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PUCKERS MUST FACE
CRIMINAL CHS
government Has Civil Suit
Against "Beef Trust" Dis
missed in Chicago.
WILL PRESS PROSECUTION
potion Taken to Clear Way for
Trial for Conspiracy to Re
strain Trade — No Further
Delay To Be Granted.
Cilcaco. Dec. Edwin W. Sims,
! rr.tec Suites Attorney for this district,
■ Eppea^ed before Judge Kohlsaat in the
I <• ifral Circuit Court to-day and asked
I -bat the sail of the government to dis
!«lve the National Packing Company.
i ,>---■ b been accused cf being: a trust.
be dismissed. The order was entered by
the court. This move was made, gov
fggtmtßX officials said, for the purpose of
<■ 62.""- the way for the criminal trials
gf packers indicted 0-1 chargres of con
spiracy to restrain trade.
IttßC . - for the indicted packers re
r c\ appeared in the federal District
Ccart sad asked that criminal proceed
fogs be stayed until the civil suit had
keen tried.
"We are icing- everything «c can to |
expedite the criminal trials," said a fed
; '-? cSdaL "Even* obstacle to a ready
i Trial Bed by the packers we have re- j
t, . ;--ed so far as we can- They wanted i
ism la the criminal proceedings to en- j
able them ro devote their time to this
rcit, so we hud this ODe dismissed to ex
7*dite the other." ]
Janes H. Wilkerscn, Assistant United
S^.tes Attorney, said to-night that there
•was -.>• cue reason for the dismissal of
xhs civil suit, and that was the desire
r' the government for immediate and
vigorous criminal prosecution of the
packers.
- "The petiticn agtdrLSt the packers." he
«~'f "was Sled or; Z-larch 21. 1310. After-
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Goods Charged in London to Heine
Accc'-irt — Prices Less U. 5. Duties.
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Cape. Hand Sewn. *pl»«^vJ
■ DRESS GLOVES— Tan— Men—
$2.00, $2.50
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Fcr Men $2.00
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— i:- Button .JjJ.vv
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$185 «• 53.25
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■ sey '•:•■■' re Philadelphia ■
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I iAYCUR^BtJIMETABSiM
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PEMEDY FOR GOtT ANB lOIKUMiHSM
***» AXD Br T T"« tr - 1 SOCK EHCGGtsT
ward* thire was a Brand jury lnyestiga-
Uon. as ■ result of (which indictments
were returned chorsingr som. of the d< -
, fondants in.thebill with criminal vi..lr-
Uon? af i ; i. . ant I- trust law. Since the
I return, of those' indictments the detond
ants in^ the. equity case have' asked a
•, number, of _ extensions of time within
I which .to answer, ami these extensions
. have always been granted.
"It was thoistrht to be fully understood
by both 'the eroyernment • and the attor
neys for the packers that there were to
j bo no further proceedings in the. equity
icate until the trial of the criminal cases."
: "The purpose of the dismissal of the
I equity case is ••-„• clear the position
of the |Bii |ÜBiii.>i« That the trial of the
• criminal capes is. to be vigorously puslnjii.
and is to be interfered with in no way
j whatever by the pendency of the equity
[ cases in the Circuit Court:" ;
"It may be th.it a resort to. a petition
| in equity, to enjoin future violations -will
■( entirely unnecessary if the govern-"
j rnent's contcnti<ins arc established in the
j criminal cases. Th* Attorney "General,
j therefore, directed the dismissal of the
equity ease Without prejudice. Further
proceedings to enjoin future violations
can, of course, be instituted if those pro
ceedings should be found necessary to
maintain fully the position of the gov
! eminent in this litigation."
The recent -decision of the United j
j States Supreme Court in the case of Xi&- ;
; sel and Harned. the indicted sugar men, ]
'. that conspiracy under the anti-trust law j
', may be a continuing: offence, prosecution j
for which is not barred by the statute of j
; limitations, government officials say. has ;
facilitated the "work of proceeding .
• against the packers.
