The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-12
THE SPARAN0 TRIAL BEGUN
THIRD MURDER CASE IN SUPERIOR
COURT THIS TERM.

- N"oAheu w lhn having MUIR
dered Thomas II. Fitzgerald on Decem-
Der ~ Last-witnesses Called by the
State Yesterday--Case win be Resumed
This Morning.
After Judge Prentice had sentenced
the murderer, Orlando, to life imprs-
onment in states prison yesterday
forenoon, the third murder trial of this
terms of the criminal superior court
was begun, that of Antonio Sparano,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree in stabbing to death Thomas
Fitzgerald, near the corner of Meadow
and Whiting streets on the morning of
December 81 last.
Fitzgerald had been formerly we'll
known musician in this city, but had
lived for some time previous to the
murder in Meriden The prosecution
claims that Sparano and two others, who
have escaped made a murderous as
| sault on Fitzgerald while the latter was
| on his way to the depot, on the morn
Ing in question, to board train for
J Meriden, and it is further set forth by
the state that either Sparano or one of
his two companions inflicted the wound
which caused Fitzgerald's death
4 The accused, Antonio Sparano, is
! first cousin of Lorenzo Caruso, who is
now serving a life sentence in state
prison for the murder of Ralph Del
\ Gregg. Sparano and Caruso came here
h the same town in Italy, Morrone, in
4 the province of Caserta. In the Italian
revolution in 1860 the families of Caru-
so and Sparano took to the mountains
Y and formed band of insurgents. Fin
X ally they degenerated, SO it is said, into
y a band of robbers.
The preliminary examination of
a Srarano was held nthe city court, as
the case was taken direct to the grand
4 jury and to the superior court by
Il bench warrants From this fact the
n evidence in the case of the state is not
4 known.
The jury drawn for the case is as fol-
& lows: Edison S. Alling of Hammden,
N William Wood of Middlebury, Morti-
# ner S. Treat and Frank M. Howe of
Il Milford, William Hopkins of Nauga-
ID tuck, Frederick e. Dudley of North
N Branford, John H. Todd of North Ha-
ven, Henry P. Williams of Oxford,
n Lewellyn M. Baker of Branford, Vir-
= gil H. Rose Of North Branford, Steph-
4 Ell NJ. Peck of Woodbridge, Walter H.
4 Jones of Beacon Falls.
n Stephen H. Peck, one of the jurors
n drawn, was also a juror in the Ripple
" trial
III The first witness called was Algernon
% Ccrbin, photographer. He took pic
IA! lures of the spot at the corner of Mead
III ow and Whiting streets, where the
III murder ccurred.
Ia Medical Examiner White was the
III next witness. He testified as to the
nature of the wound which he found on
y the murdered man at the time of the
IN autopsy.
u He said: On the back, near the CEN
IA ter seam of the coat was a cut an inch
N and a half wide. The cut was blood
stained, as was the lining of the coat.
Il II front, seventeen inches below the
q collar, was a six inch cut made by a
y sharp instrument like razor. On the
VI left elbow was also cut. There was
81 another cut an inch and three elghths
long. The under coat had cut in the
81 back corresponding with that In the
81 overcoat while the vest was also cut
- Though in the same place
" white bosomed shirt, deeply stained
with blood. was held up, and cut
ny shown. The whole article was stiff
with dried blood. An undershlrt OF
Wrapper thoroughly soaked with blood
Twas also offered and identified. cut
#was in this garment in the same posi-
Ntion as those in the coats. The body
Twas that of man weighing 1850 pounds
IA cut in the back, on the left side, five
HAinches from the medium line, CORE
Expended with those in the coats. The
&wound entered the chest between the
EAninth and tenth ribs through the dla-
Msphram and spleen and passed through
1.-THE large intestine, ending in the lining
Mmenbrane Of the belly. The wounc
WAS irregular, as If a movement of the
body had taken place while the knife
Twas In the intestine. The instrument
twas narrow at the point. The wound
WAS six inches deep, but it might have
Sbeen longer say seven or eight inches
8sIn the cavity Of the chest and abdomen
were three or four pints of blood
DR. White said that there was ne
smell of liquor ABOUT the Stomach. liz
dead man was about forty-five or fifty
years Of age.
N The next witness called was Lizzie
@Garofino who sells peanuts at the cor
#ner of Whiting and Meadow streets
EAt the request TO Mr.. Fowler, who i:
Hdefending the prisoner, her father, who
n Twas in the court room, was excluded
|during her testimony, as Mr.. Fowler
Mad discovered that the testimony o
#the two at the inquest differed.
# The witness testified that she knew
ESparano, that he had been in her pea
.Ssnut stand at quarter before twelve OF
Ithe night of the murder. He wore {
Ncap and she identified the one which
&the state introduced as the one which
#he wore.
3 Witness said there were two mel
with Sparano when she say him thu
! might of the murder, but their name!
klshe did not know
She testified to seeing Sparano il
@scompany with Vincenza Alteri and an
#other man, these being the two WHIT
escaped
III Michael T. keenan,, who saw the pris
Moner at u o'clock on the night of tn,
murder on the corner of State ant
Fair streets, was called. He was will