New-York tribune., 1908-01-20
TELLS OF PLOT TO KILL
MYSTERIOUS Assassination IN Paterson
Cleared Up IN Confession.

pa+erson Ian 10 (Special.-Broodng over ms
confinement in the county jail on charge Oh seiiu
ING . BLACK Hand letter to a local Women' fanN
hmazzono to-day confessed to being implicated In
Rlack Hand plot to assassinate ROBERT Cof'ese, I"
;,,.,,.o ~ tho neace who killed in his ONCE
hv the expIosion of an Internal machine sent 10
him by express from Newark last FEBRUARY. nc
also declared that the same gang had siiiaf
machine ready for John Bmson' cnieI OF p'i'oe,
but through fear the gang abandoned the piot' anu
tbe bomb vas thrown over the faSSdic L dils'
Tb. loader Amazzono said, according to the
no,;c. WAS Pasouale Garofolo, known TO the police
and the government detectives as couhtelLei'et-
GarofoIo was arrested by Captain Taylor ana 10
held on the technical charge OF dlsorderly cohouct
Josenb Mustol who convicted last week or the
,,u,a 81 Michael Monachino on Garrett Mountain
last June and Monachino himself, VINO II Is
thought was slain because he 1t was reared "ouio
expose the n1urderers of Cortese, were also men
toned as being in the plot
Amazzono made his statement to Recorder Car
roll at the county Jail in the presence of SherlH
Van Mort Captain Taylor and Policeman Civlno
ubo acted as interpreter. Captain Taylor later ar
rested Joseph Rebufo. barber who. Amazzoho
declared was delegated by Garofoo TO take 10
Newark the Internal machine that was shipped 10
C,ortese Mario Bragga, twenty-three years oIu
and Pasquale Giavigratto were also arrested De-
csuse II Is believed they will make important VIII
nesses They partly corroborate the story told oy
Amazzono.
An,azzono said he considered nemoer Oh
the gang but he took part in their operations
He believes that he, as "eH as Niohachiio ~
marked for death
The Internal machine was described as box
stuffed with tissue paper and containing fuse.
which was attached to a charge of dynamite, ana
also to a strap wrapped around the box "heh
the strap was loosened the machine exploded
Anazzono said that Garofolo had on one occasion
told him that he and Mustol knew of a man IN
Chicago who threatened TO "squeaL ana ne was
killed by 1.-The gang in a cellar ana ourieo 1ei''
Amazzono denied that he was the man VINO sem
the Black Hand letter to the local woman ii'
said he was asked by woman named Mary Marks
whose home is in Newark. to get a letter THAT
would be thrown from the window at an aooieS
given him. . w.. d
Anazzono was arrested by Detectives Ryan anu
sautter when he picked up the letter. The woman
r., racei1ad the BLACK Hand note had been d.
rooted bv the police throw the letter from tie
window as instructed in the Black lana nlSsi'e
demanding 500 The police are searching ioi '"o
Marks woman ,., d
Amazzono declares that he will face Muslol. ahu
,-aroto1o and that they cannot deny any or the
statements he has made. II know that l VIII pe
killed for this but might we'll tell ALL AHa%-
zono said. 49,, .<or
chief Pimson was not disturbed over the mlot-
nation of his narrow escape from death' ne re-
,,1I.a THAT no received Black Hand letter iaSI
summer directing him TO leave an envelope ool.
tanning 500 in a designated spot on MAJ n ne go
near the General Hospital The chle1 caileu ''
hut the agents of the Black Hand did not appear
The statement of Amazzono Will be suohi''eu ~
morrow to the grand jury ,.
Policemen Carroll and Fftzsimmons' OF TINS oi'',
ACCOMPANIED by Newark detectives. went 10 tso- "
go, s+ree+ that city this afternoon and ar
rested Mrs Bertha Michael. thirty-six years oiu'
sunnosed to be the Marks woman referreo 10 W
the nrisoner on a complaint made by Captas'i
John H. Taylor, of the Silk City, cnarsNns Ne,
with being dsorderly person She VIII 'e '1'0
over to the Paterson authorities.