-BATHTUB TRUST" IN COURT
— — vrj
Defendants Plead Not Guilty ;
and May Enter Demurrer. j
Detroit. Dec "~. — The first appearance j
! in connection with the government proae- 1
i cations of manufacturers of enamelled !
i bathroom fixtures was entered before Judge
' Swan in the United States District Court
here this afternoon. Joseph H. Fiale?. of
Fittsburg, and Charles "Wright, of Detroit,
' resenting J. A. Frauenheim. president :
' zr.d treasurer of the Kerner Manufactur- j
i ing Company, of • Pittsburgh and allied in- :
i terests, entered an appearance for their
j clients.
To the charges in the indictments, which
• were returned by the grand jury here on {
' December 6, that a combination in restraint \
\ of trade had been entered into by the de
fendant company, the plea was not guilty.
Tho attorneys for the defendants, however, j
; reserved the right to -withdraw the plea and ■
; erter a demurrer to the indictment. Judge
i Swan granted the right of demurrer, pro- i
: viced that the • necessary papers ?re filed]
; before January 2, 1911.
! Following the appearance in court, the
j attorneys of the defendants filed bond? in
j 54,000 for the appearance of each of their
{ clients. It -was practically decided by the
I United States Attorney. Frank H. "*Vat
scn. and the attorneys for the defence, that
• tv. 1 - case -»-ould -be brought to trial early in
■• --" • . •
EXPECTANT BRIDE IN TEARS
Brooklyn Tailor • Missing from
His Own Wedding Feast.
Miss Sarah Greenberg, of No. ? Eidridge
street, and Max Schlossberg. a tailor, living
at No. Ssi Reid avenue, Brooklyn, were to
have been married last night. Arrange
ments bad been completed for the cere
mony to be performed by Rabbi Barnett
Feinstein, and It was to have taken place
a- Fisher's? Faciftc Hall. No. SOT East
Broadway v ~
: L»ong before the time set for the wedding
I the hal!~tr"a"s filled"' their friends and'
relatives; ar/: at o'clock, when the rabbi
■was to • have pronounced them man end
i wife, ■ there were mere than ' five hundred
persons present. Everybody was in an : ex
ceedingly genial mood. ' .■-..'
>"*t so with the bride, however. She had
been -patiently -waiting for her sweetheart,
ant* when hour after hour • parsed and he
•was not to be seen, she became tearful, and
despite the efforts of the guests she would
not be comforted. Then the guests became
worried, -nd in * few minutes everybody
was wondering what had happened to the
bridegroom.
V."hen he FaOe<l to show up at the stipu
lated time .>- committee, consisting of ten
men ana women, started for his home in
Brooklyn, but up to a late hour last night
nothing had been heard from, either the
committee or Schlossberg. Miss-Greenberg
fainted several times, and it was with much
difficulty that she was revived by a. physi
cian.
WIFE ACCUSES CLAPP
Brings Counter Charges Against
"Blacking King's" Heir.
[By Telegraph to Th" Tribune.]
Philadelphia, li*-r 27.— Chareed by nis
I wife with assault and battery, with assauit
and battery with intent to kill, aggravat
■ : ed assault and battery, desertion and non
| support. Herbert Mason Clapp, heir to the
] "blacking king's*" million?, was held in
' 800 bail to-day for a further hearing to
■ morrow afternoon by Magistral* Harris.
Mr. • Clapp, now almost recovered from
the bullet wound in his neck, which ne
charged was inflicted by his wife on De
cember „3. was placed under arrest at St.
-v? Hospital and taken to the Magis
trates' Court. Mr? Clapp is under &SQO
; ball, charged with shooting her husband
- • • ■*<■» kMI
Friends of the couple have all alone ex
pected a reconciliation between them, but
. to-day's counter-action by Mrs. Clapp I
I makes this seem improbable. j
o
j COULDN'T GET HER CAPTIVE
! Police Hold Would-Be Rescuers of Boy
Charged -with Theft.
" ■•. the arre?t yesterday of an eleven- I
• ' ir-01-i boy and two men. the police of !
the Eidridge street station believe they j
have covered a new Fagin gang, with !
up-to-date methods.
