Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-26
flores WIFE GOES
ON STAND FOR HIM
Denies She Knew of Improprie-
ties With Mrs. Ciccone, Muir
dered Mans Spouse.
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murdered man. had always been on
friendly terms and that she did not
know Fiore was jealous of Ciccone.
She denied absolutely that she
knew of any wrongdoing between
Mrs. Cieeone and her husband, there
by giving the direct lie to little Annie
Ciecone, who had testified both at
the present trial and at that of her
mother that Mrs. Fiore had been
present during illicit relations be-
tween Fiore and Mrs. Ciccone in the
Fiore home.
Far more sweeping was her denial
of the testimony given by Annie Cic-
cone in reference tosa visit to the
county Jail on the Saturday preced-
ing the death of Cieeone, on March /.
1912. Little Annie had testified that
Mrs. Fiore was present at the county
Jail with her when Fiore had given
her this message to deliver to her
mother. You tell your mother that
If she does not poison her husband
will kill her when l get out"
Annie's testimony was that this
was spoken by Fiore in English, SO
that his wife would not know what
i41 was say ms as size ullQtt SlS1AAoo
only the Italian tongue In response
to question as to whether she had
ever visited the county Jail with
Annie, Mrs Fiore gave the simple
answer NO"
Questioned by Lawyer.
You were not present when Annie
says she talked to your husband while
you stood near2" asked Mr.. Finnelli.
Once more the reply of the witness
was a negative shake of the head
and the one word, No
On cross examination by Mr. Mott
Mrs. Fiore repeated her denial of be-
ing at the jail with Annie, and no
matter how hard the prosecutor tried
to get any other admission out of her
he was baked by her recourse &c
answers of II don't know" or II don't
remember"
Mrs. Fiore displayed a surprising
lack of knowledge on any point on
which the prosecutor sought informa
ton, and as a matter of fact he got
nothing out of her except denials of
statements made by other witnesses
during his cross examination. And the
prosecutor seemed to be highly pleased
with this sort of answers, dismissing
the witness with the comment, There
is no use cross examining her; she
will onlv deny everything,
Fiore Takes stand Himself
Following testimony of Mrs. Ange-
lima Rimbo Mrs Angelina MARITIME
and Mrs. Maria Luccearo, relatives
of Fiore or his wife, that they had
I-i ton ha life
of Ciccone or of Mrs. Ciccone. Fiore
took the witness-stand in his behalf.
Fiore is rather an intelligent look
ing man, but has sullen counte-
nance and shifty eyes and almost
constantly masks his face in half
cynical smile.
He seemed not at all nervous as
he took the stand and commenced
long series of mo, sir, replies in de-
NAL Of evidence adduced against him
by the State His examination was
conducted by Mr.. Finelli who shot
his questions at the witness in rapid
fire maner.
Court Interpreter Joseph Federico
repeated the question in Italian,
Flores replies for the first fifteen
This reply was given to questions
asked by Mr.. Finelli as to whether
he (Fiore.) had ever told Leonardo
Ciccone not to look at Mrs. Ciccone,
as she belonged to Fiore; If he had
told Ciccone in Guarino's saloon on
Cutler street in June, 1911, that he
was going to kill him. or that on New
Years Day, 1912. he had told Mrs.
Cicone he would kill her if she cooked
q meal for her husband.
Denied Poisoning Beer.
The simple mo, sir" denial was re-
turned to a question as to whether
ne had put poison in beer given Cic-
cone while the latter was living on
Sheffield street, and to question as
10 poison alleged to have been put
in peppers by Fiore and given to
Ciccone in the Cutler street house.
He also denied that at the latter
time he had told Mrs. Cicconei not TO
20 for a doctor after Ciccone had
been taken sick, as hewanted him to
die
The same kind of denial was given
when asked if he had told little An
ME Ciccone on her visit to the jail TO
tell her mother to poison her nus
band. and he denied that he had
threatened to kill Mrs. Ciccone If she
did not do so.
The first answer other than NO.
SIR was given when Fiore was asked
of he knew Ralph Rullo, the fellow
prisoner who has testified that he
wrote postal card and two letters
D. AIrs ficcopp a the dictatiOn OF