The evening world., 1911-01-09
G|RL-W|FE SHR|EKS
FOR BABY At HER
TRAITOR MURDER
Seventeen Year-Old Rosa Pic
chione Hysterical in Court
as Case Is Opened.
SWEETHEART A WITNESS
Husband Shot With Revolver
of Alleged Supplanter, Claim
of Prosecution.
SWEETHEART A N

When Rosa P%icchione. a frail. tiny
woman, almost ~childike. was brought
into the Supreme Court at white Plains
to-day TO be tried for the murder OF her
husband h became 80 hysterical In
her cries for her baby that Justice
Tompkins directed that she be taken
Into the clerks office and that the child
be brought to her. h had not seen
the baby during the three months
which she has spent In jail. She re-
msined in the clerks ONCE. clingIng to
her child. until her case was called.
Because Of the peculiar conditions OF
the case, It was difficult to obtain a
jury. Rosa Picchione Is seventeen years
old. delicate. dark eyed. n with an
appealing expression. Since the tragedy.
IN New Rochelle. on Oct. IL. she has
been the object OF much sympathy. Jus-
tlcs Tompkins assigned Charles II.
.Noxon to defend her.
Said Husband Killed Himself.
It Is claimed by the prosecution that
Rosa and John Cauavau. a good looking
young machinist. had teen too friendly
for several months BEFORE Oct. II, when
Piscchione found them together. There
was a quarrel and Cauavau and Rosa
fed. Assistant District-Attorne% Davis,
In charge Of the prosecution, dec.a -~d.
In opening the case. that Picchione
pleaded with his wife to return to her
HON and her baby. but that she re-
fused.
Picchione hen went TO the Police
Headquarters and made n complaint
against Cauavau. That night Rosa re-
turned to her home. After midnight
several shots were heard In their room
and the girl. In her night dress. ran
screaming to the police station. She
said her husband had killed himself. but
later changed her Story FOUR bullets
entered Picchione's body, two passing
through his heart.
The girl when taken to the Morgue
and shown that her husband could not
} have shot himself said he had tried to
kill her and she had shot him in self
defense. The pistol belonged to Caua-
a
Cauavau was Indicted for carrying a
concealed weapon and was called as q
witness.
Rosa Picchione Is the first woman In
dicted for murder In the first degree in
Westchester County.
A special panel Of talesmen was drawn,
but most OF them did not believe In cap
ital punishment and several declared
against the death penalty for women.
Most of the Jurors accepted are farmers
and small tradesmen. They are: f. ii.
Feather, Charles Burns. Thomas McGee.
r. e. Taylor. John c.. Thorp. Martin f.
Silkman, jeremiah Ackley. jeremiah
Sla wson. BeaureRard Van Cortlandt.
Harry p. Kronk. David g.. Patton and
,Ch.r,a. r Rad
800 NJ n..,.,
""s op'"."e "auie"S vi, Da'ls 'oru
OF tho Iove aHair between Rose ilcchl-
one and the handsome young machinist.
Cauavan lived across the rear yard and.
Mr.. Davis said, their attachment was
cc~prnon talk I'm IN. n~eiphborhood and
,h.t Rosa had Sr,.o,en,1uv threa,enssd
10 hu her husband. Rosa had told a
neighbor. Mrs Francis Monaco. that
some n had told her husband Of her
friendship with and said
There would be trouble in this house
Tonight"
The first witness was Mrs. Monaco,
She told how Rosa had sale she had an
. 'affinlty-John C~auavan-and hat they
met she had SHOWN MIS-
I Monaco love letters from Cauavan.
.'She took her scapular out and
showed me John Cauavan's picture in
It," said Mrs. Monaco. John Cauavan
was directed to stand. Mrs. Monaco
identiied him. The witness said she
had seet Rosa sitting on his lap and
kissing him, and that Rosa had threat
ened to kill Picchlone.
On the afternoon OF Dot. IL, Mrs.
Monaco said. when Picchione found his
Wife with Cauavan, the husband seized
her arm ana prahoisheo d hatchet'
O Cauavan pulled a gun out OF his
pocket and pointed 1t at Mr.. Picchione
and said, Hit her II you dare. IN MT
Picchione ram" said the witness
She described how Rosa had rushed
TO her door early the next morning and
aroused her her husband. crying