New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-24
SEQUEL TO VICE CRUSADE
Victim Well Known in Levee
District of Western City
" Slew Her Because She
Deserted Him, De-
clares Prisoner.
fry Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


exhibited signs of remorse as he de-
clared that she was his common Ia"
wife and that he loved her dearly the
police who have been investigating the
case said tonight they were convinced
that the woman was killed as the re-
suit of a plot to get her out OF the
way because she was an infOrmei
against a certain big gang OF ''white
slavers" who operate between Ne"
York and Chicago, with the under
world section of Bridgeport as an ex-
change station.
The police say they have information
from Chicago that the dead woman
came from there, as did Joseph Buo-
mono, the man who admits that he shot
her TO death. Buonomo, they say, was
well known in the Chicago underworld
as white SLAYER" In the woman
handbag was a small notebook filled
with names and notes apparently nav
inc 10 do with facts in the traffic IN
women. There was also a card bearing
the name of the Rev. Alice Philips
Aldrich, a noted vice crusader OF chi
cago. -
Following out the line of investiga-
ton suggested by these facts, the ponce
tonight obtained a positive identiiica-
ton of one of the five men who were
with the woman when she was shot as
big Andrew" Caponi, man wanted
by the New Haven police.
Warning to lnforners.
A year ago, according to the informa-
ton received from New Haven, follow
ing q raid on house in that city, a
girl by the name Of Cherry" Francisco
was arrested and then turned informer
against Caponi and his associates, re-
sulting in their arrest later. Because
Of threats against her life, 1t was said
the girl became panicstricken and
backed down when it came to con-
fronting her alleged abductors. 1t is
thought that the woman killed last
night met the fate which the same
gang threatened 10 visit on Cherry
Francisco and which they hold over
the heads Of all informers.
Buonomo has told the police that her
maiden name was Giovanina Rotondo,
and that she was married to a man in
Chicago Of the name of Caveoire, who
died several months ago. After that,
Buonomo said, she lived with him as
his common law wife, coming TO
Bridgeport yesterday. He also said her
ma ne was Jennie Cavaglieri
After being examined by detectives
and state policemen for several hours,
Buonomo declared late tonight that
the reason he killed the woman was
because she had refused to go back TO
Chicago and live with him as his COM
mon law wife.
Buonomo said he had lived with the
woman in Chicago for the last four
months and that this week she disap-
reared. He went to New York, and,
being unable to find her there, came
to Bridgeport to see his friend, Fran
cisco Pizzichemi, thinking he might
have seen her. Pizzichemi remem-
bered seeing her in Bridgeport and told
Buonomo he could find her. Arrange
ments were accordingly made, Blu
onomo said. and the automobile ride
with it's fatal ending, resulted.
Buonomo denied that the shooting
was in any way prompted by revela-
tons the dead woman is said to have
made concerning the white slave
traffic in Chicago. He said the only
reason he shot her was that she
wouldn't live with him.
The police theory is that despite Blu
onomo's story TO them he enticed her to
come here with him as a part Of plot
70 murder her to prevent her from
telling the Chicago vice investigators
what she knew about the underworld
of that city, now in the midst Of vice
crusade led by the Law and Order
League, which is said to have had the
dead woman in It's service.
Auto Party in Evening.
The full story of the plot gathered
by the police up to the present shows
that the pair came to Bridgeport shortly
after noon yesterday, spending the af-
ternoon and the early part of the even
ing in the lawless section Of the city.
About 8 o'clock an automobile party
was made UP, consisting Of the dead
woman, Buonomo, Francisco Pizzi-
chemi, James Matteo, Andrew Mosci.
alias big Andrew" Caponi, and
Jimmy" Lewis, alias Hartford
Jimmy" whose real name is said 10 be
James Ricco.
william Hall was engaged to pilot
the car, but the police absolve him Of
all completely in the crime.
The men stocked up with a liberal
supply OF champagne before they set
out. SO well known are Pizzichemi,
Matteo, Mosci and Lewis to the local
police. that as the car was leaving
the district, four different policemen
noticed them and thought 1t worth
while keeping track OF them to the
extent of jotting down the number
Of the car in case II should prove
useful In tracing them. The four
policemen knew all In the party except
Buonomo and the woman.
Accnrdinn IN the stnr,, told hN Hnll