The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-27
SAVED JUST ON THE BRINK.
OARBoNE WAS TO DIE FOR THE MUIR
DER oIdRoMELLo OoNFESsES.

ana Convicted In m Eight Houra' Trial
Now the Real murderer he Arrested ana
owns Up-RevonEe the Motive OF the Crime.
At the time Of Angelo Carbone's conviction
for the murder of Natalie Brogno, on Sept. IL
of last year, there was much favorable comment
upon the quickness with which tho trial pro-
ceeded. 1t was all over in eight hours, and Car
bone was led from the court room wildly pro-
testing his innocence. He was sentenced to die
in the electric chair at Sing Sing In the second
week in February. There was one flaw, how
ever, in the court proceedings. The convicted
man was innocent of the murder. This fact
was settled by the receipt Of the following tele-
gram yesterday from Detective Sergeant Petro-
sino, the Italian expert Of Police Headquarters:
IN 8 A. N.
Capt. Mcciuskv, CHIEF Of Detectives:
Ailesandro Ciaromello arrested. Got full confess
sion. Have the knife with which he killed Nattali
Brogno. Coming on to-day. PErnosiSo.
Instead of going to the electric chair. the con-
demncd man will go to the witness chair and
appear against tho sclf-confesscd murderer.
The complete story Of the murder Of Natalie
Brogno with what went before Is as luminously
illustrative Of the murderous instinct Of revenge
which is in tho very blood Of the low.class Ital-
ians as the conviction of Angelo Carbone Is IL
Illustrative Of the liability to fatal error on the
part of tho jury in such cases. On the face Of
it the case seemed simple. Three policemen
saw, on the evening Of Sept. IL, 1897, an Italian
running through Leonard street pursued by
another Italian. At the corner Of Centre street
the fugitive fell. Instantly the pursuer was
upon him, kicking and striking at the PROSTATE
form with devilish fury until the police dragged
him of. The man on the ground was dying.
| He retained consciousness long enough to tell
his own name, Natalie Brogno, and to gasp out
when asked who his assailant was, angelo
Carbone." In less than half an hour he was
dead of q stab wound which had transfixed the
liver. There was another wound In his wrist
from which blood had flowed freely. Near
where he fell lay a penknife, one blade of which
was open. The prisoner did not deny the owner
ship of the knife and admitted that he was An
| cello Carbone, but positively affirmed that he
had not killed Brogno. To the police, however,
the case against him seemed clear.
Late that night there came to the police sta
ton q 12.year-old boy, Joseph Carbone, who
said that he had been in Leonard street at tho
time of the tragedy and had seen Brogno
stabbed. The wound In the tomac was in
ficted, he declared, not by Angelo Carbone, but
by Alexandra Ciaramello, who had jumped out
from the shadow of doorway as Brogno
passed and stabbed him. He could take them
| where they could find Ciaramello, the boy
added. But the police laughed at him. They
had a good enough case against their pris-
oner not to bother with any other suspect. Be-
sides, the boy admitted that he was a nephew
of the prisoner. They told him to get out Of
the place and not 10 come back. Young Car
bone WAS not called as O witness before the Cor
oner's jury, but another witness for the pris.
oner, and an unexpected one. turned mp in the
person of Coroner's Physician Schultz. who
swore positively that the wound in the abdo-
men could not have been inflicted with the pen.
knife found upon the scene of the crime. The
blade that made that cash, he said, was at
least seven inches long. Nevertheless, the jury
declared against the prisoner, and he was tried
before Justice Smyth on Dec. ID.
Ambrose H.. Purdy, who had been assigned
to defend Carbone. put Joseph Carbono upon
the stand. and the boy told his story of having
mony showing that there was motive on Clara
mello's part for killing Brogno. that Ciaramello
hs. exhibited 16ain5,i;tnSd q 2 k EiIfiDg with Rro which aI he d tSaf ED
had boosted in Philadelphia whittier he fed
after the murder, that he had wTeaked ven
| geance on Brogno, was not admitted by Justice
been produced in court IL the defence wished to
saaGGs t tSe pr isSn,mGnfS eroe aoS i beStins Of the iS,
| dying man told heavily against Carbone, and
general run Of Italians, who are phIegmatic
under conviction, Carbone Jumped to his feet
cence OF the crime. His lawyer, who had taken
various exceptions, gave notice that he would
Meantime he had worked out the entire plot
of jealousy, strife, tempted murder, and ven
geance by murder on the would-b be murderer.
and confession of Ciarameiio. This is the story
told by Mr.. Purdy's, witnesses. not as It came
It dates back to last July, when Brogno, the
dead man, and Ciaramello, the murderer. were
short distance outside Of Jersey City. Clara
mello, who is q middlc-aged man, has a wife
much younger than himself, and he became m zeal:
Brogno knocked off work early. went home, and
got on his best clothes and took
met them at the door Of his house; There was
a quarrel, in which the woman.took the part Of
her lover against her husband, who finally left
'n III fG yon want s%nttrssii him you can keep him"
ciaramolle awaiting him. The two men
fought. Brogno. who was, much, the younger
snd HHFS p SnS Tss f Ssas t aSa hu MSsn the into 1 IL,
Don't leave him there. He might .bo dead
nj tx him. said Brogno, and putting the
inanimate figure upon his shoulder he went
That night q Waterman on the railroad found
a senseless man lying across IA track on which a
gested that he, had been placed there ina way
to insure death; The , man ih was It taken ken tbooIa hos.
P Ei5iy' k Thssi a. an Sf 5ea aGsnd ma 4 month as hf later sef So left fsft
the hospital and went to New York; Brogno.
meantime, had come TO this city. That ID why
the hospital patient came. He was Ciaramello.
First he went to the Archipolis Hotel on James
street. but the wary proprietor, arguing from
prove a troublesome customer; refused him iodg;
Ing. He found 1t at another place, however, and
find ,Brogno. Several nights later he met his
maltreated him. and, showing her q big knife,
said:
~ have sharPsned this on both edges for
"6f course" said Mary Pucei. to whom that
Her testimony on this point was not ad.
mittod in court, Mother was that Of Archi.
condemned man, enters into the case. He Is a
cousin Of Ciaramello. and also Of Mary pucci,
This made him angry. On the evening OF Sept.
IL he met Brogno on Baxter street, near Leon
ard.
."whet did you mean by beating my cousin
Alexander he demanded.
"In beat you. too" said Brogno, and knocked
him down.
Carbone jumped up. only to be knocked down