Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-03-06
HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Young Italian al Moosup Weuld
Put Crime Of Murder on
His Wife.

before Judge Danielson here to-day,
Salvatore Capagello, the 20 years old
Italian who is accused of numbering
Dina Pietro and throwing the dis
membered body into the Moosup river
toward the latter part of December
last, was bound over to the next term
of the superior court without bail.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty and
was taken to the county Jail In
Brooklyn this afternoon. Capagello's
wife, whose story was the, means of
causing the arrest of the alleged muir
derer, is under the eye of the au-
thorities, and it was intimated to-
day that she might be taken into Gus
tody In the near future.
1t developed to-day that the black
hand theory that Pietro had been
sent here from New York to be put
out of the way by Capagello, was
not substantiated by the evidence as
brought out at the inquest conducted
by Coroner Hill before the court hear
ing and also at the session of the
court. The coroner's finding was to
the effect that Pietro met death by
blows on the head with an axe in the
hands of Capagello and that the muir
der was committed on December 21.
Several witnesses We're examined at
the inquest, among them being the
wife of the supposed murderer, the
father Of the woman and one or two
friends of the prisonerk Mrs Capag-
clio told her story much the same as
she told ii to the authorities the day
before.
At the court hearing the prisoner
in his own behalf declared that he did
not murder Pietro, but that he and
his wife discovered the dead body on
the floor Of his room sometime late
in the night of December 81. He
intimated that his wife might have
known something about how the man
met his death, but the authorities
take no stock whatever in his at
tempt to throw the blame on someone
else Capagello said that his Wife
helped him cut up the body of the
victim and that she also helped him
throw it down into the cellar, where
il remained several days before II
was finally disposed of in the Moosup
river. The prisoner said that his
wife cut the legs from the body and
then sewed them in one of her ski is,
after they were wound with wire. The
portions of the body were found Just
as described by the prisoner and Mrs
capagello is being watched.
Patsey Gallo, the father of the
prisoners wife, said at the court
hearing that he thought his son-in-
law crazy and told of many peculiar
actions which he had observed in
Capagello during the past two
months. The testimony of the wife
that she nor her husband had been
away from their home for several
weeks was denied by Gallo, who said
that frequently either the wife or her
husband had been to Jewett City or
other places nearby. Gallo who be-
longs to the Methodist church, said
that Capagello and he and also his
wife, had differences regarding reli-
gion, but just what connection this
had with the murder no one could
see.
Pietro it is believed came to
Moosup on visit to Capagello and
that possibly during iit of jealousy.
the latter killed his friend. Letters
and kilograms received by the Capa-
gellos point to an explosion of the
black hand end of the affair as the
authorities now fully believe that the
visit of the New Yorker was one
among friends. The authorities here
place some credence also in the rob
berry motive. their opinion being that
possibly Capagello thought Pietro had
money and that il would be safe to
murder him. rob him and then dis
pose of the body.
II is thought strange that II Mrs
Capagello had no hand in the mur-
der that she did not tell Of II before.
She claims to have been afraid that
her husband would kill her and for
that reason she did not dare mention
1t. She also said that she did not
have the chance as her husband
would not let her get out of his sight
but to-day IL was learned that the
two had been apart many times since
the murder was committed.