New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-24
SHE ADMITS KILLING,
AND LAUGHS AT DEED
Disguised as Boy She Fled
After Staying Marino
to Save Honor.
AVENGED BROTHER
Youth Arrested in Case Beaten
at Station Until He Falsely
Accused Himself, He Says.

Despite the fact that William Flack,
nineteen years old, who has been held
by THO police since April IL on a charge
Of killing Giuseppe Marino in a fat
at 634 East 18th St. had made a con-
fession shortly after his arrest, in
which he admitted committing the
crime. Maria Magalusio, an eighteen
year-old Italian girl, yesterday told the
rolice at it was she who shot
Marino.
The girl readily confessed to rhe
murder wheu examined and said that
she had acted in self-defence.
When confronted by Flack in AS
sistant District Attorney Brecken-
ridges Office Maria recognized him as
boy who had come to her rooms on
an errand. but laughed at his asser-
tions that he had shot Marino while
trying to rob him.
The mystery surrounding the crime
was heightened when it became evil
dent that the girl had no sentimental
regard for Flack, and that the solution
of the tangle could not possibly lie in
a romance between the two.
Flack was led back TO the Tombs
after repeating his story much as he
had told it when he was arrested.
Flack Repudiates Words.
Later in the afternoon Flack repud-
ated his confession in a statement TO
Tribune reporter. He said that he had
been forced into making statements by
a police lieutenant at the Union Mar
ket station, where he was taken after
his arrest. According to Flaek's story,
he had been knocked down and brutal
~ treated until he agreed to the de-
mands of the policeman and admitted
that he had killed Marino and robbed
him Of $95.
II was through the reporter that
Flack first learned that the girl really
had confessed to the murder. His eyes
frightened and he eagerly demanded
further information. He said that he
did not have any idea that the girl
had confessed when they confronted
each other in the District Attorneys
Office.
Il thought she was helping to string
me UP, and so ] sat tight" he eX-
planned. 81 stuck TO the same story |
had told before because was afraid
they would frame me up in some
other way if l gave them an idea l
was backing water on the confession.
How much longer do you think they'll
keep nc here"
FIack's confession had implicated the
girl in the murder b. naming her as
an accomplice in the ,obbary II was
this that led to her arrest. he said he
orce had gone to the girls rooms on
an errand and she had pointed pistol
at him. Later he saw her about the
neighborhood, he said. He included
her in his statement TO the police be-
cause it was in her rooms that the
murder had taken place.
Long Search for Girl.
Since the discovery of the body on
April 10 the police had been looking
for Maria Magalusio. She was arrested
in East 18th st. in a small tailor shop,
where it had been learned that sne
would call for a suit she mad left to be
pressed.
When asked about the matter the
girl admitted without hesitation that
il was she who had shot Marno, and
declared that she had done it in SELF
defence.
At no time during the four hours she
was under examination yesterday did
she seem at all depressed. She smiled
and laughed as she told of the crime,
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