Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-30
TEE muHpEa OF mrs. rRo1.
grci Arrested In Stockton. and
Charged with Wife Murder-A Report
ers Interview with the Accused.

| ElaIHUSEAb5 lEOL Wdo 5lOb dAA AA@ASS-
in the doorway of her houae, which is stu
ated few miles cast of the town Of Gait, 10
this county, on the evening of February Q
1882. At the time, an Italian By the name
of Giovanuie Lintini was charged with the
murder. Liutini fad Immediately after the
murder, and, though closely pursued for sew.
eral days by posse of officers, succeeded in
nskipg his escape. As time passed, and
nothing was heard from him, it was concluded
that he had fad the State. and although a
large reward was offered the officers gave up
the search, and the affair was almost forgot
| ter. Lintini, it appears, hsd to TulaTe
| county, and hired out as sheepherder,
which occupation he pursued for many
months. I5 appears that few
weeks ago be acted Ia strange
and 6emented manner, and IL said to
have informed his employer that he was a
fugitive frcm justice. having murdered q
women IN Sacramento county some fifteen
months age. His actions and language led
| The people with whom he waa living to think
he was insane, and he was arrested and taken
60 the county seat. The Sheriff of San Joa-
quin county hearing of the arrest, and the
assertions made By Lintini, proceeded to
| TulEre county with the husband of the MUIR
dsred woman. Troi identified Lintini, and
| charged him with the murder of his wife.
Liutini was brought TO this county, where be
| is now incarcerated in the county jail. Lin
tint, when charged with the murder, stoutly
denied II, and asserted that the woman had
bsen murdered by her husband.
During tia past week the District Attor-
ney has heard from various quarters that
those who lived in the neighborhood where
the murder was committed believed this
statement Of Lintini, and were Of the opin
ion thst it was a case Of wife murder.
On Saturday last the District Attorney re-
csived a letter from Gait, signed by several
responsible parties, who asserted that it wss
10 idle runor, but that positive evidence
could be produced which would prove that
| the murder was not committed by Lintipi,
and he being innocent of the horrible crime,
they did rot wish to see him punished.
Sheriff Estill, on receiving this information,
| immediately took the matter in hand, and
| after short investigation a complaint was
sworn TO by S. Z. Wreston charging 1roi
with the murder of his wife, ard upon this
complaint Justice Tubbs Issued warrant for
Troi's arrest. Hearing that Troi was in
! Stockton. Deputy Sheriff Lee left on the
! frat train for that place. arrested Troi,
brought him to this city on the 2:10 P. N.
tain yesterday and lodged him in the County
Jail.
In view Of the fact that the accused has not
as yet had his hearing. it is not advisable to
make public the eWly-developed facts in the
case. Suffice it to say that there ore re-
spoasible eye-Eitnesses who will swear to the
guilt of Troi and the innocence of Lintini.
Those who assert their belief in the guilt of
the husband of the murdered woman, explain
the fight of Lintini, who speaks; but little
English, by saying that he had fight with
Troi on the day the murder was committed,
and that Troi had threatened to have him
arrested. That when he was eluding the Off
csrs, he was doing so under the belief that
thsy were endeavoring to arrest him for a
breach Of the peace, and that he was not
aware Of the murder of Mrs. 1roi. It is
stated that party who witnessed the homi-
eide, and who in the past has kept silent.
now comes forward and accuses the husband
Of committing the horrible crime in order to
prevent an innocent man from being pun
ished for crime ne did not commit.
Shortly after Troi had been lodged in the
county jail yesterday representative OF the
RECORD UNION visited him.
Salvador Troi is native of Switzerland,
Ga years Of age, short and stout, very dark
complexion, black hair, and not st al unpre-
possessing in appearance. When informed
| by the reporter Of the object of his mission,
| he seemed very willing to make statement,
and related ali the incidents that transpired
on the day of the murder of his wife in
straightforward manner, describing sill the
conversation between himself, his wife and
Lintini, aud his statement throughout was
complete to the minutest details The fol-
lowing is b1ief synopsis of the interview,
which does not materially differ from the ey.
idence given by him at the fret examination
son February o. 1882, L;ntini went TO
Gait and came 20 my house about o'clock in
fba off ~ That Hau 7 xya triad
and suffered with rheumatism, and after get
ting the cows and milking them, | took my
pipe snd told my woman l would 90 on the
porch and smoke. l sat down about ten feet
from the door, and pretty SOON my wife told
me that John Linsini was coming in wagon
with another man, sheep man called Pete.
l went out and sat down or o gzng-plow, and
John drove up aud stopped, and said, HelloP
and I said, Hello ? He got down from the
all right He sAid, I want to know what
you mean by all right, and said, Nothing.
John then said, No by --, want
to know what you mean by all right [ told
him, Nothing He then asked noe where
his little girl was that had been keeping for
him for some time, and l told him she was in
the house. He then caught me by the coat
and struck me, and when ] told him 60
stop, that 1 did rot want any trouble
woman then came from tbs house and asked
Pete why ne did not hold up, and told him
l was sick with rheumatism. Pete then
caught john blythe shoulders and held him, and
I pulled and broke loose from John, and he
got into the wsgun and started fog home. Pete
stayed few minutes and asked ne TO do him
the favor to not have John arrested. l told
him | would not, rs [ had no money to throw
away, and ne and my wife went into the
1 a - i l. -
there WaB no water. Of course l felt bad,
but told her to give me the bucket and l
would go and get the water. She said 1 felt
tired and she would go. had Johns little
girl between nay knees and was smoking. NY
woman went to the door and was Just going
out, but sprsng back and said, There comes
John Lintini with gum / jumped up and
went to the door and saw John, and said,
What do you do, John !? Then nay woman
foot inside, and said. Who do you want,
John !? and then he shot her in the breast,
and she cried out, What for did you kill me.
BarbzryT She did not fall down, and I
asked her if she was very much hurt, and she
said No, not much l then ran out and
followed J0hu, but I heard the child cry so
loud that ran back to see what was the mat
ter, and found ny wife cold dead. Then
called Mr.. White and lady, and they helped
me TO carry my WIG lDGO Guo mouse. IrOl
supposas that Lintini intended to kill him in
stead of Mrs. Troi, and said: John did
the shooting with his own gun, and did it
after he had the row with me-"
He says he was married eight yesrs ago in
Stockton. After ne was married he sent for
his sister-in-laH to come to this country, and
FIVE years ago she was married 20 Lintini
Soon after their marriage Lintini commenced
abu.ing his wife, and ut last she could stand
it no longer and left him and made her home
with her sister. Mrs. Troi From that time
he claims that L;ntini. who blamed TIoi and
his wife for his domestic trouble, herbored i'll
feeling toward them, which eliminated in
the murder of Mrs. Troi as above stated.
The child spoken of belonged TO Lintini, and
died a few months since. Troi OWLS q ranch
of eighty acres, and at the time of his arrest
in Stockton was engaged in psddlire veg.
etables.
MEMORIAL DAY.-A full programme of the
exercises to-day was published in the RECORD
UNION yesterday morning. There has been
no change excepting that the line Of march
has been extended. At the conclusion of the
Brigade review by Adjutant General Cosby
and staff officers, the military viii march to
Eighth street, to J, to Seventh, where the
Hussars will fall in, thence to Pioneer Hall,
where Sumner Pest will fall in, thence to K,
4 7 Al 1.