Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-19
THRILLING DRAMA.
Enacted al the End of a Chicago
Criminal Trial.
PRISONER SENTENCED TO THE ROPE

While His Wife Calls Down the yenseancs
of Heaven or Those Who Helped Con-
vict Him-A Short Distance Away the
Widow Of His Victim Thanks God for q
just Verdict and That Her Husbands
Slayer Must Die.
CHICAGO, April 19-Death was the ve..
dict of the jury that tried Silverio Borelli,
the italian politician. The reading OF
the jury's finding by Clerk Adam Routh
In Judge Stems court gave rise to q
dramatic scene. The slayer of Dominick
Parento hid his agitation for the few
moments that took him to walk out Of
the trial room to the Jail. But there he
broke down utterly. His cries were heart
rending. In the corridor of the court
room the cries of his wife were even more
terrible. Screaming at the top OF her
voice the woman vowed terrible venge-
ance on Assistant States Attorney Todd,
who prosecuted her husband Still an
other woman poured forth torrent of
fierce emotion in the main lobby outside
the corridor She was the widow of the
murdered man. At her feet shs placed
her baby, a wee thing she had carried to
the court in her arms.
The Widows Thirst for Flood.
Kneeling Mt the side of the infant the
woman, with her face snow-whitc and
her eyes ablaze with emotion, lifted her
head upward and in a voice Of piercing
intensity thanked God that justice was
done. The woman thirstei for the blood
of the murderer. Her agitation made her
nv, . h., f,II
from her parched lips she uttered them
with maniacal fury. THANK God, just
verdict has been rendered that will do
justice to the widow and orphans. Dom.
mick, you are avenged-avengel May
your spirit rest in peace. Oh, that was a
just verdict. Poor Dominick! You were
killed for nothing. Now your murderer
shall die; aye, die-die on the gallows."
The Woman Who will lie n Widow.
This fury was even exceeded by Mrs.
Borelli, whose husband by this time was
behind the bars in one of the doomed
cells. The woman seemed crazed. All
the intensity end passion Of the hot blood
of South Europe blazed from her eyes and
followed her every gesture. She, too.
thirsted for blood. She wanted the blood
OF the police, of Mr.. Todd, of the wit.
nesses, of the jury. She gave one piercing
scream after another. Shcs CRASHED her
teeth. She turned wildly from one side
to another, gesticulating every moment
and pouring forth a torrent of denuncia-
ton. Friends of both women finally in
duced them to be somewhat calmer; then
led them away.
Borelli Dissolves I'm Tears.
A vast crowd of the countrymen of the
man in the dock filled the court chamber.
His friends stood mute, surprised, glaring
around the room, when they heard the
death penalty recommended. Yet those
whose eyes glittered with the fierce hatred
they bore the accused reverently stepped
aside for the passage of the widow OF the
murdered man. The agitation of the two
women whom the tragedy affected in the
court room was equaled In different way
by the murderer in the doomed cell. He
seemed dissolved in tears. Not even a
hint of nerve did he show. Such crying
from a man was rarely seen by the jail
officials. He sat on a low stool. with his
elbows on his knees his hands supporting
his face, with his head bent down. Back
and forth his body swayed from the hips
up, and in time to this movement he de-
livered wild Calabrian chant of most
doleful and monotonous cadence.
The Crime He Committed.
His utter lack of courage made him n
pitiful object. The wretch's grief, how
ever, protected him from the approach of
mere sightseers, and left to himself the
faint-hearted murderer, who killed his
man from behind, to pour out the anguish
| of his soul in sobs and tears, chanting his
weird song of death all the time. His
crime briefly told was the murder of Pa
| rento without word of warning. The
men had Quarrelled and Borelli had been
ordered OUT OF Parento's house. For this
he waylaid Parento, knocked him down
with brass knucks and then shot him to
death. The men had been lifelong
friends and quarreled over Boreili's treat
ment OF his wife. She went to Parento's
house for her husband (where he was
playing cards with Parcnto). because the
baby was sick. He wouldn't 60 home,
but struck his wife, repeating the blow
| when Parento demonstrated with him.
| Than ha uaS 0r.1arad ore and than ha m