The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-30
Sobbing Widow Points to
MustOI on Trial
for Murder.
KNEW OF CORTESE BOMB?
States Prosecution Seems to
Fit Theory That One Who
Killed MOnachino Commit Z
ted Crime Because ''Dead
Men Tell No Tales"

PATTERSON, Oct. SO--The trend of
the prosecution against Joseph Mustol,
on trial for the murder of Michael
Monachino, indicates that it is intended
to try to have Mustol found guilty be-
cause Mustol feared the slain man
would "squear' in the matter OF the in
fernal machine sent TO Justice of the
Peace Robert Cortese, of this city,
which blew Cortese to pieces when he
opened it in his Office
Mustol has been indicted for Cortese's
death, and was yesterday placed on trial
for Monachino's murder.
No reference was made yester-
day to the tragic death of Cortese, and
yet those who listened to the~ evil
dence felt that the many mys-
terious conferences which the ac-
cused man and the murdered man
had together in the latter's little barber
shop on Hamburger avenue prior to
the morning of June II last, when Mon
achino's dead body was found on the
side of the Garret Mountain, related
TO the Cortese tragedy
Detective Sergeant Charles Sautter
supplemented the evidence of Mrs.
Mary Monachino, wife of the
murdered man, which was of
! striking character. The most
sensational incident of the days doings
occurred when Prosecutor Emley called
Mrs. Monachino to the stand and after
questioning her briefly regarding her
dead husband, pointed at Mustol, and
asked:
"Do you know that man, Mrs. Mon
achinow
yes. know him. He killed my
husbandv' she exclaimed and burst into
tears, while Lawyer John M. Ward.
of counsel for the defendant, asked
that the answer be stricken out.
Detective Sautter's story of his inves-
tigation of Monachino's murder related
to what seemed little things which Pros
ecutor Emley will doubtless make much
use of before the trial ends.
Did you go to Mustol's home at 61
Market street on the afternoon of the
day that the body was found?'' asked
Prosecutor Emley.
Yes. I went there and got black
coat that Mustol had worn that morn
ing" was Sergeant Sautter's reply.
And what did you notice about the
coat?" pursued Mr.. Emley.
There were brambles and stickers
on It," answered Sautter.
why did this arouse your interest?"
Mr.. Enley continued
Because" replied Sautter, "after
had returned from the mountain, the
scene of the murder, found the same
kind of brambles and stickers on my
clothing"
isn't it true" asked Lawyer Ward
of Sergeant Sautter, when the time
came for his cross-examination, that
Chief Bimson decided to let Mustol go,
and that when he was leaving Detec-
tive Titus said, What are those spots
on your trousers?'"
"Titus was not present If / remem-
her rightly, and no such remark was.
nade,' Sautter replied.
That's a liel" shouted Mustol from
where he sat at his counsers side.
One important point was scored by
the prosecution in securing the adnlis-
sion of evidence by Mrs. Monachino
regarding statements made to her by
her husband on the night previous to
the morning he was found dead. In
opening the case Prosecutor Emley
said that the State would prove that
for about nine months Mustol and
Mor@ chino had been East friends and
that frequently, at almost all hours,
Mustol was in the habit of calling on
Monachino at his little barber shop
and holding mysterious private conver-
sations with him. 1t was regarding
the last of these that Mr.. Emley asked
Mrs. Monachino to testify.
Mrs Monachino told how MustoI went
to her husbands shop at about o'clock
the night before his murder and kept him
there in close confab for half-hour. Mrs
Monaehino said when her husband reen-
tered his shop he said TO her:
"Mustol and me, we go by the coun-
trv tomorrow Mustol. he say he know
couple of friends have farm an we go out
there an he say we have good time.
Mrs. Monachino said that she saw Mus
tol the noontime of the day her husbands
body was found. She was standing In the
yard, at the gate. when Mustol passed by
and said How do you do?' Previously
she added, he had been in the barber shop
and asked for her husband.
How did Mustol look when he passed
your" Mr.. Emley asked
''AIustol, his eyes, they get big-oh, so
big-and be turn as white as snow, was
the woman's ungrammatlcal attempt
toward graphic description.
The testimony of Mrs Monachino re-
garding Mustol's frequent and mysterious
visits to her husbands home was corro-
borated BY Charles zafarana, barber
who told how, on nearly every occasion,
Mustol's appearance was the harbinger OF
= strange private talk between the two
men. Monachino, he said, would order
his wife out of the kitchen and close the
doors leading from it to the bedroom and
the barber shop. When Mustol and Mon
achino conversed before others only gem
eral topics, he asserted, were discussed.
Justice Bergen in adiourning court said:
If see tomorrow that there is likeli-
hood that the trial will not be finished by
at thfs time each day, the case viii be
continued until o'clock each evening.
The trial NAV be concluded fhis week.