Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-24
Rosie Bruno Had Ap-
peaIed to Charity
Workers.
FORMERLY OF CHICAGO
Nick Sarari Killed in Under
world Quarrel Over Her
Possession Last July.

Chicago. Oct. 24.-Charity workers
in the segregated district here threw
some light on the history Of Jennie
Cavaglieri, who lived here as Rosie
Bruno. She had appealed to them for
protection from the life she was lead
ing and had asked help to establish
herself in better surroundings.
Information she gave the charity
workers Is in possession of govern
ment agents of the department of
justice, who gained therefrom new
knowledge concerning an intermlt-
tent traffic 10 women. Joe Bruno,
with whom she lived here, was named
in her story. 1t was disclosed that in
fight over her possession. Nick Sa-
rari. a resident of the restricted dis
tlict was killed last July 4. She had
lived at Sarari's house and Bruno took
her to the house of man named Mer-
ino. Sarari came to claim her and
Merino shot him dead.
SLAYER CONFESSES.
Bridgeport, Conn, Oct. 24.-After
being questioned by detectives and
state policemen for several hours last
night Joseph Buonomo of Chicago, ad-
mitted that the reason he killed his
| common law wife, Jennie Cavaglieri,
was because she had refused to go
| back to Chicago and live with him.
J Until last night he had steadfastly
maintained that he did not know what
he was doing, being drunk when he
with the four other men took her in
an automobile to a cemetery near
Putney and shot her to death.
He said that he had lived with the
woman In Chicago for the last four
months and that this week she was
found to be missing. He went to New
York and being unable to find her
there, came to Bridgeport to see his
friend Frank Pizischillo, thinking he
might have seen her in Bridgepor.
and told BIonomo he could locate her.
Arrangements were made and the au-
tomobile ride with it's fatal ending
resulted. Buonomo denied that the
shooting was III any way prompted by
revelations 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
would not live with him.
POLICE HOLD TO THEORY.
The police, however, still cling to
the theory that the woman, who was
a character in the Bridgeport under
world, was killed because she had re-
vealed the inner workings of the
white slave traffic in Chicago. Buon-
ONO, together with Joseph Mattio and
Frank Pizischilli, who were arrested
after the shooting, are being held
pending a hearing Saturday.
No trace has been found of the two
other men in the party who disap-
peared after the killing. They are
said to be Jimmy Lewis, alias Hart
ford Jimmy" and Andrew Campan-
clio, alias big Andrew"
While Buonomo's confession seem
ingly nullifies the police theory as to
the motive, police officials still insist
that the shooting is an outgrowth OF
white Slave troubles in Chicago. Their
principal reason for ciinging to the
theory is because of the character of
the men who were with Buonomo at
the time of the shooting. Matteo and
Pizischillo the other men being he. n
also were subjected TO a close exam
ination last night. but each in turn
denied any knowledge of premeditated
shooting. They declared they knew
Of no motive for the crime.