The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-15
LOUNNETTE CONVICTED
The Jury Find Him Guilty
of Murder in the Second
Degree-SentenCed.

The jury in the Lounnettesmurder trial,
after celebrating for one hour aud fifteen
MINUTES this afternoon returned q verdict
OF murder in the second degree.
Judge Lippincott Immediately sem
fenced the prisoner to twenty years in
| State Prison, this being the extreme
| penalty of the law.
After ex-Judge DAILY opened Lounnette's
defense, yesterday afternoon, a number
of with esses were called for the purpose
| of showing that for days before Lounette
killed Fazziolo, the latter hal threaten
ed TO kill him. The most important Of
these witnesses were Philip Raimondo
and his wife.
Philip Raimondo te~stlfisd:-"I knew
Fazziolo. l talked with him fifteen
days before Lounnette shot him. FaZ-
ziole told me he would kill Lounnette
and throw him out Of a window. l told
| Lounnette this. After FaZzielo was killed
l told many persons of this conversation.
/ told it to Judge DAILY at his office in
Hopoken. l did not tell 1t at he corouer's
| inquest, for l was not called as a wit
ness.p
Caynatini Raimondo. Philips wife.
tes~tified:-"I was agoing to tell Loun-
nette of The threats of Fazzinlo, but he
killed Fazziolo before / coulo."
Later, the witness admitted that she
had told Lounnette that Fazziolo intend
ed to kill him and throw him out of Il
| window, and he had better leave the
| house, 81 told eX Judge DAILY this at his
Office. I did not tell the coroner" she
said.
LoUNNETTE's STORY.
After several unImpOrtant witnesses
| gave their evidence, Lounnette was called
Co testify IN his own behalf. He said
II am twenty-five or twenty-six years
old, unmarlied; my parents are dead; |
| am aIaborer. remember September 25.
I knew Michael fazziolo.s Il saw him that
night. first saw him that night when l
was going to the stable about five O'Clock;
saw him again when 1 was coming back:
he was standing by q barroom. / saw him
that night on the stoop. After 1 had my
upper I came down stairs and asked. Is
If you go by I'll throw you in the street.
| / picked M way to the sidewalk as we'll
as | could, and then asked him why he
refused to let me pass. saying 1t was not
the first time he had abused me. /
started to go away then. and
ont my revolver and he grabbsd my arm.
l got away from him aud said, Keep
| away. Go away He followed. He had
! a knife in his hand. He came toward
me, and, while we were talking, the
pistol went of, and then I went away.
There were a lot of his friends there who
| wanted to kill me; some people told me
to 90 away, for Fazziolo and his friends
| intended TO kill me on September Is.
| Carnatinni Rsimondo was one who told
me that Fazziolo was 10 come in the
| house and throw me out of the window.
| Two DAYS before, Fazziolo told me that if
| I Hid pNt mhVa ont of th1 hnNaQ ma wnnl6
kill me. He did not say why he wanted
, me to move. | never had any other
| trouble with Fazziolo. When he told me
to move 1 packed my trunk and Intend
| ed to move Oh Tuesday. did not say to
| Fazzioio that night that | would kill him
or tina | would shoot him."
Cross-eXamined Lounnetre said:-.'I did
not believe Fazziolo and his friends
would kill me; il | had believed 1t /
would have killed them when they We're
not looking"
"Then why did you place a loaded re-
| volver in your pocket and thirteen loose
cartrldges?"
because | wanted to protect myself If
they should assault me-"
This concluded the evidence for the de-
tense.
THIS MORNINGS PROCEEDINGS.
The jury in the Lounnette case looked
tired when they arrived in Court this
morning from the Hotel Washington.
where they remained over night. Ex-
Judge Hoffman, for the defendant,
argued for more than an hou in favor of
a verdict of murder in the second degree
or -manslaughter.
Il PROSECUTORS ADDRESS.
District Attorney Winfield, in closing
for the State. said:-"I want TO enter my
SOLEMN protest against two things
counsel has said. The first is
tina monstrous one that you gentlemen
of the jury will be responsible for the
death Of this man if you convict him of
murder in the first degree. The other is
that this defendant comes from u country
whore its people have been oppressed for
cen turtles, and that he must not be judged
by the same law that you and L are judged
BIZ. His oppressed countrYmen all carry
weapon there for the innocent pastime
o I killing each other, and this defendant
| only did what WAS the custom of his
countryme When a man comes from
another country 10 this he is TO be judged
| by the same law that we are"
Mr.. Winfield mex reviewed the con-
tradicting evidence of Lounnette. and
asked what perjury was to a man VIII o
was swearing TO save his life.
Continuing, the Prosecutor declared that
there WAS not a particle of evidence to