The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-08
ABBATE COMMITTED
TO COUNTY JAIL
Was Given Formal Hearing Before
Mayor Bailey 10 Police Court
he ADMITTED KILLING RIAMONDl
Identified the Revolver with Which
the Fatal Shots Were Fired--He
Denied That 1t Was the Property of
Sebastiano sparoceni--says He
Shot Frank Russo Because He Mis-
took Him for Riamondi's Brother.
Russo's Condition.

developments yesterday in the South
Side murder strongly indicate that
Charles Abbate deliberately killed Vito
Riamondi, after having had abundant
time to premeditate. Several persons
says that Abbate at various times
limited at the approaching vengeance
which he wreaked.
The murderer was given a formal
hearing by Mayor James G. Bailey
yesterday morning in police court and
was sent to the county Jail to await
trial. giuseppe Abbate, his brother,
and Sebastiano Sparoceni, tile other
two men who were in the party at tie
time OF the shooting, were held under
$500 bail as witnesses. Abbate furn-
ished bondsman in Emil Maxiom, of
the South Side. Sparoceni is still in
JAIL
Frank Russo, the man who was shot
in Schimpff's court after Raimondi had
been killed on Birch street, is still
alive but has by no means passed the
danger mark. At the Lackawanna hos
pital, where he is being cared for,
Russo spent a comfortable night after
the shooting, and his robust constitu-
ton withstood with remarkable sue
cess the severe operation he under
went.
A DELICATE OPERATION.
DR.. c. r. Parke, the house surgeon
at the hospital, said last night that he
had hopes of Russo's recovery, but
that was all that could be said for
him. The operation performed Mon
day night on the wounded man by Dr.
Parke is one of the most difficult known
to surgery, and the first of it's kind
was performed as recently as eleven
years ago. 1t is a desperate chance
taken to save a life, and no matter
how skillfully performed it not al
ways successful.
In performing the operation Monday
night Russo's trunk had to be opened
and portions of the intestines taken
out and placed on warm cloths on the
operating table, where rents made in
them by the bullet were sewed up Rus
SOS great vitality may assist him in
pulling through. At all events he has
a better chance of recovery in conse-
quence. The greatest danger to be
feared is that in moving he may cause
the stitches in the thin intestines to
pull through and allow matter to drop
into the abdominal cavity In that
case death would in all probability re-
suit.
At the hearing at 1890 o'clock yes
terday morning Abbate, the murderer
whose first name in italian is Sarverie,
admitted shooting Riamondi He was
not excited or agitated, and went
through the ordeal in a matter of fact
way. He is slender and tall, fair as
to complexion, and has small, light
mustache. He talks English broken
ly and Patrolman Sartor acted as in
terpreter.
IDENTIFIED REVOLVER.
Abbate calmly said that he knew
he was arrested for shooting a man,
and when Mayor Bailey handed him
the revolver the prisoner quietly took
it and gave it a thorough inspection
He said it was the weapon ne had
used. 1t had been stated that Sebas-
tianC Sparoceni had given the revolver
to Abbate. The murderer, at the hear
ing, denied this, saying that he him
self had purchased it in Scranton. He
gave his version of the quarrel with
Raimondi identically as given in The
Tribune yesterday.
He had asked the two other men to
mondi took offense. Dr. A. Kolb,
Henry Deising, Joe Abpate and Spra-
oceni each testified to the manner of
the shooting.
Jacob Raimondi brother of the MUIR
dered man, in his testimony hinted
at a probable conspiracy to kill his
brother, He charged that Sparoceni,
the witness, had told him an hour be-
fore the murder that Raimondi was
going to die. He called Joe Abbate as
witness. Abbate stated that an hour
before the shooting Sparoceni told him
something would happen before night.
This was all the evidence given in sub
sanitation and Mayor Bailey did not
think it sufficient to hold Sparoceni on
any charge.
THOUGHT 1T WAS THE BROTHER.
Abbate, the murderer. gives as his
reasons for shooting Frank Russo that
he mistook linn for Riamondi's brother
at whose house In Schimpff's court the
dead man boarded. He thought Raj
mondi was going to attack him, so he
fired.
Abbate was taken to the county jail
| yesterday afternoon in the patrol
wagon by Patrolman Reese Jones and
Patrolman Dyer.
The murderer was placed in cell g.
corridor 3. No other murderer has ever
been incarcerated in this cell. Abbate
shows no emotion whatever and takes
his confinement nonchalantly.
Coroner Longstreet yesterday held an
autopsy on the body of Vito Raimondi
at Storr's undertaking establishment,
where the remains rested over night
Coroner Longstreet found that one of
the balls had penetrated the fifth rib,
passing through and tearing an inch
gap in the heart, through the left lung
and diaphram and lodging in the flesh
at the back. Another ball pierced the
breast bone. penetrated the right lung
and lodged in the shoulder muscles.
The third ball passed through the calf
OF the left leg. Either of the two first
mentioned bullets would cause death.
GREAT NERVOUS FORCE.
The fact that Raimondi did not fall
Immediately and that he struggled for
an instant from falling Is taken as a