"While Mr? Marirka Vlnkawitch. Accom- |
1 panied by two women friends, was walking j
through Broom': street, the boy grabbed
her pocketbook. which contained Pi 50, and
; started, on a run. The crowded condition
of the street impeded the boy's progress,
and Mrs. V:n!<aiviTeh had him by the col
: lar before a block had been covered
i Just as she caught the boy two men
walked up. according to Mrs. Vinkawltch. j
and saying they were detectives, asked j
her to turn the prisoner over to them. She
did not like the looks of either of the
"cetectlves," and refused to zive the boy
up
"Let him go, you are choking him." said
lew of the men. as he struck Mrs. Vinka
-vitch a blow on the jaw. At the same
, time his companion kicked her friend. Their [
cries attracted ihe. attention of Detective
Dribbin. of the Eidridge street station, and
rvith the I stance of two patrolmen of
the Delancey ■■-.-- station he rounded up
1 the trio.
The boy gave his name as Isador Sha- |
piro, of No. 23S Delancey street. At Po
! Hoe Headquarters,- where they were held | ■
as suspicious persons, the men gave their ,
ncznes ib Joseph BehJaar. of No. 15S Mori- <
roe street, and Louis Shapper, of No. 11 '
Rutger street. '
.
WOULD RETIRE MORE HORSECARS. I
A public hearing -will be held by the Pub- j c
lie Service Commission en January 10 at
2:30 o'clock on the application of Frederick
1 •f •irhitridge. receiver of the Third Aye-
I nue line, to. substitute storage battery cars : >
< tor th*- horse-drawn ears cow used on the!
i ll'rth street car line. The new cars wt% I
:isr>»t twenty persons. They ha v« .'b«*>n' test
ed for the last six weeks and found very I
I saUsfaCtory* ■ '.; '
NEW-YORS DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY. DECE3IBER 28. 1910
KIDNAPPERS WHO GOT LONG PRISON TERMS
MARIA RAPFA. . . STANISLAQ. PATTENZA.. -
They were sentenced for from . twenty-five to forty-nine years' imprisonment in
-.-.■'- „ ■ Brooklyn yesterday.. . .■■';- ;• :-■}■;■'■•''■'
! QUITS INTERPRETER'S JOB
j yp^ __ .. _ . . . ;
I Forgo Resigns Because of Hi?
?■ Trouble with Magistrate. '. '. .\
I John Forgo will no longer interpret Italian
I for the benefit of ■ Magistrate House in the
Torkvfiie court. This ".as decided last
j night by the Board of City Magistrates.
' When Forgo heard; of the decision he de
■ dared he would go back ••:• sunny- Italy
• to write social not?-? for a weekly- paper
,in this city. He thought this work, would
Ihe more profitable than court interpreting.
! Any war, his temperament, he said, 'was
j such that it would not permit him to work
directly under the eye of a boss.
The charges against Forgo were -pre-,
' ferrrd by Magistrate House, who took
! issue with the interpreter when he at
: tempted to run the court on. November 22.
i On that day Forgo was suffering from a.
severe cold and insisted ; on the windows
; being closed, whereas Magistrate House
wanted the windows open. The, sash cords
j fairly groaned that day.-, for . the court ;
■windows were first opened by Magistrate '"■
! House and then closed by Forgo and the
: operation was repeated time' and again.
• Forgo denied that he. had been insolent, I
; insulting or insubordinate, a* charged, and j
< said that Magistrate ; House was merely
■ mistaken in r«F-eating ' a conversation be- j
! tween Them. The Board «bf • City -Magis- :
trates permitted Forgo to resign, so that ':
his temperament- misfit rot be- jarred by,
being dismissed. !
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GRAND JURY FOR .M'GRATH
Patrolman Athlete Is Held for
Felonious Assault. •
Fatrolman Matthew McGrath, of the Fort
Hamilton . station, known widely for his j
athletic prowess, was held in the Flatbush
court yesterday for the grand jury on a I
technical charge felonious assault. Me- ;
Grath shot George- Walker at 1 o'clock on!
Christmas morning. According to "Big J
Mat."' he found Walker in. the McGrath;
home. No. 70S East sth street. Brooklyn.
He charge? that Walker first tired at him. !
Walker is in a serious condition in the'
Kings County Hospital." • ■ : •
Walker is a Democratic election district !
captain, and some years -ago achieved some I
fame as a pugilist. He told the I police
that Mrs. McGrath had .invited- him to .the j
McGrath home. " Tenants in the house tes- j
tified that they had heard the shooting in
the McGrath rooms, .that subsequently?
they had seen bloodstains on the floor, and, ;
/according .to their story, some of the fur
niture-had "been smashed. Mrs. McGrath
was . not in court. ; i
The courtroom was crowded. Among!
those- present wer» Lawrence Robertson, j [
of the Irish-American Athletic Club; Har-|,
vey Cohn. a long distance runner: John A. I:
Wallace, a broker, of No! 40 Wall street, j
and a dose friend of McGrath; Captain!]
