The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-12
SHOT AT HER LOVER.
A New York Romance Of lfal-
ian Love and Hate.
AvENc'mo An OLD GRIEVANCE.


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A romane of Italssn love and hAte,
fsishisss vita. . venxeful husband and
mighty lucky lover vss told today IN the
general sessions before Escorder smyth-
The husband made the wife ire ss her
sovsr with bullets STEPPED In garlic. sccord-
sar 20 . superstition among the Italian
peasants thxt 10 steep bullet IN
Garlic puts it, effectiveness beyond
al donbk The tale vas tod Ia
the trial Of CCncetta Eos5sa, rosy
eheeked. pinmp young italian woman.
with . string OF vayiegated beads
about her rounded. tawny throat. and
every color of The rsinbow In her attire
Her shining ebony black hair vss confined
i'm I knot uron the back OF her head and
golden daxrsr pierced the knot She was
tried mon An Indictment charging her
With assam 1 in the first degree in firing
loaded pEssoi twics ~ the head Of Giuseppe
Aliansalo. trim young Italian with thick
curing hair and the moustache OF m ope-
ratio tenor.
Aiisnxilo testified that ~ he stood upon
the stoop Of the house at 7o1 James
strest, where he lived, on the morning OF
March 2, Coucefta Rosifa. who lived a. IL
James street, and was the wife OF his
former friend. Peppito Rosita. approached
the stoop and said hat she had some
thing to tell him. As he leaned forward
10 Iistsn she pointed pistol At his head
and fred twice. The bullets whistied past
his ear.
Under croes-examination Lawyer Wester-
field. for the defence. drew out that Con-
cesta Rosiis and the witness were very good
friends Ia italy and that he had boarded
with her husband and herself in this city
until few days before the shooting. when
he had been ordered out OF the house by
her husband.
Policeman John Canayan corroborated
AlisneIlo about the shooting, which he
ehancsd 10 sse. bat he thought that Con-
cetta R0sita fred three shots instead OF
two. Then Assistant District Attorney
Jerome, the prosecutor. rested. The de-
fendant testified in her own behalf through
the ofiieisl interpreter.
II knew Ailaneilo In Italy" she said.
when We were very young. We grew up
and loved him and he loved me. But
married Peppito Rosita. Alianelio came
to live In our home when he came from
Italy three months ago. My love for him
rame 70 life again. Ny husband came
home one evening and found US together.
He told Aiixnsiio that be would kill him,
and he turned us both into the street But
he took me back into his home again.
One day not long ago he went with
me to shop In the Bowery and bought
. pistol. He took out the cartridges
and made me practice In aiming
and pulling the trigger. Thcn Reloaded II,
first rubbing the cartridges with garlic,
altar the fashion of our country when we
mean bullet for our enemy's heart. Then
he said: You must 20 and kill AiiancIlo
II you don't kill him / will kill you. II
you don't kill him by tomorrow morning
you can count yourself dead That was
saturday. the LIST OF March. Ny husband
took me late that afternoon la where the
isrsyhoas lands that brings Aiianello from
his work. Ny husband told me 10 kill him
As be came from the boat: but my husband
went away and did not watch for Ala
nello. went home and told my husband
that did not see Aiianello. My husband
kept the pistol under his pillow that night.
and was afraid that he would kin me.
He told me that he would pardon me and
love me forever II would kill AiiancIlo
NEXT day. / told him that would be put
III " A1Qth ~ AlttEo natSh0nVs w. ut
said, you are . woman. The law will de
fend you.'
The next morning my husband took
me 10 Atianelio's house and told me TO so
IN AiianeiIo'a room and kill him. l went
to the room, but stayed there long time
and l did not try to kill Alianeilo or tell
him that was sent there 10 take his life
] went down 10 the street again and 1 told
my husband that Alianello was not in the
house. Just then Alianello came out upon
the stoop. Ny husband. who was hiding
behind pile OF hoxes, said: Go now and
kill him. | went 10 Alianello, aud when
he bent down 10 talk 10 mc put the pistol
near his ear and fired. I did not aim at
him. fired again in the air. did not
wish 10 Kill him. because l love him very
mueh.n
Then the woman broke down and sobbed
and wept.
In his charge 10 the jury Recorder Smyth
said: I'm an experience of nine or ten
years uron the bench OF a criminal court.
which IL certainly equivalent to service
OF eighteen or twenty years In any othei
court. 50 far ~ education in the phase of
htlman nature is concerned. must con-
tess that this il the most extraordinary
case that has come before me-"
The recorder charged the Jury as to the
iawiseiating 20 the coercion 81 wife by q
husband 60 do an unlawful act The coer-
cson he charged. 10 make tho defendant
eaeusshse. must he exercised by the has-
hand being actually present and partici-
rssing In the unlawful acs and compelling
the wife to do her part by threats OF the
most serious nature.
The jury convicted Concctta OF assault in
the second degree. Recorder Snyth sen
tsncesi her 10 the penitentary for three
years She Was led weeping from the bar.