The Portland daily press., 1885-04-02
sANTOHE,s WRITTEN STATEMENT
A Inst Letter Written on Ihe Eve of
Expected Death said to be Full and
Truthful Account of the Itulians' Crime.


Truthful Account of the Etnlians' Crime.
Tuesday morning FIR. BoDaface of Boston, an
italian clergyman, visited the condemned
italian murderers at the State prison, accom-
panied by Fr. Peterson of Rockland. At that
time Santors gave to Fr. Bonafacs letter
containing as he said, full and truthful ac-
count of the crime for which he and Capone
have been condemned, stating further thar
copy Of the same had been sent to Gov. Robis.
The following is a translation Of the letter.
On the 7th Sept, 1888, about D. M, Pas
quail Coscia called on Raphel Gapone and
Canine Santore to take a walk When we az
rived at certain point Of the road We met one
Bernardo Catardo, with three other men. This
Catardo, on perceiviDg me, informed nae that
there was letter at Bangor for nae in the
handwriting Of one Ruberto Flore. On hear
ing this left Cosca and Capone, and walked
with Catardo. took the road for Bangor, and
was scarcely quarter Of a mile on the way
when heard u whistle, and, turning, saw
Capone alone coming after me. He made a
sign with bis hand to wait a little while, and l.
thinking that he wanted to go with me, await
ed his coming. When he arrived he said to
me, Don't go to Bangor now; Pasquah Ccscia
is coming and we will take this other road
| different from the Bangor one) for he has
some money and we will take it from him, for
/ owe Jactano Pisaturo about 500. and can
not meet it otherwise"
did not want to acquiesce to the demand Of
Capone. bat he persisted for such length Of
time that in the meantime Pasquali Coscia ap-
peared in our midst Capone then left me,
and after satisfying natures demands return
ed, and we were all three together, and on
the road aforesaid by Capone, viz, the one
leading to the wood walked along, smoking
my pipe and keeping at tie right Of Coscia,
and Capone to his left and as soon as we en-
tered the wood Capone fred shot into the
back of Coscia, who cried out to Capone "Oh
Compare, why did you shoot mel You are my
trsipor!"
Immediately Cspone threw the revolver to
the ground, seized stick and followed up Cos
cia, who tried to escape.
Capone cried out to me, SECT, get, get the re-
volver, and shoot, shoot shoot-he is escaping
inches escaping mel"
took up the revolver, and fred a shot at
the distance OF about eight feet, not with the
intention of injuring any of the two who were
RAINING, but with the intention of attracting
the attention of some English speaking work
men, who were laboring not far fron there:
| but my efforts were in vain.
Coscia ran as far as the end Of the wood, but
could go no farther, on account of wooden
| fence. BE then turned back followed by Ca-
| pone, who dealt him repeated blows with the
| stick on the head. Coscia on his return ar
/ rived as far as the spot where the shot was
1 hred and there fell exhausted. Capone then
| threw away the stick, and rushed on him and
| seized him by the throat Then he unbuttoned
his (Coscia's) vest aud extracted from the
| pocket thsreof the wallet and came to where /
| was standing, took the revolver, went back to
| the dying man and discharged another abot
| into his face, and struck him with stick
| again, and then came to me and said, "Let ~
| go now, have split his skull" About 80 feet
| farther on he washed his hands and face and
tore Off the wristbands OF his shirt, which
| were saturated with blood, and whom he ar
| rived at the bridge crossing to Bangor, he
threw the revolver into the river.
we went to store and drank bottle Of beer
| each, with another young man whom we met
on the way TO Bangor. Afterwards we went
| to see Master Dominica, boss Of tho work, and
not finding him we went into another store
and bought ten cents worth Of rum, while
Capone placed on the bar $40 bill. handed
the money to the bartender, but Capone got
| the change.
Having left the rum-shop, Capone handed
me $50 on condition that would not mention
the fact of the murder. We went and drank
again, and he had bottle of beer and l two.
We went home about o'clock p. M, and at
o'clock next morning Capone washed his
clothes. About O'Clock on the Sth OF Septem-
Der, Capone came to me and wanted to borrow
some money but 1 answered that could not
favor him in that respect, and Capone told me
to give him the $50 l got from him, and az
ceded to his request
The police came and found the clothes of
Capone still stained with blood, and having
inquired with whom Coscia was on the 7th
they arrested both of us. As soon as found
myself imprisoned wrote a few lines to be
interviewed desiring to expose the whole at
| fair as it took place. Then Capone, as soon as
| he understood his situation, maliciously ac-
| cused me of the murder.