Creamer of the Flatbush station and Act- ; •
ing Captain Farr of -Parkville station. I
Apart from his ability as an athlete, .Me- :
Grath has a first rate reputation Cor per- . :
sonal courage. On a December night sev- ]'
eral years ago. he dove into the Icy cur- j
rents of the Harlem River from a distance j
of fifty feet, and saved a man from drown
ing. For this he received a gold medal ' .
and Hie warm praise of Commissioner j
Btngham. j
PLEAD GUILTY TO FORGERY ' 1
! Kosenthal and Spiro Get a Year Each
\ for Realty Frauds.
Irving W. Rosenthal and Jacob Spiro
pleaded guiity yesterday to forgery in the
second degree, and were sentenced by Jus
tice Tompkins, in the Criminal Branch of
1 the Supreme Court, . to one year each in
state prison. Rosenthal had been on trial
for several days on the charge of forgery
in the first degree-
The crime to which both plegded guilt"
was committed in connection with the fore
closure of real estate mortgages. Another
indictment charging conspiracy to prevent
the legal foreclosure of such mortgages is
still pending against tnem and three others,
including Mrs. Xargitret Graham-Reed,
ho -was a witness for the state at the trial -
of Rosen thai. |
COURT GRAFTS MOTHER'S FLEA
Issues Writ for Production of Infant
Held for Unpaid Board Bill.
Alleging that her four-year-oid daughter
was being held a? a hostage for an unpaid
board bill. Mrs. Gussle Katz. of .so. SI?
East 23th street, yesterday obtained a writ
of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court
directing Mr?. Esther Wolf, of > o. 60 East
l«\';d rtreet, tc produce the child !n -~ourt on
Thursday.
Mrs. Katz said she had placed her daugh
ter with Mrs. Wolf to board, but that the
latter has refused to give up the child
until the mother pays the money which
Mrs. Wolf said that Mrs. Katr owed her
for the child's maintenance.
DIES AFTER TWELVE DAYS
Odd Delay in Effect, of Usually Deadly
Bichloride of Mercury. .
Ptttsburg. Dec. 27.— Twelve days ago El
mer Dese swallowed twenty-seven grains
of bichloride of mercury, enough to kill a
hundred and fifty persons, and to-day he
died. After the poison had been taken a
physician was summoned, and in a short
time Dese was apparently as well as ever.
He told members of his family what he
bad done, but gave the matter no more at
tention. Christmas Eve he became ill. and
his condition gradually grew worse until he
died from tfM effects of the poison.
TEN.MONTHS FOR MRS. ANDERSON.
Mrs Jeanett* Anderson, who ""as convict
»d of manslaughter in the first degree for
killing James Wilson, was sentenced yes
terday by Justice Tompkins in the Crimi
nal Branch of the Supreme Court ;to tea
month* in the penitentiary/ The* jury which
found the ' 'voman guilty recommended
m»*rcy. The ■- extreme ' penalty for man
s}a«Cht«r in thi» first decree i- not less ttmn
1,-1-, .•! in-- than uvcntj- 'years- in elate
pri v
BENNETT'S BODY FOUND
Survivor Arrives and Tells of
New Yorker's Death.
j Key West. Fla_. Dec. 27.— The pilot boat
• Nonpars!) arrived here s.r noon to-day.
I brinping- Herman Parker, a passenger on
i the yacht Lebra, which was -wrecked Sun
! day' night on 'the- northwest jetties. Parker
j stated- that •"•hen the yacht struck all six
| occupants were caught in : the wreckage.:
| Captain Stuart Bennett, of New York.
| ma cazlnp. writer -and- owner of the boat, !
j and his. wife- were drowned. Three of the ,
| crew were rescued Monday. Parker was
j saved early to-day. Bennett'? body has
been recovered.
