New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
Deputy Street Commits
sioner Must Explain
His Actions.
FORCED TO SHIFT
CRIME, SAYS BALDO
In Affidavit in Court He Repudi'
ates Testimony Accusing
Two with Murder.

|, As the result OF an o.u - be
by Joseph Baldo, setting torth Vhhs ~
was forced into making q taise IGeis.;
fcation of John and Albert GGuIIai
and Michael Geno. on trial in General
Sections on charge of murder IN the
first degree. Judge Wadhams yesterday
gave instructions that Michael a. ko-
franc. who was appointed Deputy
Street Cleaning Commissioner laSC
Thursday. and Rocco Carnival, ootn
of whom were present when baldo
identified the men at Police Headquar-
ters, be brought before the court on
Monday and be examined as to their
knowledge Of the affair.
Baldo was committed to the TompS
several days ago, when he said on tne
stand that he could not identity tne
three men and repudiated the identih-
cation he had made at Headquarters
and his testimony before the grand
Jury. Carnival is also in the Iomos,
charged with perjury. ~ \,
AT the trial yesterday, Robert NJ.
Moore, attorney for the accused, pro-
duced the affidavit made by Baldo, who
is a restaurant keeper, living at Nep-
tune av. and 10Th ST., Coney Island. In
il Baldo fatty denied ever to ms
knowledge having seen the defendants
before having them pointed out to MIN
at headquarters.
Forced to Identify Falsely.
He said that he had been forced to
identify them as murderers OF Nlncen-
70 Cardilla, who was shot and killed IN
front of A Monroe ST. on December ~
nv threats that he himself would be
charged with the crime, unless ne
shifted it on to some one else. On the
night of December II, Baldo, in com,
many with Cardilla and man named
Vincenzo Milatzo, was walking do"h
Ahead of them, he says, he noticed
three men going in the same dlrectiVh'
Suddenly a shot was fired ana Cardiiila
fell. The men who made the attack as
appeared in the darkness, ana baIuo
saws that he would be absolutely una
bic to identify them, because OF thaI
reason. Michael Guimari, the prTeheI
of two of the accused men, hau oegn
killed by being stabbed seXeral "eeA'
before the murder OF Cardliia' ,.
According TO his affidavit, the next
thing he heard about the shooting was
in January. when Rocco CarnlVel,
known az dRoks," a man by the name
~ Fenimore. and another, whom ne
lid not recognize, came to hlm anu
Ia HI, that they were going to bring
Cyer a man for him to identity as tne
ore Who fred the shot They then
described the three men to MN.
"When | told them that l did not
rocoonize the description" says Baldo,
nond did not know the men, they told
me- that I must say it was the men
tbev named or else /, Roks and REM
more would be accused Of the crime.
They both kept pleading with me 20
save them and to save myseH ahG
threatening me with being arrested
for the murder
introduced TO ROfrano.
Soon after this meeting ne was
taken to Police Headquarters by TWO
noIicemen. In the room with them
We're Carnival and several detectives;
Carnival. he says, approached nm ana
told him that he must identity the
men who were to be pointed out 10
him or he would be arrested lmmedl-
atelv and detained as witness he
was then taken into another ROOM
where he was introduced to Rotrano,
who Baldo says told him would be de-
| tanned unless he identified the three
men.
~ finally said All right, I will iden-
| tify them Roks and were taken Iilt :,
another room. The door was let
| slightly ajar, so that | could see INTO
The room where the commissioners Cru
/ bin) was. Roks first looked through
the crack of the door. Then calling me
( to look through, he said, There is the
| enc that did the shooting, pointing 70
/ the man that was brought into the
commissioners room. said All right
The man was then taken into the COM
missioner's room and Roks and / came
in, and the commissioners asked me II
/ / knew the man who had just been
1 brought in and taken out, and, acting
/ under Roks's statement to me while we
were looking through the crack, | said
Yes"
Paldo then says that he was taken
before the District Attorney and that
he repeated his statement that he had
/ identified the man who did the shoot
| ing. He later testified to the same ef-
/ feet before the grand jury.