The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-06
EL0 TRIED
u help Wife
Of JIM, CLAIM


l,,s night last summer Jim De
s1v.nsc. younger, Of the brothers
trtal in circuit court for the
s..,aer Of Angelo Frankvilla. re-
s,a6d to his home and found his
- eoue. with her disappearance
~ 1 sum OF money. Guided by
! ssxth sense, Jim rushed to the
,sflrued station in Silvis just in
- o board . train for Chicago.
- discoyered his wife in one Of
~ coaches and took her from the
ftatn.
mis- was part Of the testimony
.,,ea this morning by Ben DeJae-
- chief Of the Moline police. and
z ~ substance the conversation he
n he had with Jim when the
ie4ter was returned to the police
sl.fi0n from Beloit, Wis, in which
.Iscs he was arrested in company
IN his brother. Domonick, on
Iug rs, the day on which Angeles
hnIlet-riddled body was found in
npline.
chief DeJaeger further said that
linn had told him that his wife was
intent on going to Springfield at
The time for the purpose OF con-
sulting with the Italian consul in
that city relative to her domestic
troubles, and that Angelo Frank
Killa was in her company at the
time
.Dh you have any conversation
With the defendants as to their at
rtude towards Angelo thereafter -
l. was asked on direct examination
by the state.
II talked with Domonick relative
to him leaving his home and not
tell anybody where he was going"
@Did you ask him why%
"Yes. He said that all his 1tal-
ian friends were sticking up for
rrankvilla and did not think he
should tell anybody where they
we're going. He also said that he
had considerable money on his
person and didn't feel like letting
anyone know of his destination"
did either of the defendants tell
where they were on the night Of
the crime?"
Offer Alibi
"Domonick said they were in
their home in Silvis from dusk I'M
III early morning, when they board
ed q street car at o'clock for Mo-
line to catch the Milwaukee train
for Beloit at 1856 a. m"
did you ask Jim about the cap
that was found near the scene Of
the crime"
~ did"
did you show him the cap?"
II did,
is this the cap?"
That is the cap that I had him
Try on"
The witness stated that Jim Of
fered no objections to trying the
cap On his head, but said that Jim
disclaimed it as his own. saying
that he had gray cap in his trunk.
Chief DeJaeger said he conducted
4 search of both Jim's and Dom
onick's trunks. but failed to find q
cap such as Jim said he possessed
However. he did find number OF
cartridges in Domonick's trunk.
At the time the brothers were
arrested in Beloit Jim was wear
ing a panama hat. Chief DeJaegeI
later had both the cap and hat re-
blocked and it developed that the
lies correspondent.
I In further effort to establish the
bad feeling alleged to have existed
between the brothers for Angelo
the state asked what Domonick hat
said regarding his quitting Of en-
ployment at the gas company
where he worked with Angelo. The
witness said that Domonick ha;
told him that he had quit because
lie didn't like Angelo and cOuldn'
stand to be near him.
Gain Continuance.
Attorneys for the defense sue
ceeded in gaining a continuance o
the trial until Monday morning a
o'clock, giving as their reason
new developments brought out b!
me state that makes it necessary
70 subpoena new witnesses to offel
reouttal. The state was for goin,
anead with the trial in an effort tt
conclude today, and in the argu
ments that followed a cross-fir,