According to Parker, Mrs. Bennett duns
j to the bottom of the wrecked yacht for six
■ hours before the heavy sea? carried her
; away." Parker floated to a small' key.
i where he found a skiff, which had floated
I from the yacht. He started out to sea. j
■ he declared, when early this moraine an
! unknown boat passed within 150 yards of
I him and refused. to respond to his cry for
j assistance. Parker was badly bruised and
! exhausted when brought here and taken to J
! the. Maloney Hospital.
Bennett was about thirty- five years old
•He was known in New York yachting
; circles.. His wife had ■ relatives at Tarry
: town and White Plains, N. Y.
I FINDS FAMILY STARVING
I ■- - ■ ; ... . :;.■>■:
Patrolman Cooks Steak for
Mother and Three Children.
While Fatrolman Grill, of the Snyder i
avenue • station, Flatbush. was patrolling
, his post, at Church and Utica avenues, yes
! terday afternoon a man told him that a I
I family was starving at No 556 Utica. aye- j
: nue. . Grill went with the man and found >.
i the door of .the place locked. After failing j
; to get an answer to repeated knocking, he j
I broke .the. door, down and entered. In a I
! rear room of a six-room fiat he found Mrs. \
; Margaret Plumb, a young- woman, lying on '
a bed, ill with a fever and almost starving.
Clasped in her arms was a nine-months
old boy. A little boy of. five and bis sister,
Edna, three years old, were lying on the
floor. All were famished.
Grill took only one glance and ran down
the stairs ' to a butcher store, where he }
bought "a steak. He then returned to the
Plumb home and cooked the steak for the
mother and *, her children. They at the
meat ravenously,- and when Mrs. Plumb ;
had sufficiently recovered her strength she i
told the patrolman that her husband had |
left the house three weeks ago and had !
not returned. The flat was almost bare of
furniture, and a single blanket was the j
only bed clothing in the house.
Mrs. Plumb paid that she had locked the '
door of the place three days before ex-!
pecting to die. All the furniture had been ;
pawned in exchange for money to buy food
When Grill stooped to pick up little Edna
he discovered that her left leg was broken. I :
the result of falling from a chair.
Mr«. Plumb and her children were taken '
to the Kings County Hospital, where it Is i
said the woman is in a serious condition :
Edna, win recover. 1
SHE HAS TWO HUSBANDS ;
Woman Wedded Hastily Di- \
■ vorce Now Annulled. i
St. Ixrais, .Dec. 27.— divorce decree I '
granted to James L. Powell on November 1 I ■
and set aside three days later, following I i
the marriage of Mrs. May Louise Powell to j 1
C. Frederick Ekfelt, was finally annulled !i
to-day when Circuit Judge Muench dis-|<
missed the reopened divorce suit. I ]
The court action leaves tho woman with i
two husbands. Judge Muench declared his 1
decision to be. due to evidence of collusion ;
Of the Powells. He offered no suggestion as 1
to ,? I I - Po ™' ell ' s means of extricating her- ]
"'t SSF her- matrimonial tangle. Powell
an.] Elael are prominent in business circles. ' :
• j
DISLOCATES JAW ON STEAK
Husband Tries to Make Wife Shut Her
Mouth, Then Calls Surgeon.
! Mrs. Catherine Murther. of No. 5 Erooms
street. while- trying to bite her way through
a piece of st?ak of high resistive, power last
night dislocated her jaw. Her husband,
who was having dinner with her, wonder
ing at the long break in the conversation,
looked up and found his wife looking at
him in an agonized way, her mouth wide
open.
He called in all his neighbors, and when
their combined efforts failed to budge the
jaw they sent for Dr. McGrath, of Gouver
rieur Hospital Dr. McGrath could not find
anything at hand to exercise the leverage
necessary to get the suffering woman's
mouth shut and he took her to the hos
pital, where she was quickly relieved
RABBIT HAS TUBERCULOSIS
Binghamtoc Health Officer? Fear Co^s
and Human Beings May Be Infected.
Binghamton. N. T., Dec. 27.— A rabbit
brought to the City Health Department for
examination was to-d/.y found to be suffer
ing from tuberculosis. Fearing that con
taarion may be transmitted by infected rab
bits to human beings, the authorities have
asked the. State Health Department to in
vestigate the case. .The glands of The rab
bit's neck were badly swollen.
The local officers believe that cows in
pastures where rabbits are plentiful may
become infected and transmit the disea.-:?
to human beings.
