Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
LAUD|S| APPEALS
FOR NEW TRIAL.
CONTINUED from FIRST paseo

tNOntfnucu from Efrst fuSc,b
taken to safeguard the life of Lau-
dist pending the formal signing of the
application for new trial. a reprieve
VIII be asked from Acting Governor
Taylor.
Assistant Prosecutor Wilbur A.
Mott represented the prosecutors
office at the hearings before the
Court of Pardons and opposed
the granting of clemeney to either
Laudisi or Fiore. 1t had been eX-
pected that Communication of SEN
tence would be asked for Laudisi in
view of his services to the State in
connection with the trial of Angelo
Ceceriello, recently convicted and
sentenced to death for the murder of
his wife in Bloomfield on the night
of May 20 last. In the Fiore case the
action was unexpected.
Laudisi was tried and convicted of
first degree murder in connection
with the death of the one-hour- old
child of Angelina Libertucci, his sis
ter-in-law. Laudisi acknowledged
The parentage of the child. The lit
tie body was found in the city dump
on Frelinghnysen avenue on Novem-
Der 20, 1912. There was no clothing
VI iAldIho VI idGillliiJelllO1lI anu lllc
case had about been passed up as a
mystery when in January, 1913 word
reached Court Interpreter Joseph
Federico and County Detective-Ser-
geant Walter Godfrey that the Lib
ertucci woman had given birth to a
child in November in the home of her
brothers, in law, 122k Thirteenth ave-
nue., and that the child had disap-
peared.
Laudisi was tried and convicted last
May, but before sentence had been
imposed became the confidant of
Ceceriello in "murderers' row" In the
county Jail and repeated In detail to
the county detectives conversations
he had with Ceceriello in which the
latter confessed the murder of his
wife. ceceriello was convicted large
ly on the testimony of Laudisi. A
few days after Ceceriello had been
found guilty Laudisi was sentenced
by Judge Osborne to die in the cleo
trio chair during the week beginning
Monday, January 4. At the trial of
Ceceriello Laudisi declared he had
been promised no Immunity or aid by
the State for testifying against
Cecerjello.
Engineered Murder from Jail.
Antonio Fiore bears the unique dis
tinction of facing death in the cleo
trio chair for murder committed
while he was confined in the county
Jail ON a statutory charge. He was
convicted of completely In the murder
of Leonardo Ciccone, who came to
his death in March, 1912, by means of
poison administered by his wife, Mad
dulena Ciccone.
Fiore and the Ciccone woman had
been intimate and in a note written
by Fiore from the Jail to the Ciccone
woman he had urged her to get rid of
her husband so that F1ore could
marry her when he got out of jail.
His Notes Used in Evidence.
The note also directed her to get
poison as the means of killing her
husband After the death of the hus-
band and the arrest of Mrs. Clccone
Fiore tried to get notes to her, urging
her to keep still and say nothing
about the poison or the notes he had
sent her. These notes were Anter-
cepted and corroborated the previous
notes told of by Mrs. Ciccone In her
confession. F'iore was tried and con-
victed on the testimony of his ac-
complete. An application for new
trial was recently refused by the
Court of Errors and Appeals and last
week Fiore was resentenced TO death
by Judge William p. Martin, the week
beginning February l being named as
the date of the execution of the SEN
tence.
Death Wiped Out Evidence.
1t has always been contended by the
State that Fiore was guilty of muir
der In 1909, when, with Angelo M. Ca
prio, he stabbed Salvador Borreco to
death in Cutler street Caprio and
Fiore We're arrested and charged with
this crime, and it is claimed that Ca
prio had made a complete confess on,
in which he told how he had held
I3orecco in a chair while Fiore cut his
throat
While awaiting trial in August, 1910,
Caprio made an effort to break Jail,
and, after he had wounded Indian
Jack" Bryan so severely that he Is
for life, Caprio was shot to
death by Hugo Corby, a keeper at the
Jail. with the death of Caprio went
all the evidence connecting Fiore with
the murder of the man in Cutler
street, and he was never tried on the
charge of murder. Instead, he was
tried on a charge OF assault and bat-
terry and sentenced TO a six months
term in the penitentiary.