Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-30
PRISON FOR LIFE
Sanzivaro Plead Guilty to Mur-
 der in Second Degree
HIS COUNSEL ADVISED HIM TO

The Prisoner Pleading Guilty Gut
 Short What Promised to Be a sensa-
 tional Trial Story of the Crime
 Which Was. Committed on Sunday
 Evening in March.
 The trial of Vincenzo Sanzivaro for the murder in the first degree of his friend and countryman, Antonio Cimi- nera, did not materialize to-day in the superior court. A jury panel of twenty three was summoned and so far as the state was concerned everything was ready to proceed with the trial. It was rumored before court opened that the accused would plead guilty to man slaughter. This turned out to be fact, but Assistant States Attorney Kellogg would not accept this plea and insisted OH a trial. Therefore, accus- ed's counsel, Bauby, Lynch and O'Neill advised him then to plead guilty to murder in the second degree and he consented to this after great deal of pressure.
 Court opened at Il o'clock and after the jury was called Sanzivaro was put to plea and he pleaded as advised, guilty to murder in the second degree. There was but one sentence for this crime, and he was sentenced to that, imprisonment for life.
 This is the first time in this town that such sentence was imposed and general opinion has 1t that Sanzivaro saved his neck by accepting 1t.
 On the evening of Sunday, March 8 last, in house on Jackson street, Ciminera, the man who was killed, and. a number of other Italians were passing the time playing cards. There was a dispute and immediately there was trouble. Every player left his seat and the greatest uproar followed. It is said there were blows and that Cilninera struck sanzivora's brother. At all events a brother of the accused, the one in question, tumbied out of the room onto landing and shouted and the accused happening to be passing underneath at the time, heard. the cry and seeing his brother, presumed he was in danger and without inquiring into the cause of the uproar upstairs, or to what extent his brother needed assistance, or if he needed any, Sanzi- varO plucked five chambered revolver from his hip pocket and fired. The bullet struck Giminera in the left side of the chest between the first and sec and rib, severing some pulmonary ar teries and veins and in a few seconds he was dead.
 After firing. the shot Sanzivaro fled. A crowd was at his heels and kept him in view until his arrest. He fed up Bank street to Canal. across South MTf& Near Moriarty's moraue he saw a crowd ana ag if Following out the old saying that q murderer IS always at- tracted to his victim, SanzivArO crush ed bis way into the crowd standing around the undertaker,s rooms and gazed few moments at the face of. the man he had killed, whose body had meanwhile been conveyed thither By this time the town was alarmed by the news of the murder and some one in the crowd thought Sanzivaro's ac- tions were strange, if not suspicious. This man whispered to his neighbor, and soon every eye was centered on the agitated features Of the murderer. He hastily left the place when he found he was the object of so much attraction and the crowd followed him NuGn AG EdU LhS CIOWu Fdu dLtSE Aiul and all doubts as to who he was were therebT removed. He was pursued and captured in Pinney's livery stable on ScoyilI street and next morning his revolver, with one shell discharged was found in Constable Carmody's wagon, which was in the livery yard, and In which it landed when he threw 1t away.
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