Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-15
SLAYER GIVES HIMSELF UP
And Confesses Says He Thought He Was
 LE Burglar.
lCERS NOT EXACTLY SATISFIED
9JS er.s Ina uest Begins Nednecday Bo-n- = z g-Bioody Scene at the Morgue.
 The Slayer's Attorney Advises i Him Not to Talk.

wardens office in the city jail an Italian lay dead yesterday morning.
 The body presented Shastly spectacle. An ugly black cut, almost large enough to permit the insertion of a human hand, yawned in his throat. There were other gashes, one on the upper lip, slicing through the mustache nearly to the teeth, one behind the ear and one on the fore head dumb witnesses of the awful exc cution of a savage blade. The dead mans name was Giovannie Sherota. The deed was committed Sunday night by Frank Napole another Italian, who claims that he killed Sherota through mistake. be- lieving him to be burglar or assassin.
 Napole keeps little restaurant adja- cent to the corner building on Second avenue and Twenty-fourth street. He says that when he went to retire Sunday night he was startled by a noise in his sleeping apartment in the rear of the restaurant. Seizing an Iron bar he walked in and found a form in his bed. He struck the intruder on the head with the implement when the occupant of the couch sprang out on the floor. Then Ma pole says he drew his knife and cut, with the above fatal result. Next door, on the corner Frank Canepa, fellow country man has a small grocery shop. The WOunueu man was d cleFk III CdHtpd $ place and was well known to Canepa and Napole Napole ran to Canepa's store, it is said, and waking him told him of the affair, saying at the time that he feared he had made frightful mistake. When the two went back to Napole's sleeping room they found Giovanni, the clerk, weltering in his life blood on the floor. Word was sent to police headquar- ters and two flying steeds quickly carried Officers Byars and Walker to the spot. Napole was arrested and immediately locked up in the city prison.
 The police are not satisfied with the account of the killing as given by Napole, and yesterday morning Frank Canap3 and his wife were arrested on charge of suspicion. Coroner Dusenberry, when notified of the killing, empaneled jury, who after viewing the body were dis missed to await the call of the coroner. The inquest will be held, it is said, Wednesday morning.
 Canapa's Story.
 Frank Canapa who is held by the po- lice on suspicion, last night expressed himself as follows to a State Herald re- porter:
 This boy Giovanna (which is John in Itlian) worked for me as my clerk. He has always been 6 good worker and clerk, except he would drink hard now and then. I paid him $1 week and his board and washing just the same as if 
 Well, Sunday he was drunk again and went away in the morning. In the after- noon he came back and walked in the store. My wife and I were standing there, and he spoke to us. laughing. We could see he was drunk, staggering. Then he says, Frank, you have no water, and took the two buckets and went to fill them at the well on Morris avenue. Two buckets of water are heavy in that condition to carry, and he bargained with a tO fetch them. promising to pay the negro cents. The negro brought the buckets to First avenue and claimed his hire. When John refused the negro emptied the pails and came on down past my place with John (GiovannD, few feet behind him, loudly crying to ms in Italian to stop the negro, and l, not knowing what the trouble was, did stop him. The negro explained 1t to me, ana John walked in front of the negro and, shook his fist in his face and cursed him in our native tongue. I made the negro leave, and John then complained to me for not fighting the negro He grew angry with me and cursed me l told him to go to bed, but he continued to curse. and then I got angry, just as nybody would. and told him if he did not leave I would throw him into the street and wouldn't care what became of him. He left and I never saw him again until he was lying on the noor with his throat cut.
 After John left I attended to my bus mess till closing time. That night the boy, Napole, who has a fish stand next to me- and I were sitting in front of my store talking I said that it was about time to quit work and bid him good night. That was about ten minutes after 10 o'clock. I spent few minutes looking about and then retired. In short tiine, very few minutes, I was awakened by a loud humping at my front door. opened the door leading from my bed- room into the store and called. but no answer came. Thinking 1t might be John called in Italian, but received no reply Then I got back in bed I had hardly got in it when a loud humping came at my window, and I heard Napole crying Frank. Frank, l went in my room and thought there was burglar and l hit him and now am afraid It IS John. I jumped up and we went back together with lamps. John was tumbling about in a lot of blood on the floor. My God I said to Napole, what have you doneE I asked him if he couldn't know 1t was John, one of his countrymen when he spoke after he was hit, but Napole said he did not speak. It is my opinion that the blow from the iron dazed him. When he did mot speak Napole cut him. notl- fled the police and you know the rest.
 Napole's attorney, MT. B. NJ. Allen, ad- vised him not to talk, but his statement as set out above Is substantially what he has to say regarding the killing.
 The knife used was butcher knife, lr is said and not pocket knife.
 The active and shrewd officers, ChleI of Police Mcdonald and Captain Don- aldson. are leaving nothing undone 70 discover anything of suspicious nature connected with the killing.
 The dead man was about AS years Of age. and had been in Canapa's employ for number of years. He had no rela- lives in the city. Napole, his slayer, is a youth about 20 years old. He leased the stand on Twenty-fourth street from Canapa and had been there about two weeks nnlY though be has been in the