MAYOR'S REST INTERRUPTED
Documents Requiring His Signature
Call Him Back to the City Hall.
Mayer Gaynor is taking a vacation this
-week at his county home at St. James. He
had not. intended when he left on Thurs
day to be at his desk In the City Hall until
January 3. His signature to some impor
tant documents was needed, however, and
he was in his office for an hour late yes
terday, afternoon.
Although th- Mayor finds that he fir"?
easily , It was said (hat the fact that be
was taking a week's rest should not b«*
L t)tiirtrued -up an indication of any serious
V.. a acnt ot Bcsllh,
BAD DAY FOR BLACK HAND
Maria Rappa and S. Pattenza 60
to Prison for 25 Years.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT
Judge Fawcett Deplores His In
ability to Impose Death for ■ ■
Child Stealing: '• } ;;^i
Deploring his inability to. impose, tlw o^atli
penal'}-. Judge Fawcett. \ of -.the . Kings
County Court, yesterday sentence.'!
Maria Kappa and Stanislao ; Fattenza to"
spend] a term of riot let- than j twenty-nv<»;
years nor more than 'forty-nine years" and
ten months in prison for their part in the
Kidnapping ■of eight-year-old. Giuseppe
Lonzo. . Leas .than, three weeks , ago Hie
police had no proof of their connection with
the -riissppearance of* the- boys. The. rapid
work of the authoriti-.s attracted as much
attention as their/succesVin -securing the,
convictions. Half a dozen other members'
of the gang are at laree. but the police
know who "they are, ami expect to catchy
them in time. ..: . - . ..." ■'■•■ -vV-Vii
The scene .in court ■ yesterday was .unusu
ally dramatic. The .' large - room, on th
ground floor of the 'County Courthouse was
jammed with humanity at 9:Si> ..o'clock.
There was a noticeable absence of Italian?.
Many of the. spectators "were said to-be
rom Manhattan.' Dozen? of. people who
could nor crowd into the room hung about
the corridors -and waited anxiously for the
sentence. Interspersed throughout the crowd
err many plainclothes men .-.with,, their
and* on their guns, ready for, anything
that might develop. It has been ; an open
secret from the first that the authorities
feared an attempt upon the judge or ; an
effort to rescue the. prisoners. V.", ; _:
Judge Fawcett entered the courtroom , at
11 o'clock. He was surrounded by court
officers, and Chief Clerk Charles S. Devoy
took his stand near by. An intense hush
fell over the crowd, when the order came:
"Call Maria. Rappar" . . ,j
Maria Rappa Enters.
Half walking. • half carried by two-stal
wart court officers, the diminutive woman
appeared at the door of the prisoners' peri-
Her shawl was wrapped closely about her
thin shoulders and her great black eyes,
glaring with fear, turned excitedly from
side to side. The fear of the crowd more
than the fear of justice seemed to.be upon
her. She seemed to expect- a bullet --to
come crashing out from amor.? th* crowd
to her left. The officers 'hustled her-quickly.
before the judge's bench. ' " ,
"Maria Rappa.*' began : the ' court, - ' hav
you anything to say why sentence should
net be pronounced upon you""
• "What can I say"* she- cried -when .the
interpreter explained the question to her.
"They wanted to convict me. and the?
did ccnvict me. I know nothing about it.**
"Maria Rappa," said the ' judge, • "you
stand convicted of the crime of kidnapping.
You were a member .of the Black Hand
gang that kidnapped- Giuseppe Longo and
Michael Riizo. "It is almost unbelievable
that you and your neighbor. Mrs." Castalla,
could have held : these \ two crylr.g, broken
hearted children, knowing a? you must
have, known, the terrible suffering of ; their
distracted parents. '■,\, \- ;/■
"You have given "birth to children. Tour
own children lived- with ' you in the very,
room where you kept Giuseppe Longo a
prisoner. The part you have taken in this
crime shows that you have not the spirit
or instinct of a mother.' The God-made
mother love is better shown in beasts and.
birds than in such as you. A good mother
is the holiest thin? alive," but- you eava nx>
evidence in any way of having any' of ' the
qualities of goodness." 'Mother' is synehq
mous .with 'love/ but your heart never re
vealed 'any love"" to the " little "ill treated.
