The evening world., 1911-01-10
GIRL WIFE TELLS
HOW SHE KILLED
BRUTAL HUSBAND
Fired, She Doesn't Know How
Many Bullets. Then Prayed
as She Lifted Victim.
FATE RESTS ON STORY.
Rosa Picchione May BE First
Woman Convicted of Murder
in Westchester.
FATE RESTS ON STORY.

Rosa Picchione. the child widow on
trial IN the Supreme Court in White
Plains FOR the murder of her husband
N New Rochelle. last CcIu'"Dus Day.
will know tomorrow whether she ls
TO be the first woman in Wostalestcr
County to be sent to the electric chair.
c- will Re condemned TO a prison term,
or acquitted
After her emotional recital to the jury
to-day ot the quarrel and her version
% the circumstances Of the killing she
was put to q severe questioning By As
si~;ant District-Attorney Davis, who
sue eeded IN making her conLradic;
herself several times But this was
onlS In regard to Johp Caravan. the
young machinist of whom her husband
was jealous Rosa admitted she hal
gone out wits Canavar and had carried
his picture ~ her scapullr. bu, Insisted
that there was only an ordinary friend.
ship between them.
\ door jam win a Zig black powder
marx m It's edge was eShib' ed to the
jury when the case was called This
burn, according to the prosecution, was
caused b, the girl-wtfe thrusting her pis'
toll t~aryrgi a crack In the door between
nel ben Dom and the sitting room IN
their home at No. l57 IIuguenot avenue
W-aen she shot her husband early on
the morning of oct. u.
Assistant District Attorney Davis In
troducod Lieut.. W. a. Jones OF the New
orlS Police Homicide Bureau as an
eXpert In the action " ~gunpowder. He
rs an expert witness at Nan Patter.
sons trial. He testified that the stain
was crusea b. a piston he'n In the
rack OF the door. Each of the turors
'xamined the powder marks wit a
magnifyfng glass.
John Canavan. the young mac,iinist
Who was the cause OF the fatal puarrsl
between Rosa and her husband. was
again In court. handcufred to an a1icer.
He Is under indictment for carrying a
'~oncealed weapon. and II Is admitted
tlat he gave her the pistol with wh!ch
sho shot her husband.
Hystericai on the Stand.
When Mr.. Noxon called Rosa Pic
chione 10 the stand she sobbed and
was so hysterical that for a time she
could not understand the oath admin
stored by Justice Tompkins. She re-
cited her story with many outbursts
Of tears. and when she told OF her
husbands i'll treatment OF her she near
ly collapsed.
II was married when I was fifteen
and We were happy" she said. "for
about three weeks. Then came a pres
ent from an old girl of his and ] wante.
20 know about It. He got mad and bel;
mo. From then on We never had peace
He never gave me money and ne came
home late and was drunk every might
lie was a barber in the New York
Athletic ia then. and made $40 y
month and board. but he never gave
me a cent.
~ never got credit for ANYTHING
did. God KNOWS what I suffered II
those two years. Soon my baby wa
bora, but he kept on beating and mis-
treating me. And ! saved $3.50 SO hs
could buy 4 shop and not go o in tn,
snow and bad weather.
John Canavan wasn't the only mar
he accused me OF going whit wa
, everybody. He abused Henry Dietrich
for speaking to me on the street, ans
, then he beat ne when Henry took hi!
ND out o. the shop"
lac Of Tragedy Nerves Her.
: When Mr.. Noxon led her 10 the quar-
el before the tragedy the girls tim
; ldity left her. Her eyes flashed, he
cheeks nus' ed and she told angr!ly hov
ner husband had come to ner In tn,
hail, branG!shing a Ratchet with whici
he mad been mailing flags on his shoI