The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-06
MURDER AT M00SUP
Italians Wife Reveals Crime Committed Two Months
 Ago.
CIRCUMSTANCES UNUSUAL
Accused Man Kept Guard Over Wife, and Neither Has Left House for
 Eight Weeks.

Moosup, March 5.--The finding of the dismembered body of an Italian, now believed to be that of Dina Pietro, of Mulberry street, New York city, at the bottom of the Moosup river, near the mill dam this afternoon, uncovered as brutal a murder, as has been brought to the attention of the authorities in thi- part of the state in years. The mystery which usually attends the finding of the bodies of murdered per- sons is lacking in this instance, ex- cepting that the motive has yet 10 be determined, the authorities claiming that they have strong evidence against Salvatore Capagello, young Italian, who came here from New York some months ago. Capagello, who Is about twenty years old, is under arrest and will be given hearing tomorrow, as a result of which, 1t Is expected he will be bound over to the superior court fon trial Had it not been for the fact that Capagello refused to support his young wife. the murder might never have been solved In fact, 1t might never have been known.
 Late last night the accused Italian was arrested on the non-support charge, his wife declaring that the husband had neither worked nor con trsbuted to her support for the past two months. The wife was in terror of her husband, for she is alleged to have known about the murder. of Pie tro, and Capagello is said to have threatened her with death if she went out of his sight. The result was that up to last night neither husband nor wife had left the house for the past eight weeks. Capagello's wife manag ed to get away yesterday and urged her husbands arrest on the charge of non-support He was taken by Deputy Sheriff Bllven and locked up, and 1t was only when he was safely behind the bars that the wife dared tell the authorities that she thought her hus- band was a murderer. She told them that two months ago there came to their house fellow countryman known as Pietro and that she believ- ed that the Blank hand" had some- thing to do with his coming to them. She said that Pietro disappeared mys- teriously one night and that afterward she found a bloody hatchet and other things that convinced her that the stranger has been put out of the way by her husband. She kept these facts to herself until last night and in the meantime the body of Pietro, cut sl- most to bits was resting at the foot of the mill dam. many feet below the surface of the river.
 Taking the tip from Capageilo's wife, Deputy Sheriff Bliven, Coroner Rill and Grand Juryman Mathewson went 10 the home of the couple to-day and made a thorough search of the prenises. What they discovered under the roof convinced them that mur- .Ier had been committed and after the house and grounds had been searched tbe three men turned to the river. Hooks and dragnets were used up and down the stream until, about the mid ,ile of the afternoon, the body was fished up. Its many parts were wound around with heavy wire to keep them together. and the whole was wrapped in q woman's underskirt. and heavily ueighted with iron bars The body was taken to an undertaker's and probably will be b uriei tomorrow. There were positively no means o,