Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-10
C|DDEO HANGS
FOR HIS CRIME
Man Arrested in Salt Lake Pays
The Penalty in Can
ada Today.
JUSTICE BROOKS NO DELAY
dominion Police Doggcd HIS foo'-
steps Until Arrest Was Mauc !"
This City In January.

EarIy this morning Francesca Cldoeo'
alias Frank Bosso, alias Fam hia''co
was hanged by the authorlties Oh the
1sritisr Columbia village of Niagara
for the murder Of Louise KING dosn-
ter of a boarding housekeeper at M
agara, on Nov. 49, 1900
C,iddeo was captured in Salt Lake
CITY on the goth day of January of the
present year by two officials of the
canadian department of police, ana
after being held in the county jail
pendins the arrival of the mother or
l1bo murdered girl, was positively iden
,ified by the woman and it was not long
afterward until extradition papers had
been issued and Ciddeo was on his way
back to the village where he had
wrought such havoc more than year
before.
Ciddeo was charged with blowing up
the boarding house and saloon conduct
ed by John King, with dynamite, and
in the explosions following Louise
King, a daughter of the boarding
house keeper was struck by falling
beams and pinned to the ground, where
one of half a dozen Italian laborers
boarding at the King house. on the
date named. Nov. IS. 1906, Ciddeo. with
his associates, began to load up on
wnisky and they soon became bolster
ous and abusive. Ciddeo's room was
situated just above the bar room in
the hotel. He rushed up to his room
and secured a rife, which he began
swinging about his head, In one of
80 gM ha 10
but the flames We're extinguished.
The band of bowling drunkards were
ordered from the house by Landlord
King. The house was locked up with
the execution of the door leading up
stairs to the bedrooms. The warning
given the Italians by King enraged
them beyond measure, and the dis
tarbance about the place became gem
eral.
ALARM OF FIRE.
At 9:45 in the evening Louise King
was seen rushing from the house cry
ing fire; she said she saw flames IN
Ciddeo's room through the chinks in
the rough logs. but before she could
escape two fearful explosions took place
and the unfortunate girl was hemmed
in by fire and pinned to the earth
by heavy logs. Explosions followed in
quick succession, and were caused by
dynamite I'm the possession OF Ciddeo.
which he set fire to out of motives OF
Jealousy, as afterward confessed by
MN. The mother had narrow escape
from being caught in the wreck, out
escaped with few bruises
IL Is said that Ciddeo was infatua ted
with the girl Louise, and that she re-
pulsed his advances, and that in re-
Nenge for her actions he took this meth
Cd, while crazed by drink to crafty
ha oil,
lily.
WAS CRAZY DRUNK.
In extenuation of the crime. Ciddeo
urged that he vas crazy drunk at tho
time, and did not know what he was
DONG On that ground Ciddeo applied
TO the Dominion government for a par
don. But as Justice is usually swift
ana urfalterlns in the domains of
Britain, and not usually swerved by
motives OF sentiment, no leniency was
extended to the condemned murderer.
and Francesca Ciddeo has paid the pen
atty of this wild orgie by hanging by
the neck until he is dead.
CAPTURED IN SALT LAKE.
The story of Ciddeo's capture reads
like one of the masterpieces of Sherlock
Holmes. After the blowing UP of the
hotel Ciddeo escaped I'm the darkness
Nalli was captured and placed in Jail.
An officer of the Canadian police was
put on his trail, and he followed cid
dec unrelentingly for more than a
year before effecting his capture. The
officer, William John Dewitt, chief con-
stable fthe provincial police of Brit
Columbia, and he finally located cid
dco In Salt Lake, where he was work
ing for the Oregon Short Line Railroad
company as section hand. Ciddeo
1lrst made his way.to oroville. just over
the American line, secreted under Il load
of hay, and he wa traced successfully
to Wenatchce, ,Ghington Portland,
Spokane, and thence to Colorado.
Thither the officers trailed him and
whom 1t was found that he had gone
to Salt Lake aud by little strategy
the officer. assisted by the sheriff and
chief of police, located him here and
placed him under arrest. Ciddeo ac-
knowledged to officer Davitt that he
was the man who fired the charges of
dynamite In the King hotel, which re-
suited In the death OF Louise King. and
hnally in the eXpla tion of the crime by
the yielding up today OF his own life.