The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-22


| 1t would seem from the examination
| which took place in the Second Criminal
| Court this morning that more brutal
murder has never been committed in New
| Jersey Giacoma sat in the dock alone
| with his head bandaged, while the Court
| disposed of several other cases of more
| or less Importance.
| He was somewhat shabbily dressed,
| though his pocketbook in the hands OF the
| police contained a wad of bills, which
| helped to carry out his statement that he
promised the woman he so brutally mur-
| dered to take good care of her If she
would do as he told her. His face is bru-
/ tai in appearance. 1t was unshayed. His
| black moustache looked as if the bits of
every hair had been bitten off. He lis
| tened to the testimony of the various wit
nesses against him with no outward man
| Hesitation of concern. When asked If he
| wished to make any statement, he quick
| ly responded
"Surew
| He talks broken English. He was
warned that he need not NAVE any state
ment that would incrfminate himself. But
| he insisted on talking, and demanded that
| the entire story should be told, and ges-
| ticulated in manner that showed he Is a
| natural born actor He seemed to glory
| in his deed. He confessed everything and
said he was willing to die for it, and the
sooner it was the better it would suit
| him.
The ghastly knife, with its blood stained
blade, almost foot long, ground to sharp
edges with rasp and equipped with a
4 fad n Nv
| ing made himself. 1t lay on the judges
desk, but in full view of the murderer.
Off to the side lay the woman's cloak,
and the black straw hat trimmed with
ribbons and volets. The body of the
woman he had attempted to carve with
the knife lay in Hoffman's undertaking
establishment in Jackson street, Hobo
ken.
He had. according to the testimony
given this morning by eye witnesses of
| the scene stabbed her twice in the back
and once in the breast and left 1t STICK
| ing in her left forearm. The mother OF
his wife removed the knife.
The testimony showed that the wife
| didn't even have a chance to shrek after
| the first thrust had driven the long blade
| into her breast She died few moments
later without moan.
And the man who did this corroborrated
the testimony of the witnesses that the
woman who, when asked if she would
come again and live with him, grabbed
handful of grass from the greensward
and said:-'Sooner than live with you, an
| assassin, again. will eat this!'
| few moments later the corpse of the
! woman lay on the greensward OF the hill
| side. with blood flowing from four nasty
wounds. The murderer was running
| away.
| Before being arraigned in court this
| morning Giacomo made the following
statement to Chief of Police Murphy,
after being warned that he need not say
ANYTHING to incriminate himself
my name is Morado Giacomo, am
forty years old born in Italy in 1859. I
work in Gutenberg, at the stone crusher,
1 was married by Justice Stucke, in Gut
| tenberg. February 27, 1897, and have one
child, worked until half past eleven to-
| day, changed my clothes, and took
| Fourteenth street car and came TO the
| track near the hill, and there saw the
mother of my wife. l said 1 want to see
| my child, and if she wants money l give
| it to her I saw my wife on the grass
| with another woman, I went to sit down
| and told her give her all my money l
saved and that she could live in Hoboken,
and I live in Gutenberg. She said, no;
YOU take another wife. She said. I won't
| have anything to do with you. l TOOK
my knife and cut her then. ! made the
| knife myself last week. think, don't
! know where made it.
| "(Signed,)
"MoRADO GIACOMO.
..Capt. WOHLLEBEN,
| DEFECTIVE McNALLY,
| Witnesses
His statement made to the court this
morning substantiated the statement he
made to the Chief He added that he
had offered his wife yesterday $40 or SIS
| ever. +wo weeks if she would live with
| him, sulI,4 Emitted he made the knife on
| purpose to kill her unless she consented
| to live with him. He denied, however,
| that he left his home yesterday with any
| idea of killing her.
| Frank Caprio acted as interpreter, as
sisted by an italian policeman more IA
miliar with the details of the murder
The first witness sworn was Rosa Ber-
| tano, the mother-in-law of the prisoner.
| She the ten year old daughter and Gel
| estina Novifl, young italian woman and
| a friend of the murdered woman, cor
roborated Morado's story.
1 John Spada, of No. 318 Adams street
testified, that he had heard the prisoner
boast in saloon at No. $500 Clinton street
| four months ago that he would kill his
wife if she would not life with him.
Giacoma was held for he Grand Jury
i on a charge of murder
/ The murdered woman's family is COM
posed of a respectable element. Her
father was a well known cabinet maker
and she has four almost middle aged
brothers who are carpenters and cabinet
makers.
Coroner Hoffman will empanel a jury
this afternoon to hold an inquest. County
Physician Converse viewed the remains thi!
morning and ordered the inquest. He will
perform an autopsy on the body tomor,
row at the morgue.
ARGUED, THEN STABBED.
Walsh Says He Was Cleaning Hi
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