Giuseppe. The unnatural part you took in
I crime stamps you as an undesirable
Sence m any way of having any of the
Jities of zoodr.ess. 'Mother' is sync-no
us with 'love,' but your heart never re
.led any love to the little ill treated
seppe. The unnatural part you took in
; crime, stamp? you a? an undesirable
member of society." i ' „-":'
When the prisoner heard the period
which she was condemned to spend at Au
burn Frison she fell fainting into the arms
of .the officers, with a feeble scream in
Italian "of:
"Oh, God!"
Pattenza Swaggers In..
Hardly had she been removed when the
same door opened to admit her fellow pris
oner. Stanislao Pattenra. Showing liis
training in the Italian army, ;he swagrg-ered
in between the court officers, his face wear
inc the same smile bravado with which
. d<->or opened to admit her fellow pris
£T3n:?lao Patrenra. Showing 1 .".is
ir.s :n the Italian army, he swaargrere-i
twecr, the court officera. his face wear
:b« samp smile of bravado with which
he" faced the jury that convicted him. He
shook his head when asked if he had any
thing to ray why he should not be sen
tenced.
**Sanis!ao Fattenza. you are the chief of
the Black Hand srang that kidnapped Giu
seppe L<ongo and Michael Rizzo," declared
the judge. "You threatened Francisco
Longo. the father of Giuseppe. . with death '
if you failed to get £15,0C0. Father and son
had only two days longer to live, accord
ing to your letters, when the police res
cued the boy and arrested you and Maria ,
Rappa. The others in this conspiracy have .
made their escape, but they are known to
the police and sooner or later will be ap
prehended. Your gang has now got to
reckon with Deputy Police Commissioner
Flynn. who is as resourceful in detective
skill as your viciou3 gang is in secret
methods.
"Maria Rappa would have made a con
fession in open court had it not been that
an emissary of your society called on her
at "the jail on the eve of her trial and in- |
formed her that if she revealed the secrets !
of the society she would be punished with
the Density of death. She. knew how des
perate "our members. were, and her tongue
was still.
'•You were the brains, the leader and
acknowledged chief, the king of the Black
Hangers. You and the others lived from
the fruit.3 of your dastardly crimes of kid- ;
napping, bomb throwing and blackmail-
Your society during the last few years has
caused a reign of terror among th,s good
people of your race in this city. ' Criminals j
of your class should never have, been ad- !
mined to the country. No worse men axs
allowed to live than Black Hander-. Men ;
or your habits should be punished as se
verely as those guilty of murder. I regret '
that the law does not provide the death j
penalty for such crimes." .. :
As the court ordered the prisoner away
to Sing Sing a great sigh of relief and sat
isfaction went up from the crowd. The '
prisoner accepted the sentence without a
word or a change of front. Intimations
were given by the lawyers of . the prisoner
that they would try to "secure writs of rea
sonable doubt and carry the cases up on j
appeal. mI®M ". i
JEWS CELfBRAIE CHAJTUKAH
Members of Both Orthodox and Reform
Faith Observe Festival.
During' the festival of Chanukah; -which
iras ushered in Sunday evening, many en
tertainments and concerts are being held
by Jewish congregations and societies.
which will be observed by the orthodox as
'well as the reform Jews. Throughout the
eight days of the holiday an additional
candle is lisrhted until all the eight lights
of the Chanukah cajidelabra. or-Menorah,
are a glow. . •.
Yesterday, afternoon a celebration was
held at Niblo's Garden, The Bronx., at
-which the Rev.' Joseph H.'Gornnkel. of
Mount Vernon. delivered an address on
Chanuka. A number of lectures,' moving
pictures on Jewish topics and recitations
in Hebrew and ' English will be given at.the,
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• :. ■-•■■; by »hr Ittafl of the blessing upon
ligbting th" Chanukah Ilchts..
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street and Lexington avenue. Another en
t* > rts»Jnm ( »nt was given by the Council of
t.t.-u» Women In the vestry room of
1 Temple Beth- El. Fifth avenue ;and TStS
' street.
I Probably the largest celebration to b*
; held In this city nill ■■ that of the ;'-I»r*; '-I»r*
■ tlon of American Zionists at iha Herald
; s'tuare Theatre n«it Suniii i m~iq.t
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