Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-28
Dominica AlbaneSe Must Answer
For Cutting Pretty
Young Woman.
ROSA PAUL TELLS HER STORY
Aged Mother Grasps Maynard Child
In Her Arms az she Goes
To ReformatOry.

without Offering any defense other
than the suggested iuuendo of past re-
latons and a possible motive OF self
defense through fear of former threats
all brought out in the cross-oxamlna-
ton OF the states Witnesses. Dominica
Albanese. an olivo-skinncd Italian. had
his preliminary hearing yesterday
before Judge Bowman on the charge of
having assaulted Rosa Paul with
deadly weapon on the day Of July 81.
and was bound over 20 the district
court
Although caught within the minute
that he ran from the girls room at no
pa. west Third South. after DE had
slashed her seven times with 70 razor.
Alhanese pleaded not guilty when ar
raisned. and this morning sat listening
almost emcuonlcss 10 the recital Of tho
details of his attack as told by wit
ncsses. His feelings wore betrayed only
iu the Occasional lighting up OF the
eyes with the CLEAN of the hot p7ssin1
IF The Latin blood and the Irresistible
FASCINATION of the livid scars lcft on
mo forehead and cheek of the victim
Of hts fiery jealous hate.
The PRINCIPAL witness ian tho hearing
was Rosa Paul, "a ComeN maiden of the
Neapoltan type. and who bccaue. off
her experience with Albanesc and ths
iact that she is not yet NJ yoars of
age Us now a ward Of the state indus
trial school M Ogden. Dressed spright-
lE M pink. Vivacious and with con-
tinual smile that at times broke out
INTO laugh while under direct exam
nation, and lost itself ion almost suIl<v
refusal when undcr Cross-examination.
an AN attempt was made to probe into her
lie with A!hunesc, the situation of the
girl today was bon marked contrast Co
thot OF the doy when she was brought
INTO the emergency hospital the blood
streaming from the gaping wounds in,
hicted by Albanese.
TELLS HER STORY.
Her story was that about noon Of
July 81 Alliances had come To her room.
and when she opened the door in re-
Spouse 20 his knock he had drawn a
razor and began slashne her the first
wound being inflicted on the left check.
and the others on the forehead. arm.
back and fingers. She averred that no
words had been spoken. and that there
had been no pOvocation for the at
tack. Under the cross examination
there was revealed through the at
tempted questions and others which she
hesitated to answer the story Of the
passionate Jealousy Of the Italian She
said her home had been in St PAU.
where she FIRST met Albanese. and that
from there they had come to Denver
and other points in Colorado before she
arrived in salt Lake just previous t.
the attack by Albauese
Mrs. Fannie Ferguson. landladv NJ
the roOminghOuse Ia which the assault
occurred and Mrs RhoGa Dudson. a
housemaid, testified TO having been at
tracted to the room by the screams Of
the girl and of having seen Albanese
run from the room stll welding the
razor while the girl stood IN The room
horribly gashed from the wounds.
Deputy Sheriff John :. Corlcss testi-
fed 10 having caught Alhancse Just
after he emerged from the roomiug-
house. and that the defendant had stiu
in his possession the blood stained
razor and revolver
HAD NO TESTIMONY.
When the state rested its case the
counsel for the defendant announced
that he had no testimony 10 offer and
the court bound the defendant over
TO the district court.
pathetic feature Of the hearing oc-
CURED Immediately following the de-
cision when the aged mother of the
unfortunate girl came forward from
the spectators bench and clasped her
daughter in the kissing embrace. The
mother. her face furrowcd and marked
with the lines of sorrow and grief, arr
rived in salt Lake a short time ago
from tho east when she had learned of
Tho girls predlcamcnt After q BRIEF
meeting in the courtroom tho mother
had 10 again give mp her daughter aud
watch her led away by deputy sheriff
10 be returned 90 the state industrial
school this afternoon