Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-30
NINE MURDERERS
!. TRIED THIS YEAR
Five of Them Convicted in First
Degree and Two Set
Free.

Nine murder trials constituted the
record Of the local criminal court for
the year which closed last Saturday
that being the number that were
disposed Of by Chief Justice William
S. Gummere and County Judges
Harry V. Osborne and William P
Martin.
chief Justice Gummere had one
trial. the second one of Allison M
MacFarland last October. when he
was acquitted on a charge of murder
ing his wife. Judge William P. Mar
tin heard four of the cases. those
of Mrs. Madelina Ciccone and An
tonic Fiore. charged with the murder
Of the wonan's husband, Fiore being
twice tried; Giuseppe Ferrari, charged
with the murder of his brother; Sal
vatore and Antonio Loponio, found
s7,iltv Of the murder of Policeman
John ]. McGovern.
Judge Osborne heard the cases OF
william Henry Overton. charged with
the murder of his wife and inIanI
child: Alfonso Laudisi, charged with
the killing of the infant child OF ms
sIster-in-law, Angelina Libertucc1,
and of Giuseppe Longo, charged with
the murder of Luigi Scardi. or these
three Overton and Laudisi were FOUND
guilty of murder in the first degree
while Longo escaped with conVic-
ton for manslaughter on which ne IS
now serving a five to ten-year SEN
tence.
OF the nine murder trials during the
year convictions of murder in the
first degree were found in five cases
and the prisoners sentenced to death
in the electric chair. In one case
that of Mrs. Ciccone, her sentence
was later commuted to life imprison-
nent by the Court of Pardons. Or
the other four, Loponio, Fiore, Over
ton and Laudisi. the original dates
of their deaths have been passed, the
executions having been stayed by ap-
peals taken to the Court of Eros and
Appeals MacFarland and Ferrari
were found not guilty, while the first
trial of Fiore resulted in disagree
ment, and Longo. as told above, es-
capped the chair by a manslaughter |
verdict.
During the year there were four !
murders committed in which the /
murderers made their escape and /
have not been apprehended. The !
most important of these was that OF /
the slayers of Plainclothesman John
J. Gaffney on Lafayette street on the 1
evening of December 6 last. Ottillio |
Pobparardo, who on october 6 last |
shot and killed his brother Amelio, /
also got away, as did the slayers in
two more recent cases. those of Ber- 4
nardo Ferrari, who stabbed John |
Petrillo to death at 1872 Tyler street 1
on May 10 last, and Walter Mills, a |
negro, who killed Mile Munday, a
negress, in Montclair on May IA.
There is an unusual list of murder /
cases, all told. that will be ready for |
trial at the fall term of court next |
September. The most interesting one |
of the lot and the only one in which |
a date has been fixed is that of Mrs. /
Mabel Moser. who will be brought to
trial before Chief Justice William S.
Gummere September IT for the muir
der of her husband, Ferdinand c.
Moser, on May last. Others under
indictment for murder and who Will
be tried early in the fall, are Balda-
sara Sarauso, charged with the killing
of Stefano Crissifello, in a Ferry street
saloon on January IL last; Peter Des-
kowich. who burned his wife to death
In Nutley on March Is; John Dolan,
who killed his wife by cutting her
throat at their home, 81 Bruen street,
on May 20, and Adolph Kabeczewski,
who on April 10 shot and killed his
sweetheart, Mrs. Mary Bel Berlinski,
at her home, Sc Charlton street.
Nicholas Callan, who is under arrest
charged with the shooting to death of
|Charles A. Hinderer in front of sa-
loon at Centre street and Division
place May %, and Angelo and Vim
denzo Ceceriello, charged with the
killing of Mrs. Alvira Ceceriello. the
young wife of Angelo. just month