to live with an Italian fam- ily at No, 99 West Houston Street | who had known her people at home Th as the household of Mrs, Rosa Zing: je, te mother of the Mascal boys, Luigh and Santo, who be: |her fast friends, Maria was |maker, and, getting employment once, was soon at the task of saving and sending money back to Angelina. By this time Conti, heaging the whis- perings in Sicily, had cut off all main- tenance for his wife, and she was more than Willing to leave for Amer ica where she could make a new h| home. By dint of denial Maria sent sev- eral hundred dollars to Angelina, im ploring her in each letter to come to New York. But, for some reason or other, the elder sister postponed her departure, though Maria continued to send and urge. One day she received a@ letter saying that Angelina wae coming. And in October, 1919, An gelina arrived in New York with lit- tle Conchettina. Immediately Maria left the Zingale household and with the money she had left furnished three rooms in the West Houston Street tenement and she and Angelina began their life together, SHADOW Ii. Angelina came to America, month, to be exact, there had come to New York a cousin of hers, one Michael Mongiovi, a big fellow, attractive in a rough way, whom the | Tuccis had known well in Ceram. He | had always appealed to Angelina and jtney "had been much together in Sicily.” He wanted Angelina in Amer- ica just as much as Maria did, dif- ferently interested, however, and he, too, gave her money to pay her way across. She promised to follow him in a month, and whe kept this prom- ise. Seeing Maria was an incidental consideration | Mongiovi lost no time in seeking jout Angelina, whom: he found in tue! little home Maria had madé for her. Maria liked Michae! well gnough as a cousin and was ready to welcome her kinsman, but Michael wanted to be something more than that to Ange- lina-and Maria was not slow to see it He was at the tenement door morp- ing and night. ‘The people in the house saw him coming and going at al] hours with the freedom of a mem- | ber of the household But Maria saw in the continuous visits of Michael more than a menace Before one MARIE” TUGC) OSTERMATIONAL, hanpy life of sisters in sunny Cerami.| not of the whisperings, Angelina and ad Angellss apehire pee none to Angelina was thirteen years older|Torocgo were arrested. She had! herselt., Tf AMEi Un were te than her sister and a belle in the vil-| heard the whisperin, and only|their household was coming into dis- lage. She was pretty and bright--|6miled. Even the arrest dimmed the|repute, then no one would want to well calculated to t shadows, | Smile for only a little while, and then/seek out ap a er aaia M. , with gelina we: A . marriage in his eye. Maria worshipped her, as did the) hogeline Want ae pigr arer | ‘This, however, was not the worst youths of the village, if in a different | Giant care how heads waxeed now. {that Mar lence. Once way. Angelina was “travelled,” too,| These were the first shadows that|Angelina | ey Mga Be ha aad because in 1904, when Maria was four, | fell upon Maria. She did not under- |Sition LaMheady 2 ah poi ar she had gone to America and worked| Stand the whisperings, but she was|herself, so both sisters woul hel ‘ a ‘d) sure they meant something. Ang |profit, ‘as Michael was rich. Marla in New York for three yeurs. That! gniy laugbed. Maria loved her too|learned that Angelina was really gave her a glamor. Maria said that| much to-laugh Jafvaid of losing .Michael and racher she, too, would go to New York In time Maria grew to girl's estate, | than lose him entirgly she was willing * Then came the longing to go to New|to share him some day. ’ ork where Angelina had been and| Thus came the deepest, most tragic Not long after Angelina returned| where Angelina sid there was so|shadow. Angelina persisted in neh to Sicily she was Won away from her| much money to be thade. To make |appeal and abruptly changed It 4 3 ayers fe 5 |this dream come true little Maria|tlreat, emphasized with a knife, She ni Balvatore ; Ps other suitors by Salvatore Contl, a| worged hard and long and at last tn |would kill Maria if the latter longct sturdy young workman of Troino who} the Winter of 1918 she had saved|refuscd to nccede: The last conversa- took her there to live. They ‘were/enough to mgke the voyage. She|tion upon this sordid subject came happy together for two or three told Angelina’gthat as soon as she|early on the morning of March 8 last could sh 7 d senc n ougl e| i 0 omite 4 years and one child was born to them, Cd she would send back enough angelina, lying in bed bestd Perla, now a girl of twelve, and Con chettina. Perla does not enter into! =) in the bed with her mother when the two tragic shots wer fired in the dark tenement oom. She was . seek fortune in America After Conti's departure Angelina 1500 Dresses Reduced to Exactly again became a be this time in . - ij irate eeudavarsiern ihe neuen ONE-HALF THEIR FORMER PRICES! H whisperings about her in the village. 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