The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-03
SEIZE SLAYER,
KNIFE IN HAND,
BY. VICTIMS SIDE
Prisoner, Admitting Act, Claims
Self-defense in Resisting
H0Id-up.


An unidentified man, who had been
stabbed twenty times. was found today
near the Canal street bridge in Bloom
field avenue, and John Madealone, 2S
years Old, of Harrison street, Belleville,
who was bending over the PROSTATE
form with a knife in his hand was ar
rested and locked up in the Fifth Pre-
cinct police station. The. victim died
before reaching hospital.
Madealone, the police say, explained
that he had been held up by the stran-
ger, who drew something shining from
his pocket and demanded his money.
Madealone said he closed with his an
tagonist and managed to wrest the
cleaning weapon. which proved to be
a jack-knife, with long blade, from
his grasp. Fearing the man had other
arms, he used the knife in his own de-
Tense, he said, and had then awaited
the arrival of policemen.
An ambulance from the Fifth Pre-
cinct was summoned and the wounded
man started to the City Hospital. He
died, however, before reaching there
He had been stabbed six times in the
neck and once in the shoulder anc
many times about the body
Joseph Bella, who says he is rs years
old and lives at 1888 Eighth avenue, who
was found near the scene of the trag-
edy, was also arrested He refused tc
talk County Physician Mckenzie was
notified and ordered the removal of the
body of the unknown victim of Madea-
lone's knife thrusts to Mullins morgue
In Washington street. The prosecutors
Office was notified and County Detectives
DeRogatis and Godfrey We're assigned
to the case. They quickly discovered
facts which. they claim, makes Madea-
lone's story ridiculous.
Madleaene is to be arraigned tomor
row. charged with murder.
The detectives learned from Frank
Sabiano, a saloon-keeper of 1923 Eight
avenue, that three men answering ths
description of the murdered man ano
the two prisoners, and later identified
by him.. had been In his saloon las
night. After hearing his story the de
tectives took Sabiano to the morgue
There he identified the body as that o
one of the strangers who had been ii
his place. He was also taken to th
l AtiF SAitiA ITO LiOii <iiiQ pithto Ou
MedeaIone and Bella as the other tw,
men Of the. party.
Madealohes forced to amend his story
declared that he had seen his -yictin
twice before. Two years ago. he said
he met the man in saloon in Eight
| avenue, opposite Nesbit street, main
tained by a man named Spagnolla. H,
saw him again last Sunday.
Madealone and Bella came from Pa
lermo, Sicily. 1t is said the dead mar
also came from there, and the stabbing
it is believed, is the sequel to feud, OF
the result of sudden quarrel.
Patrolmen Henry Curtin and Michae
Kearney were the first officers attracted
to the scene of the. tragedy. Shortly
before midnight they heard shouts. ant
as they ran.stoward the spot saw {
man run away. Kearney seized him
The fugitive turned out to be Bella
Curtin ran on and found Madealone
standing over the unknown victim. A
the approach of the policeman Madea
lone threw away the knife, it is said
he had held in his hand.
The scene, of the stabbing as on the
boundary line between the Second ant
Fifth precincts Patrol wagons from
both precincts were summoned
Frank NJ. McDefmit today identified
Madealone as one of his clients. who
was in his office yesterday. He said
the man was plasterer, in comfort.
able circumstances, and that he was
quiet. well-behaved and had always
borne an excellent reputation.
Edward H. Schwartz, superintendent