New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-28
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
TIE WIFE WAS THE CAUSE OF THE MURDER.
auE rs HELD As ACCESSORY TO THE KILLING
OF FRANKLOsA. WHICH CoTTo HAS



ADMITTED.
Jeremiah Cotto. the Italian, who was arrested on
sunday charged with the murder Of Louis Franhlosa
early on Saturday morning at Foryninth-st and Fort
Hamilton ave. New Utrecht, outside the Brooklyn city
limits, was arTaigncd before Police Justice Iighe IN
Tho Butler street Court yesterday morning He
,leaded not guilty and was remanded until July 10
Mary Josephine Franklosa. the wife OF the dead man.
vas arraigned for being accessory. she also
pleaded not guilty and rcmanded till the same oaS
,he was taken before superintendent CampDen ana
hero broke down and told story which the superih
endent regards clearing up the whole case
It's substance was as follows She Is thirty years olu
md has three children the eldest seven years anu tno
foungest six months. Her husband leit the HOUSE,
,ctween IL and 10 O'Clock on Friday night 10 s.eai
vegetables Cotto followed him. The two men had
dten quarrelled about her. When Co'to returned ne
old her that he had murdered her husband nio
clothes and shoes were covered with blood These nc
washed. The clothes he tore into strips, ana ai'er
mixing them with large quantity Oh oiu r'Hs So"
them to some iunkmen. The shoes ne put III VIC
basement Then he made arrangements 10 sell .Ne
furniture in the house. The couple paeAoo up "l''
goods they had and decided TO go on toeethcr' enc
sid 90 IN New York where she was arrested on sun
saw. Her lover went back TO the house again ana
was there arrested. -.
Tho no,ice found Coto's shoes, still wet from hav
inc the blood washed off them In the basement VI 'i0
bense The men TO whom the clothes were soio "eo
discovered by chance. some time ago Franhlosa h1u
been fined $40 for stealing vegetables by Police Justice
grhe. His wife paid The fine. When she ldeh''neu
her husbands body and said he had gone out 10 poh
ross as they were poor she was asked wherc she gov
The money to pay the fine. She said she porrowou !"
kam Joseph and Tony Pace. junk dealers al for"'
secons-st. and secondave. The police went 10 then.
dhey denied this but said they had been asked 10 s
n was true They said they had bought rags Oh Wv
ana had sold them TO Flynn, the wholesale )uhHha' ~
The Pace brothers were arrested as VIZ
.sscs hut were afterward allowed to go on promise u
aspear when wanted -
Th. strips of the clothing which Cotto hau "oiu
svsyo sound at Flynns shop. Some pieces wero 'emv
- NJ Ken he chemist OF the Board OF mea ef on
sEnalvsis .auner Rooney will hoid an i"H"0 va
Kneust ID -. A., r,ocb,osa had informed
s.a,nst him looked angry and said she eN; lin for
~ day he weakened. The police talked WIZ WIN MD ba
'<onr honrs ard he admitted the klillng; 20 seol
vent ont al the time with traIa@osTni Frank
s'sretabes and that they quarrened tin'S The" he
rasa ncked mn a stone and threw II az NM if aray
ssyaSbed Franklosa lie Ind thrown tc AI ~ cnuiJ
&c. The house. The police hunted 1or ~ nmhIosa's
not find It, several months ago one VI nov sor the
cbiIdren died and Cotto lent him money Phi had
hnrlaI In the course Of their quarreis ,S Oot nav
often ordered him 10 GO away. but as lie oo"i" " 10y
the debt COtto rcmained the'e'