The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-11
TO EXHgME 2ANOLrS E A
CRAVE or IRE LAST Of TIE FOUn
INSURED WIVES TAKEN FIRsE

Death-Has Collected 60. Osl insurance on
Seven Cases, Has Pslicies on Himself. m,u
First Father-in-Law. ana His Sen Standing.
and Was About Marrying wire Ne. T..
Gays His wife Lena Killed His paurhten
hottie-HIa son Has Been 70 -Four Fupernls,
The police have as yet no diroct evidence
warranting q charge OF murder against Charles
Zanoli. tho barber who has buried four wives, Q
mother.in-law. a daughter, and an employee
and has collected Sc, 9s1.25 Of insurance upon
their lives. Zanoli Is still held simply for do
fraudinE the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany. He will be arraigned before Magistrate
Meade in the Centre Street Police Court this
morning. and tho Magistrate will DO asked to
remand him to Police Headquarters. This will
be at 10 O'Clock, and at the same hour District
Attorney Olcott will apply to , Justice Of the
supreme Court for an order permitting the en-
humation OF the body OF Jennie Sumner, Zanolio
fourth and last wife. who died on Aug. 0 last
insured for 81. 600. and was buried in ST.
Michael's Cemetery. Astoria.
District Attorney Olcott decided to apply fo1
this order after he had had q conference with
Capt. McClusky. Chief Of the Detective Bureaus
DR.. J. Walter Lyman Of 434 West Thirty.fourth
street, and DR.. James f. Harris OF 229 East
124th street. The doctors wore called in to at
tend Zanoli's third and fourth wives respcc-
lively. From the statements of the doctora,
Mr.. Olcott concluded that there are grave
doubts whether the actual cause OF death was
that given in the certificates signed by the
doctors.
Zanoli strenuously denies that he is q muir
derer, and at the mention of any of his do
ceased wives he weeps copiously. The record Of
deaths and OF insurance moneys collected which
stands against Zanoli now is rs follows:
Ipnpoltina nern nnthnr of Zannli'a 0rat utfn
died at III Elizabeth street, Oct. IT. 1894
Coroner's case. Certificate of death signed by
Deputy Coroner Weston. Cause Of death. fatty
degeneration Of the heart. Insurance collected.
Sl1o of the Prudential Life Insurance Company
and $40 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Total 1920,
Maria Dern. married to Zanoli under the
name OF Zanoli. in 1888. Died at 90 Rivington
street. June IA. 1895. Death certificate given
by DIR. John G. Weber. ~ Rivington street.
Cause Of death. apoplexy. Insurance collected.
$lo3 from the Metropolitan Life Insurance.
Company and $lO3 from the Prudential Life
Insurance Company. Total 5000.
Lottie Zanoli. Zanoli's daughter by his first
wife. died Oct. 10. 1895. Cause Of death said to
have been brain fever. No official record. In.
surance collected, $50 Of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company. and $50 from the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company. Total, 500.
Lena Werner. married to Zanoli under the
name of Zanoli at 429 East Eightythird street
In September. 1895; died at 2306 Second ave-
nue.. Nov. 25, 1895; death certificate signed by
DR.. Daniel J. Sheehan, III East 10th street;
cause Of death, cerebral hemorrhage and acute
melancholia; insurance collected, 81. 900 from
the Knights and Ladies' OF Honor.
William Schmidt died at 465l2 Tenth avenue
tbarber shop kept by Zanoli under the name
Brauncl July l3. 1896. Certificate Of death
signed by DR.. Thomas J. F. Murphy of 427
West Thirty.fourth street, Cause Of death. sun
stroke. Insurance collected by Zanoli on a pol
icy on the life Of Charles Zanoli from the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company. $355.25.
Louisa Herzig. married to Zanoli. under the
name of Charles Braune. in March. 1896. at 2ll
East Seventy-third street. Died Dec. Is, 1896.
at 500 West Thirty-sixth street. Death certih-
cate signed by DR.. Walter ]. Lyman OF 43A
West Thirty-fourth street. Cause OF death
apoplexy and calcareous degeneration of the
blood vessels. Insurance collected, $3.50 from
the Prudential Life Insurance Company, $3.50
from the John Hancock Insurance Company,
and 81, 900 from the Golden Cross Insurance
Company. Total. SO. 800.
Jennie Schlessinger. married to Zanoli under
the name OF Charles SUMNER in April, 1897, No
24s East 125th street. Died Aug. 9, 1897. at
24s East 125th street. Certificate Of death
signed by Dr.. G. f. Barton OF 70i East l42d
street and DR.. James Z. Harris OF 229 East
124th street. Cause of death. typhoid fever.
heart failure, coma. Insurance collected. 81, 900
from the Order OF United Friends and 5000 from
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. To-
tai. 81. 600. Grand total. S6.9sl. 25. II the wo-
mans insurance in the United Friends was
$4,000. as DIR. Burton states. the total will be
s .9sl.25.
Zanoli had no fifth wife, though he said on
Thursday that he had. Detectives Aloncle and
Carey learned yesterday that on Wednesday
Zanoli gave up his apartments at 24s East l25th
street and moved to 2526 Seventh avenue, where
he hired an apartment under the name OF
Charles Wagner. He moved nearly all OF his
effects into the Seventh avenue fiat on Thurs
day morning and told the janitor that he ex.
pectcd his wife would be there that night
| or the following morning.
Where Zanoli expected to get another wife 10
explained by his own statement to Capt. Mo-
Clusky yesterday afternoon. To the Captain
Zanoli said that on last Tuesday he replied TO an
ad advertisement which he had read in the Stats
Zeitung. inserted by II woman living in Brook
Ign. who advertised for a place as housckeeper.
In reply to his answer to the advertisement,
Zanoli says, he received q postal card from the
woman asking him 10 call upon her. On Wednes-
day he sent a reply 10 the postal card, saying
that it would be, impossible for him to call
business. but he told the woman that she
might call on him at his barber shop, It the cor.
ner of Warren street and West broadway.
whenever she felt like it. On Thursday morn:
ing, a few hours before his arrest. he received
another postal card from the woman. in which
she said that she would call that afternoon at s
o'clock. The woman called, IL has been learned.
but Of course Xanoli did not see her. He was
then q prisoner at Police Headquarters. He got
his last three wives by answering German news
paper advertisements.
Detective Carey had a talk with Charley
Zanoli, the harber's s.yearold son, yesterday
morning. The boy was at hiS fathers shop. In
answer TO questions the lad said that ne had had
three names.
"Atthe Ludlow street school" he said. !" was
called Charley Zanoii; at The West Thirty.
seventh street school my name was Charley
Braune, and at the East 10Th street school my
name was Charley SUMNER MY last malnIns
died three or four months ago. She had an
awful pain in her head and died about 3 o'clock
in the morning. Say, mister. We been TO four
funerals. When did my sister lotlIe dicf On,
that WAS ever 30 long ago. | can't remember
when that was; but she bad q sore head thap
panied her and then she died.
Ii may be said III passing that Ianoii holds .
life insurance policy on the life of his little boy,
which will be worth $50 when, the lad is ~
90 f-"E sd