The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-23
The Jury Finds Mrs. GarramOne
Guilty of Murder.
Penalty of Life Imprisonment
Is Recommended.
MANY AFRAID OF HER
Story Of Crime Told Only After
She Was in Prison.
Was Known as the Cassie Chad
wick of Little Italy.

Golden, Colo. Dec. 23.-Guilty OF
murder in the first degree with rec
onmendation Of life imprisonment
was the verdict returned today by the
Jury il. the case of Mrs. Angelina Car
ramone. charged with killing Mrs
Maria La Guardia. August 20, 1910.
Golden, Colo. Dec. 23.-When the jury
in the case of Mrs. Angelina Cara
none charged with having murdered
Mrs. Maria Laguardia on August 20,
1910 retired to deliberate last night, it
was generally believed there was no
hope for a verdict being reached be
fore morning. One and one-half hours
later. report issued from the jury room
that there was no hope on the part Of
the jury of reaching a verdict, and the
Jury was taken to a hotel, where it re-
tired for the night.
Throughout the night Mrs Cara
none in her cell in the county jail in
Denver took her situation as calmly
as had been her manner throughout
the trial Only once since her trial be-
gan had Mrs Garramone shown mark
ed signs of losing her cOmposure.
Mrs Garramone has long been known
as the Cassie Chadwick of Little TIA
"" because of many financial deals
of which she was a principal promoter.
and into which. it is said. she induced
the people of her native country here
to become financially interested with
the result as was claimed, no returns
SSn their money were ever seen by the
INVESTORS. It was claimed that a su-
pssrstititous fear of the woman had
men of the Italian district here from
resorting to the courts for the recov-
cry of money they claimed to have
trusted to Mrs. Garramone-
Fear Kept Them Silent.
Tt was said it was this same fear,
inspired by the belief that the woman
was a necromancer, thai kept the two
FOrgione women. who claimed to have
witnessed the murder of Mrs Laguar-
dia, from informing the police of the
murder until after the woman finally
was arrested and sent to the prison
for forgery. a charge brought against
her by an Italian who claimed to have
invested money in one of Mrs. Cara
mOne's alleged financial undertakings.
Ms CcnCetta FOrgione and her
daughter Stella testified to having been
eye-witnesses to the tragedy with which
Mrs Garrar1One was charged. Roth
kc1nen stated Mrs. Garramone through
ruse chat she would take Mrs. La
guardia to a mine near Golden where
her husband was employed, escorted all
three women tc lonely spot in the
and there rushed up to
Mrs. LagGardia from behind. caused her
to jerk a faScinator she wore by tell
ing the woman that a bug was crawl
ing on her Ieek and as tie fascinator
was thrown off drew a butcher knife
across her throat While this was be
ing done, the women claimed Stella
Forsione held the infart child of MIS-.
Garramone in her arms. The murder
was corlmftted. the Forgione women
claim for about $3.50 Mrs. Laguardia
carried in her dress
Fear of the GarramOne woman's
sinister occult powers caused
the Forgione women they claim not to
mention the murder to the police until
the body was discovered nearly a year
later after it had been washed up
from beneath the earth by heavy
rainfall some time after Mrs. Cara
none began serving a sentence for
forgery.