Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-10
COUNTY OFFICIAL
IS INDICTED AGAIN
Grand Jury Said to Have Found
Bill Against Fiore for
Assault.

Deputy County Clerk Francis A.
Fiore, who has charge of the. natu-
ralization bureau, will probably be
called Monday in the Court Of Quar-
ter Sessions to plead to an indictment
charging him with attempted assault
on a 16-year-old girl.
The indictment is said to be among
number handed into court today by
the grand jury before 1t was dis
missed. An indictment charging Jo-
seph Caprio with assault on the same
girl alleged to have been assaulted by
Fiore, was handed in al the same
time
The girl in the two cases is Mollie
Monetta. of 81 South Thirteenth
street. She is said to be a trife over
16 years of age and is now under
confinement in the house of detention
as material witness
Gaprio, it is said, has obtained a
marriage license and intended to
marry the girl today, but changed his
mind at the last minute, postponing
the ceremony until Monday. He was
at the Court House today with his
counsel Salvatore Mutt, and all ar
engagements had been made for the
ceremony until Caprio discovered
that, even if he married the girl, he
would have to furnish $500 bond for
her release on bail.
Caprio then shouted loudly: Then
| won't marry the girl" and started
from the courtroom. He was followed
by Mr.. Mutt and an angry discussion
took place in the hallway. after which
Mr.. Mutt informed the sheriffs Office
that the marriage would not take
place until Monday.
Caprio, who is a constable and q
special deputy sheriff, >was stripped of
his deputy's badge while in the sher-
ifs office, Undersheriff James F. Hy-
land taking it away from him.
Flores connection with the case
dates back to February "a, it is said,
when the girl called to see him at
the Office of a newspaper which he
publishes. Caprio Is employed by
Fiore as a reporter. and on the date
mentioned above Caprio is said to
have brought the girl to the office to
see Fiore in relation to charges she
had made, or was about to make,
against Caprio.
While in the office, so the story
said to have been told by the girl
to the grand jury runs, Fiore at
tempted to become familiar with her
but was repulsed. The girl COM
planned of Flores. actions to her
mother, and as a result the matter
was brought to the attention of the
prosecutors office, considerable
period after the alleged occurrence
While the matter was under inves-
tigation it is alleged that Fiore by
threats induced the girl to write a
letter in which she stated that her
former charges made against Fiore
were untrue. This letter fell into the
hands of member of the grand jury,
and when the girl was examined be-
fore that body she is said to have
stated that she wrote the letter after
being promised by Fiore that he
would see that she was well taken
care of If she did SO. 's-4i ~. z
1t is probable that after Fiore has
been arraigned and had chance to
plead to the indictment Monday he
will be suspended by County Clerk
Joseph McDonough.
Caprio figured in the recent trials
of Mrs. Maddalena -Ciccone and An
tonic Fiore for the murder of the
womans husband, he being the con-
stable who arrested Mrs. Ciccone and
Fiore on February 13, 1872 on a
statutory charge preferred by the
woman's husband. While confined in
jail on this charge Fiore wrote the
letters TO Mrs. Ciccone which ulti-
mately resulted in her killing her
husband by putting poison in his cof-
fee. Fiore is now under sentence of
death for the crime, while Mrs. Cic-
cone Is undergoing life imprison-
ment.
Both Fiore and Caprio are already
under indictment in the county court
on charge of libel. the case being
down for trial the latter part of this
month. Caprio. as reporter, is al
legged to have written story which
Fiore printed in his italian publica-
ton, La Montagna. The story charged
Plainclothesman Thomas j. Owen, of
the Second precinct. with having &C
cepted brides in connection with the
operation of gambling places in
Italian saloons in the Cutler and Gar