The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28
KILLED FOR HIS WIFE'SSAKE.
rRs AND THE MURDERER
nv HER HUSBAND CONFESa


T.sins or or tho Husbaad-Cotto Re.
..rn.s 60 the wire After the Deed and
shoved Her tho nioody knife.
NJ. murder OF tho italian raRpicker. Louis
r..nEoioao. at Forty.ninth street md Fort
ra,n,l,on avenue. Just outside OF the Brooklyn
10. i,riIs has been cleared IN. Frankeloso
Wv, ,onnd dead on tho highway at 8 O'Clock on
Sa,u,inv morning with eleven Stubs In his
-, aud sboulders. A bag c, ntainIng vece-
.ss,os which tho man evidently had stolen
80, 7. New Utrecht farm. was picked up near
,ho hody Although the murder was commit
I'd on,side OF the Brooklyn boundaries, super
,nt.ndent Campbell sent Detective sergeants
nmrns npd Ryan and the italian policeman
T..n.,i to work GU the case. Yesterday after
noon superintendent Campbell maue tn's
s,a,sment to the reporter Of THE SuN:
The case has been fully cleared up. NO
,,,s,ake was made In the nrrost OF Jeremiah
ro,,o and Mrs. Maria Josephine FranReoso'
,ha wife OF the murdered mau. yesterday. COT
% ,ommi ted the murder. and Mrs flahke-
Io.o was an accom- plice after the act II not Pc
tore. Both have confessed. Cotto to the Kill
,.r and the woman to tho fact that Cotto told
~, ali about il as So n as he got home There
!. NO, single link in the whole cnse missing.
sxcept the long sharp-pointed, white-nahaieo
tnile with which the murder was committed.
and IL will probably be in our possession oe-
fore many hours. ,..
h,,re LI he break down and confess. When he
,.J Gnnllv enseL his mind he wept like II child.
I,hint that Cot;o determined to do away with
rroteloso 40 That lie might live with his wife.
and that the woman u probably coGniznnt OF
his murlvrous iulenti"as. ,, H..
Cotto Is ,yLlsa, ia an o. . , 'o of saht hui
M,rr iH,ild, and has dark. restless eyes. Appar-
Sniiy he il about 30 years OH. lie icIt VIE
IN M i1 months m ago il is said that MI trnnkc-
ios0. WITH whom ne was a,'lMalMtel IN dta'S;
paid his passaie Ain.I has no csn viii Frank
sioso and his. vie in thu ltn''1 N tenement
Iouso at l5a Tweny-lfth s,i.St Brooky ni ,or
;mo time the sIN-mon tbs old baby alonn
iiyeI al home. the otner Two stopi,inx WIN
rank loso AMI CotrU. thu police think. jointiy
Engaged in foru.;ing rXpeditions gu New
Utrecht farms and participates IN a hume, 0us
sioso WINS arrested for etealinE eye ublcs AMI
bis vile paid tho slg fine which WIS i,nposoa
oS Tqfe The ss stec,vss lave earned tint hs
money wns got from Cotto and II IS - tho!ght
aty to so M. hasten. a
Inc his death. On saturday afternoon Mrs.
Frankeloso and Cote. aft returning ,i from
S as %0, Vent to the ThgJ avenue station:
There lilo woman told the detectives
hs had h como oS on was
TO pick rags 70 as to Keen tho chlldren from
sarnr one OF tho de,eetTes IN nnia t9n
ia Justice lighe's court to get him out OF
prison. and he asked her where size , got the
Il iiom lie Tie fepq Brothers; rug dealers f.
fouih Drookyn; The detec,iyes immeSla'sly
iSst Sss IL false and that the oney had See
furnished by Cotto, they suspected Cotto and
IN. oman and their arrest quickly followed.
Gs nnS Coo ia the
house. when he was preparing Tor departure
morning ,i 10: to Superintendent Campbell Shortly
alter she was brought to io!ise heaSSguHnr.ers:;
writing. but ii was substantially as follows;
.Se el ii and Il o'clock on Friday nisht to
seal Vegetables on the outskirts OF the ely
inaw ss. h Gnn n.nGsa % shs
% the house alone: be .oid Ler that
clothine.b -es, ecisIIy tho lever part Of his
s eohuS eFe II II and
with about 900 pounds Of rags. which he sold
on saturday to the Pepo Brothers. Ills shoes
SINK and washed them of. They then con;
GUIDED that they would run of together; and
sun in the Iou ps Alter they had /"
tho house from tho Morgue She concluded to
cn over 70 Crosby street. and she was there
waiting the arrival OF Co,to on sunday morn.
tnX when she was arrested
The woman declar, that she had no knowl;
wh On he followed him cut on his ioraeing ex-
edition on FRIDAY night. She also d-nied That
any improper relations existed between her
decd was done. that she wished to 60 OF and
live IN some other city with Cote.
The confession OF Cottr. like that OF the wo.
man. was not put on paper but was made In
the presence OF the Superin' endent. Detective
ssfsean, Ryan and rssemnn Irepnn The
superintendept says that he has not told the
fun story. His statement. was that he and
to steal vege ables. and that having filed their
bagn they started home. and began 10 quarrel
ns s nsy shes P ss M s
was over some money which Frankeloso owed
him transeloso ricked MP big tone and
with their knives. Feeling that his own lie
WA 10 danger hes plunged the knife repeat
10 had killed him, hurried home aud told Mrs.
tIanKs,loso what he had done. lie denied that
ne ha az planned ITO murder but
husband bus, 10 some way so hat they might b
o Ih' ~ Sls rsr 2, costSs 3semens WAS
had had m made the suggestion about getting rid Of
co,to closed hi- story bv telling the Sunerin.
t0ndent now he lind disposed OF the bloody
clothing and the knife with which he had done
the killing; He brought the knife home with
him. he said. and showed 1t. still covered with
6lo sS; to the murdered mans wife. After
lance trom the house and buried it under a
pile 81 rubbish He could tell exactly the spot,
ne SAID. where the knife was Superiu-
tendent Campbell sen! Ryan and Trerani
Gmn with him. 20 look for tho knife.
prisoner took hem to nile Of rubbish near the
Iwenty-flfth street house. but that they con d
Ee, en- no trace otthe kniie and 1t is supposed to
neighborhood Ihe Superintendent will make
strenuous eflortto recover II. 20 ms to make
.ne case nbsoutel, G mrlete. lie has rerov-
FREQ every stitch OF Cotios torn clothing from,
f 9e dig rag pile In Jsnkman Fiynn's shop Ia
The clothing. ma wall as the boota, which
analysis. The Inquest will be held on Aug. ia
September. '""0 ''"'' ~
In q, further statement to a detective las,
ntEnt Cotto declared that Mrs. FraLkelosa In
atleated the murder. She told me-" he Snid
him." A"' "'su' on'e0sA A!neo
.. ISe police theory y that Cotto laid his plans
Sa.eiuily iof the murder and stealthiiy stole
n uenlnd his vict:n with the knife as the