The evening world., 1906-04-28
.STROLLO GUILTY
OF PARK MURDER
Circumstantial Evidence Fur
niShed by His Own Letters
Lead to His Conviction.
HOW HE R VICTIM.
Led Him to Lonely Thicket in Van
Cortlandt, Promising to Lead
Him to Lost Brother.
O HE LURED VICTIM.

On the strength OF evidence purely
c;rcumEtant!a1 Antonio strollo is going
10 de n the chair. L, took q jury
twenty minutes 20 find him guilty of
murder IN the first osgree before JUS
tice O'Gornan IN the Crtm:na. BrancH
OF Tho Supreme Court to-day. Sentence
Is 10 BE pronounced Monday.
Out OF this trial Assistant District
Attorney Arthur Train Is going 20 Ne
oblo to re; material for another OF bis
magazine stories on the oddities and
the human side OF the processes o: the
law. unless he IS too modest to chronicle
n very keea bit OF work O. his own.
The State started It's inquiry with little
basis h n the fact than an italian
rad been hacked to pieces In a th.cker
IN Van Cortland Park. From tina begin
strollo could fad no loophole OF escape.
Notwithstanding the fact that no. a
living person saw the killing. 1t IS the
Arst record OF tho conviction OF M
italian Tor murder on circumstanual
evidence in this county,
While St-oilo was In a gang OF la
borers a; Lamoertvllle. y. J.. last year.
he learned that one OF his fellows.
Antonio Torsielli. had savings OF 'a25
and was looking FOR a brother who had
disappeared Immediately he left New
Jersey and came 20 New York From
here ne wrote to Torsielli. telling him
that he had found the lost brother in
a construction crew in the Bronx.
on Aug. Il lie went TO Lambertsv5lle
and returned with Torsiell!. having
agreed TO pilot the un%suspecting Jersey
Italian to the place where tho brother
worked. Next, morning Torsiellrs body
was found In the park with thirty-s!x
stiletto wounds IN It.
How He Was Identified.
From an address on a pape In ono
of the dead mans pockets the police
identified him. Then they arrested
strollo. He q n fresh wound on his
hand. He could produce no one who
had seen him on the afternoon before.
Other han these apparently trfins
things there was nothing which could
be called proof against him. except
that no had left Lambsrtsy!llo with
Tors:elli.
He was sent to the House OF peten-
ton. Detecuve-sergt, Repetto. posing
a; a prisoner IN an assault case. was
aiken Their. at tho sane time. The
elective managed to win the conf
den.e OF Strollo.
Soon after Repetto left the House OF
Detention he got a letter from stroilo.
strollo wrooe to beg his new-f'tnd
friend 20 appear Mt the trial as a wit
ness and testify tnat he (Repetto) had
seen Strollo on Mott street on the
afternoon OF Aug. II and that a that
,lme Strono had a wound on his and
Caused His Downfall.
strollo's fatal facility with n pen was
hts downfall. me letter to Repetto pro-
duced in court was what really clinched
the case OF the prosecution. but q had
holm from an unexpected source. The
deferso offered n letter, too-an aaony-
nous letter, mailed In Jersey Clty-say-
ing that q man named Joe Gizzl WAS
tho murderer. Thereu7on Mr.. Train
proved by experts that strollo had writ
ten this letter, too.
And so Strollo IS 10 de n fhe chair.
olfrofgn no one saw him\ enter The
lonely park with his victim and no one
SAW hlm come forth alone after the
hatchery,