The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-08

Coroner Statement of
 Giuseffi Which Throws
 New Light on Independ-
 ence Day Murder.
 Giusefi Alleges that Fascia-
 no Shot Antonio Pizzuto
 :. After First Fight Was
 Over and that Salvatore
 Pizzuto Then Stabbed
 Brothers Slayer.
 From evidence said to have been laid before Coroner Wilson, yesterday, by State Policeman Frank virelli it will undoubtedly be necessary for Luigi Fasciano, the barber stabbed last Monday night, to answer to the charge : of murder in the first degree. From the evidence first gleaned by the po- lice it would appear that Fasciano had shot Antonio Pizzutto in self defence, The evidence secured by Officer vir- elli is said to be in the shape of a ! statement from vincenzo Giuseffi of 422 EsaST Main street, NGW 1OIh CiNy, ]. who was brought here yesterday from New York. Giuseffi is brother-in- , law of the slain man and a stepson of Fasciano who is at the hospital with five stab wounds in his body
 It was Giusef6 who was with the Pizzutto brothers and his step father at the time of the shooting. He ran i away when the fighting commenced wife and two children aboard a. troll ley car and get to the depot where they boarded a train for New York and got out of the State without being apprehended.
 Prosecuting Attorney Delaney arm ed virelli with a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of the runaway son-in-law. Cne officer made complaint to the f,-csecutor to the effect that Giuseffi had wielded billiard cue in the fight within Trfpardelli'S saloon at Columbus Place and North Washington avenue. The warrant charged him with assault with intent to kill.
 virelii found him at his bootblack stand at 18th street and Fourth ave uue, and convinced him that he had tetter return to Bridgeport without ex- the New York authorities. Guiseffl agreed to come to Bridgeport with the officer and appeared before the coro- ner. After hearing the story the cor oy1er asked the local department to place an officer at St. Vincent's hos pitai to guard Fasciano, and he allow ed Giuseffi to go after he had prom ised to appear here any time he is wanted. Giusefff decided to remain here until today in order to attend the funeral of his murdered 'brother-in-law. He spent yesterday with his sister at her home, 104 Bank street.
 In a statement to the Farmer Giu- seff tells a. story which is along the lines of the story that Officer Virelli was able to secure from him. While the story gathered by the local police 11~ <~<,s~> and puts him in the light of killing in self defence, the New York bootblack makes it appear that his step -ather was spelling for a fight with the Pig zutto brothers. The statement further corroborates the information gathered by the Farmer on the night of the shooting. There was Q feud between the Pizzuttos and Fasciano. Antonio step-daughter of Fasciano and the visit of Ciusefn and his wife to his step-father's house precipitated the row that ended in the shooting and stabbing.
 His story is: with my wife and two children I went to Bridgeport on the morning of July f. went to my mothers home, 1ss North Washington visiting in an effort to build up her health. Everyone was home when we arrived, including Luigi iFasciano. We had dinner and then my family, with
 
 trolley ride to 1O4 Bank street, where my sister and her husband, Antonio | Pizzutto, lived They were not home | and a lady in the house said they had | gone to Seaside Park We went tc | the park and met them-
 Antonio and Fasciano did not greet | each other as did the others. My sis l ter asked Antonio to shake hands and | be friends with her step-father as she | wanted them all to be friends. An tonio said he did not believe Fasciano would shake hands with him because | of some words they had before. Il asked her about the trouble, and she | said that my step-father had beaten my mother and she had fled to her (my sister'sl house where Fasciano had come with a revolver and said he l wanted his wife to return or he would | shoot everyone in the house. Antonio, she said, had told my step-father to take his wife and keep away from there. Since then they never spoke.
 After my sister had told me this story we visited an ice cream saloon near the park and then we walked to 104 Bank street We talked on the sidewalk for a. while and then my sis r ter asked me to invite my mother and step-father into the house in order that Antonio and her husband might be good friends again. I asked my step father to come up. He said that he with Antonio for four years yet. He went home with his wife.
 'sThe next day, which was Monday, I went to see my mother again and found her alone, my step-father being in his barber shop downstairs. My mother asked me to go downstairs and | ask my step-father for his consent to bring my sister and her husband to the house that afternoon. Fasciano was not very enthusiastic about the matter, but he said that if we wanted to invite them it would be all right. | I brought my sister and her husband up that afternoon. When we arrived my mother said her husband was in the saloon on the corner. Then I. my and my brother-in-law's brother, Savatola Pizzutto, whom we had met ons the way uptown, went in to the saloon My step-father was seated at a table with five or six men. He came over to the bar and had a drink with me. We had five or six rounds together.
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