New-York tribune., 1911-09-01
LANDS IN CELL At LAST
Italian Accused of Murder Is
Brought from st. Louis.
ALIBI OF FRIENDS FAILS
Scaglia Must Stand Trial on
Charge of Blowing Off the
Head of His Enemy.

Pellegrino Scaglla the man accused OF
the murder Of Bartholdi Cardanali. July
so. is I'm New York. but Detectives Cavone
and Michelli, who went to st. Louis
for him. had hard time getting him
away. They arrived last night with their
prisoner and a tale of troubles with the
st. Louis police.
Scaglia who has made his home in st.
Louis for a long time has had a violent
career. Last March. the police say. he was
waylaid in that city on 'Dago Hill'' and
stabbed almost to death He came out OF
the hospital with forty-three scars: one
on his cheek This mark helped the de-
tectives TO land him in St Louis, August 4,
as he stepped off train from New York.
Scaglia Immediately applied for writ OF
habeas corpus. alleging that he was being
detained Illegally. II was denied. A second
writ was procured and twenty witnesses
testified to an ahbi. The writ was also
dismissed. Governor Hadley signed extra
dition papers, and Cavone sneaked his man
out of the back door at Police Headquarters
In st. Louis. He left Michelli and taking
SCagla in a taxicab to the Missouri line
boarded a trolley car and went to Granite
City, H.. where he telegraphed Michelll
TO Join him.
On the way. he says, he was followed by
Italian friends OF Scaglia who sought to
serve him with more papers. but he eluded
them Cavone has had troubles like this
before Once he spent nine months In
Buenos Ayres, fighting the laws delays and
trying to bring a man to New York.
Vincenzo Cardanali, brother Of the MUIR
dered man, Identified Scaglia in St Louis,
and again last night at Police Headquar-
ters. The murder Of Bartholdi Cardanali
was the third in his family in late years,
and the police have n theory that 1t grows
out of feud that existed when the Scaglas
and the CARDINALS lived in the same
SiciIan province years ago. The police
connect Polegrino Scaglia with two of the
recent murders.
Bar:hold Cardanali was a barber, and
mad come from his work to his home at
No. 34i East 21st street on the evening
of July so and was sitting in the doorway
while his wife was taking off his shoes.
His head was almost blown off with a
double barrelled shotgun.
Detectives found two shotguns in a fiat
across the street Sandwiches. cigarette
butts. beer bottles and banana peels indi-
Gated that the murderers had camped there
awaiting an opportune moment TO kill
Cardanali Scagla was identified as one
Of two men who had rented the apartment
n couple Of days before. and Vincenzo Car
danali confirmed this by saying he had
seen the man in the neighborhood
Two years ago Giovanni Cardana. n
uncle Of Bartholdi, was killed while sitting
at the window Of his home at No. 2S Gold
street. Brooklyn. A shotgun was found
in an empty room across the street.
Giuseppe. Bartholdi's brother. was found
dead in Cofey Park. Brooklyn. in March.
1908 There were three bullet holes and a
stab wound in his back Witnesses said
that Sea eia had been with him the night
before Detectives went TO Giovanni
Cardanall to ask him 10 help find Scaglia.
II was just about year after that he him.
self was killed