The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-24
The cassie Chadwick OF Little Italy
Is Found Guilty Of Cutting
Another Ones
Thoat.
SMILES ON THE WAY
Gave Badgers Feet and Dried Hawks
Claws to Her Patrons to
Ward Off
Death.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 23.-When
Mrs. Angelina Garramone, 'The Cas-
sic Chadwick Of Little Italy" was TAX
en- to the prison at Canon City tonight,
following her conviction Of the charge
Of numbering Mrs. Mary Laguardia,
her godmother, the career OF one of
the cleverest women in the history of
Colorado was brought to an end.
Despite the fact that the jury reach
ed verdict on its second ballot and
fixed her punishment az life imprison-
ment. the Italian woman has not
abandoned. hope. Her wonderful smile
was clearly in evidence as she board
ed the train for the prison, and she
told the reporters: well. you can
tell them this one thing: My con-
science is clear and that much will
keep me from being unhappy. / know
7 didn't kill Mrs Lagaurdia, no matter
what the Jury thought. My attorney
has asked for new trial and maybe
will have better luck next time.
Maybe Mrs. Laguardia will hear of
my troubles by this time, and come
and save me. know she is alive and
will come to me, no matter if some
said they saw me murder her.
When Mrs. Concetta Forgione and
daughter Stella told the police last
August that they saw Mrs Garramone
I.sarisy Mrs. Iaguardia IN a ravine
near Golden one year before. they
started police investigation Of half a
dozen mysterious disappearance from
the Denver italian quarter within the
past two years Some of these mys-
teries have never been solved and the
police are confident that gang OF
blackhanders, in which Mrs. Gar.
ramone was prominent had something
to do with them.
The most notable of these disap-
pearances was that of Mrs. Dorinto
Cellanti who was found murdered in
Adams county in November, 1910
Her throat was cut and she disappear
ed at a time when it was reported
that she threatened to tell the police
some OF the facts about the stabbing
of Gracinto Derioce which occurred
at christening at Mrs. Garramone's s
home.
Another notable disappearance from
the local italian quarter was that Of a
woman known as "Old Mary which
has never been satisfactorily explain
ed 1t was said at the time she had
given some money to other Italians
to invest for her
For many years Mrs. Garramone
dominated the Italian quarter. She
posed as clairvcvant and supersti
tious Italians credited her with pre-
ternatural power, She also conducted
sort OF investment agency and the
local police say she showed wonderful
shrewdness In handling the funds oi
italians and In inducing them to place
their money in her hands.
She played on the credulity of these
persons by giving them charms Of al
kinds when they consulted her.
Two witnesses in her trial OF
charge Of numbering Mrs. Laguardis
testified that she gave them a badgers
foot and dried hawks claw to ware
off death. The same witnesses, Mrs
Concetta Forgione and her daughter
Stella. testified that the same day she
4 gave them these charms, they saw hel
hold Mrs. Laguardia's head by grasp
ing her hair and cut her throat twice
For years Mrs. Garramone was {
regular defendant in police court
Italians accusing her of various
crimes. She always escaped on some
technicality, however, anti' severa
months ago, when she was convictee
OF forgery and sentenced to three
years in states prison. Che is sill
serving this term.