The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
TO TRY AEONAN FOR MURDER
JERSEY COI'RT TO INVESTIGATE
THE PORCH HOMICIDE.


r1orsndA nIarl6 says the Nan with whom
h ElOpeh and whom she kfterward
shot Had a Strange Iniuence over
Her-The case MAY Not Get 10 q Jury
Sons lvn1 e n. j., Oct. 2s.-Miss Flor
inda IIlario win he placed on trial in the
somerset Court here to- morrow for the
murder OF Alex Dipalo on June 4 last. Di-
palo was a hotel man and contractor of
Raritn. He vas called the king OF The
italian colony u Raritau. de was inluen'
tiol In politics ann boosted tina he had such
a political pull that I've could do anything
that he pleased in Rar,tan. He wound ur
hiA career by deserving his wife and six
children and elopin9 with Miss Hiario,
his cousin. -
dc deserted the girl after living with her
several wetks in Washington, d. G.. He
returned to his home in Raritan and was
received by his wife with open arms. he
started in to make light Of his misconduct
with Miss I%llario, but as he was credited
with b~etraying another young woman be-
fore this the community would not stand
for 1t and the prosecutor caused his arrest
on a charge Of deeertlon.
Mics nlario. after she had been deserted
by Dipalo, also returned here, bat hsr
family would not receive her. h girl
said Dipalo had exercised a strange in
ftuenoe over her and had induced her TO
take all her money from the bunk and TO
fiee with him, promising to support her
In luxury and to live with her as her hus-
band. She said Dipalo ~Landoned her
after be had got most Of her money. Di-
palo's trial was pending and Miss IlIario,
y m aaiI uaE To hP "A witness az alnSt
him.
ON SATURDAY. AFT n O June 4, Dipalo
went TO Miss ~Tllario'S boarding house IN
Mechanic street, where he found her alone.
list what led up to the murder no one but
Miss Illario knows. She says that Dlpalo
tried to make up with her, but she rected
her wrongs and r~epulsed him. She asked
him II she should kill herself and he said
vos and handed her his revolver. She
kcnt the weapon and as he was about to
leave the house by "A rear entrance she
shot at him through a screen door. He
dropued on the floor Of thai Ortlco with a
bullet In his head and died IN the Somerset
Hospital an hour later. Miss lnarlo walked
to the county court house and surrendered
herself TO the authorities. III revolver
which she handed over has been ldentIiied
as Dipalo's.
There is much speculation here as to
whether Miss lllario's case will be tried
nv a Jury. The Somerset court has several
IUEA Ill NNNANl ~ w. ANAAS~ -
by Jury. The Wood murder case IN which
George II, Wood, h was pushed on by
the Little black Man. was taken from the
Jury after the trial had proceeded for sew
eral DAYS. Wood was allowed to plead
guilty to murder is the second degree and
vas sentenced to thirty years in the State
prison. The defence was that Wood was a
degenerate and a victim Of epileptic IN
sanity. Wood has now been IN State
PRISON at hard labor for a year and 1t Is re-
ported that he has shown no further evil
fences of insanity or degeneracy.
The Rev. MIR. Watson, colored, was the
next murderer arraigned before the court.
He was accused of the deliberate murder
If James T.. { christopher, whom he tollowed
down the street and ell shed with a razor
inter a fight. A jury WAS called, but the
prisoner was allowed 10 plead guilty to
murder in the second degree and was sem
fenced to twenty years in State prison,
William Ditmar, who was arraigned last
week for the murder Of David howard,
was also sentenced to the State prison
for twenty years without trial by jury al ter
he had pleaded guilty TO murder in the
second degree. Dltndr's crime was char
acterized by the Court as deliberate and
premeditated, but the evidence bowed that
be was drunk at the time IL was committed.
On the other hand, Jacob tlomert cit,
charged with killing his brother-ln-law,
Frank d. Cramer. has been tried by two
juries who nave failed 10 agree. The Court
has recently signiiied its intention Of placing
him on trial for a third time at the De-
Oember term.