The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-04
CAUGHT A MURDERER. !.
Clever Work of Two
Keen Detectives at
Newark. -: s.. ::
CAPTURE OF CARROzzI. ::
The italian Criminal Finally
Landed Behind the Prison i.
Bars. ~: ::
sTABB1NG WAS HIS MANIA.
Others Beside His Los Angeles:
Victim Suffered From-Hls T.
Stiletto. -, :.
CAPTURE OF CARRozz1.
sTABBING WAS HIS MANIA.


NEWARK, N. J., July 3.-Juan or
Giovanni Carrozzl, one of the most des-e
perate Italian criminals in the country;
was arrested in vacant lot near Aqueduct ;
and O'Connell streets at 6:15 o'clock this.
evening by Detectives Cosgrove and Car
roll of police headquarters on charge of
numbering Roy Benner, a colored black
smith, in Los Angeles on December 20,
| 1894. He was captured after clever work
on the part of the Newark detectives, after
the police of several cities and the Pinker-
ton detectives had failed to catch him.
After the murder in Los Angeles, which
was done in cold blood, Carrozzi fled to the
| East, and has been living in the boarding
house kept by Michael Zoillo, at 121 Sixth
avenue.
Carrozzi, before he left Newark, in 1893,
| was wanted for stabbing Donate Scaapohe
at Ii South Canal street, this city. Sea-
apone received five stab wounds, and his
| life was despaired of for long time. Be
fore he came to this country he had served
seven years in an Italian prison for
numbering man there. After Carrozzi
had stabbed Scaapone and fled to Los
| Angeles he was located in that city by de- .
| tectives Carroll and Cosgrove. He showed
| HIS CuuHlLS tnS1CJ lOL WlASlA AiC- 4lloIiCO
letters to his wife, who remained in this
city, he first sent them to friend in
| Buenos Ayres, Argentine, who remailed
them, SO that they bore the postmark OF
! the latter place. -
| Scaapone, whom Carrozzi had stabbed,
recovered eventually, and beyond keeping
an eye on the man in Los Angeles nothing
was done to bring him back to Newark.
The Newark police were not very much
surprised when, early in January of this
year, they received q circular from Chief of
Police John Glass of Los Angeles asking
that Giovanni Carrozzi be arrested for muir
der. The picture which was inclosed was
at once identified by Chief of Police Hop
per as Carrozzi, and a watch was Kept on
the places where the man would be likely
| to go.
| Such information as could be got was
| sent to Los Angeles, and week ago yes
| terday Chief Hopper received telegram
| from that place telling him that Mrs. Car ::
rozzi, who had joined her husband last fall,
had the night before left for the East, un-
der the name of Mary Sumnio. Her ticket
! had been sent from New York, and the
ticket was purchased from Peter McDon-
nell of Broadway. She was to go to
Gerard Marino of 35 Park street, New
York The Pinkerton Detective Agency
| took up the New York end and have been
| watching the house for several days, think
| ing that Mrs. Carrozzi would be met at the
| house by her husband.
Detectives Carroll and Cosgrove in the
meantime redoubled their efforts to find
the man in Newark They had his de-
scription and a photograph of him. They
| learned that he was working for the Con-
| solidated Traction Company, and taking
covered wagon they drove through all the
gangs of workmen on the different roads.
He was not to be seen. Being told that
he was working for Stanley Bros. and for
Thomas Nevins, on the big sewer in Or
ange, they drove through these gangs,
using in the latter case field-glass. They
went along the sewer on Monday. Besides
doing this kind of work each evening
from o'clock to II at midnight and each
morning from to 6:30 O'Clock, they
were watching the house in which Car
rozzi was supposed to be hiding. This
morning they took up their post again.
Ats o'clock a man walked down Sixth
avenue and went into the house. Later he
came out with Carrozzi. They sat on the
stoop and talked in an animated manner,
and then the man walked up to Aqueduct
street and Carrozzi went into the house
again. Officer Donovan, who was with
the detectives this morning, was sent to
Aaueduct street to watch Carrozzi's COM
panion, and few minutes later Carrozz1
himself came out of the house and started
for Aqueduct street. Carroll and Cos
grove followed and they separated.
Carrozzi's companion stood in a vacant
lot on Aqueduct street, near O'Connell.
Carrozzi went up to him. The detectives
had covered the men from the corners,
and closed in on them while they were
talking. They had been warned that Car
rozzi was a desperate man, and would
fight, and precaution was taken accord
ingly. Neither of the Italians saw the de-
tectives until they were almost on them,
and it was then too late. Carrozzl strug-
gled with the police for few minutes and
then submitted. While he was having the
scuffle his friend ran away. Carrozzi was
handcuffed and then brought to police
headquarters and locked up. This morn
ing he was taken out and photographed.
He is 80 wears DID, feet s inches in height,
weighs about 145 or $50 pounds, and is
somewhat stoop-shouldered. He has very
keen dark eyes and his face has a sinister
expression. A scar on his right cheek and
a slightly fiattened nose bear witness to his
encounters in which he has been hurt, and
these with jet black hair and fierce mus
tache give him an appearance that is not
altogether pleasant. He is very handy
with knife. and had one on him when
searched this morning. Mrs. Carrozzi has
not been heard from yet. She should
have been in New York three days ago.
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