The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-06
Husband of Defendant, Missing
Several Weeks, Not Yet
Found.
ADMITS THAT SHE Is
GUILTY OF Staying
Declares Victim Wanted Her TO
EI0pe and She Shot in
Self-defense.

For the first time in thirty years. ac-
cording TO the records of the Court
House. a woman. Mrs. Josephine
Amore. was placed on trial on a charge
Of murder To-Day in the Court of oyer
and Terminer. Judge Ten Eyck presid-
ing, with a special panel of jurors in
the box
1t was Mrs George Meierhoffer who
was tried for murder as far back as
1879 the first and only woman executed.
for murder in this county. She and
Frank Lammens were accused of kill
ing her husband in West Orange. Both
were convicted and hanged
Mrs Anore is the comely wife of
rich carmine Amore. and is accused
of having shot to death Michael Mar
tella on the evening of August 5, 1908,
because he wanted her to eIops with
Linn.
The police first arrested the husband,
who was in the grocery business in
Drift street, and charged him with the
murder, but Mrs. Ainore surrendered
herself and declared that she was ting
responsible party Since then Carnine
has disappeared from his home. Ia
Drift street, and has not been located
since. although lie has been under
heavy hail and his bondsn4en are mucn
interested in his whereabouts
Husband Missing.
The last heard of him was when ne
called On his wife's brother. Domenick
Valentino. head of the Letter Carriers
Association. and talked with him aboat
the trial
AT the same time the State does not
care particularly whether he turns up.
as. under the law. The evidence of
husband against a wife and vice versa.
does not hold
Former Judge Thomas s Henry
whose illness caused the postronement
of the trial several times. appeared to-
day as senior counsel fer the defense
having completely recovered, and had
Joseph S. Murphy with him to help de-
fend the woman, who vas in charge OF
Constable George ciorilam. She looked
at the jurors, as they were called 10
their seats, with much interest.
Getting the Jury.
one Of Mr. Henrys stock questions
in examining the jurors as to their
qualifications was whether they had
any prejudice against Italians. and the
greater number Of them ansB cred in
the negative.
After Mr.. Henry fasde q formal nae
ticr, to quash the Indictment on the
greund that it did not set forth the
charge against her Specifically, and
this motion had been denied. the draw
ing Of the jurors began Prosecutor
Wilbur a. Mott objeeting to some Of
them on various grounds, and Mr..
Henry on others.
Francis ihearney, a blacksmith. OF
Millburn, was selected as foreman, and
after the weedhg-out process. which
took all the morning had been conf
pleted, his colleagues in the box were:
Charles B. Matthews, Joseph Tyreli.
Bernard Conlon. John T Riley James
It, Brennan, Abraham Stryker. sr..
Daniel Mahoney. William r. Soaring
John F. Tengrove. Bartholomew ]
Freeman and Michael \. DOYLE
Mott'S plea.
Mr. Mott. in addressing The iury.
asked for conviction Of the woman
for murder OF the first degree. saving
that it was a deliberate Staying of the
victim Then he called upon Surveyor
Edward G Kempf. vino described the
premises, and DR.. Daniel Elliott. county
physician. who described the bullet
wound.
Dressed in deep mourning, Mrs Rosie
Martelli the widow of the murdered
man, was then called and told about
shot she heard on the night Of the
murder