New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

1 him, Thomas Nappi was bound over
 to the next term of the superior court 1 opening in Hartford on the third i Tuesday in December by Judge James 1 T. Meskill in the local court this morning. Bonds have been fixed Ht 1 $1,000 and it is not probablc that 1 he will be able 10 secure d bonClsmHn
 as since his arrest Tuesday he has 1 been confined to q cell in the station. 1 StabbinG October 1T. l II is alleged that on the evening of 1 October II NAppi while in d brawl in ? the Park hotel inflicted a wound in l the abdomen of Charles Asal from 1 which, subsequently, an intestinal ob- 1 structiop arose making necessary an l operation. The victim died Tuesday
 morning and Nappi was arrested 1 within a few hours at the home of l his sister Jaw, Mrs. A. Nappi of 70 Cherry street, charges of man slaughter being brought following the report of attending physicians that the wound had been the primary cause of death. Brought to the sta ton he immediately denied guilt and his plea of not guilty will accompany the charges to the superior court. Brown Saw Whole Affair. Leo Brown, star witness for the state testified this morning and gave damaging evidence to indicate the guilt of the accused. He is roomer in the Park hotel. he said, and on l the evening of October Il went to 1 his room. When he felt in his pockets ] for the key to the door he found it missing and returned to the office 1 of the hotel. There he met Charles Asal who advised him to see the watchman of the building and get a key from him. Asal agreed to show him where the watchmans room was and together they started Coming l to the door they knocked several 1 times and failing to receive an answer began to pound louder whereupon Nappi called from his room above 1 to "shut up.' Asal objected to his ! interference and lost no time in in 1 forming Nappi that it was none of l his business.
 Victim Is Knifed
 l Brown and Asal went to the floor 1 above and the accused came to blows with his victim. Both rolled on the 1 floor, Brown testified. and in mo- ment he heard Asal shout:
 Gee! He's got knife. He got mel" l According to the testimony Asal l stood up and Nappi ran. The victim l then doubled up and fell to the floor l in a faint Nappi then ran to his 1 room and locked the door and Brown
 after a futile attempt to catch the l accused returned and found the 1 blood soaking it's way through the ! clothes of the injured man. Pie called l for assistance and pr. William Elan 1 agan was summoned ordering the inn mediate removal to the hospital after Officer Michael Flynn had gone over ] the ground for evidence.
 Officer Gets Evidence. l In the meantime, according to in 1 formation in the hands of the police l the accused went to the window of l his room and dropped by the aid of l a rope four stories to the ground be- 1 low. There he picked himself up and 1 in his haste left a derby hat which l he had been wearing behind Officer l Flynn in his investigation came across l the hat and brought it to the station 1 when he lodged his report of the fray. ,, At 12:55 a. m. Nappi walked lip l Main street and was stopped at the
 ] railroad tracks by Officer Joseph 1 Kennedy. He had a badly discolored | eye at that time and expla ined to ] the policeman that he had trouble in
 l the Park hotel and had been struck. l The policeman inquired about the
 1 knife and the sta bbing but to both
 1 questions the accused merely shrug- 1 ged his shoulders. He was brought
 ! to the police station, arraigned on a l plain assault charge and allowed to 1 go in bonds of $25 the following | morning to await trial when Asal l should be discharged from the hos l pital.
 | Doctors Testify.
 ) Dr. $. Coda, Japanese house doctor 1 at the local institution examined tho 1 injured man when he was admitted 1 and found him suffering great pain. 1 A wound about half an inch long 1 was found in his abdomen and was l dressed by Dr. Coda.
 l During his confinement to the hos l pital Dr. George Dunn was in charge ! of the patient and he gave a descrip- l ton of the wound today. He believed l it to have been inflicted with a sharp l pointed instrument and the tissues of
 l the stomach had been severed in such
 | a way as to indicate d forcefu1 1unge
 ! with the weapon. The immediate
 l cause of death was the removal of the
 | intestinal obstruction, he testified
 while the primary cause was the
 wound.
 Dr Fox was called in consultation
 1 to examine the wound on the day fol-
 l lowing the fray and told of his obser-
 ] vations,
 NaDpi Is Quiet.
 l Asked if he had anything to say re-
 1 garding the fight or his connections
 with it. and warned that anything he
 would say would be used against him
 in case his case went over to the su-
 perior court, Nappi replied through