The Washington times., 1920-01-25
ND. NOMAN ADMITS.
Staying HUSBAND.
Mrs. Fabrizzio Tells OF Shoot
ing, According TO Police
Officials.

WESTMINSTER. Md, Jan. 90
Mrs. Dominic Fabrizzio, held here In
connection with the Staying on jan
uary o at Union Bridge, Nd OF her
husband has confessed that she shot
her husband TO death.
When arrested here the woman Is
said to have given a detailed story
of the killing, charging Ernesto Po-
tenziani. boaTder In their home,
with the crime. She was taken to
Westminster and held as states
witness When told OF the charge
made by her. Potenziani, who also IN
held In Westminster. jail, protested ms
innocence and put the blame on Mrs
Fabrizzio.
BoarJer says lie Knew OF Crime,
states Attorney Brown visited the
Jail in company with Court lnterpre-
ter Pippitone, of Baltimore. Poton-
ziani IL is alleged, admitted tina. ne
had known OF the murder soon after
IL occurred. He said he was in ped
asleep at about 8 o'clock in the morn
ing, that the woman went to his room
and awakened him, telling him Fa-
brizzio had beaten her that morning
and the night before and that he had
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railroad track. She was scantily
clad, he said she told him. and begged
Fabrizzio to let her 80 to the house
TO get her gloves He consented. she
went to the house. got a shotgun, re-
turned, carrying IL behind her back,
and shot him and placed the body on
the track.
Potenziani, it is claimed, said the
woman told him that II her husband
were to be killed they would have
plenty OF money and could return to
Italy and live together; that after
the killing he promised the woman
not TO tell the secret, and that he
kept his promise until he learned she
had accused him OF the crime.
Woman Exo.eYstes Border.
Mrs. Fabriezzio, the dispatch says.
was then taken into the jail office,
carrying in her arms her two-month-
old baby. The first question she was
asked was: DO you want to tell any
different story from that which you
told in Baltimore, or do you want to
add anything or take anything away
from that storyy'
After hesitating moment, Mrs.
Fabrizzio replied:
Eyes; / did not tell the truth then,
and / want to tell II now"
"Ernesto had nothing to do with
it,"
She said she was from Rome. and
her husband from near that city, that
he married her because she had
money. He always was cruel to her.
she said, and frequently beat her
while living in this city, driving her
out on the streets at night and
threatening her life. She showed
scars on her head and arms which
she said were results OF his ill-treat-
ment, and pointed to cicatrices on her
arms and wrists, caused, she said,
by his pushing her hands into Are.
They had quarrel recently. she
said because he said he was going to
send 800 to girl in Italy, whom
he still loved.
TENS OF Killing.
On the morning of the killing. Mrs
Fabrizzio is alleged to have said, he
got up before 4 o'clock, dressed and
went to her bedside and ordered her
to get up. He had a pistol, she said
He seized her by the throat, choked
her and dragged her out of bed.
forced her to dress and dragged her
from the house, telling her that he
was going to finish her, she declared
When a short distance from the
house she slipped away from him and
returned TO the kitchen, where she
took the gun from the wall, she went
on.
At this point in her story, accord
'ing TO Jail officials. Mrs. Fabrizzio
arose and went to a corner of the Of
flee where stood shotgun. Picking
1t up. she showed how she carried it
by her side returning to FabrizZio.
and enacted the scene. She said he
could not see the gun, for it was dark.
AS she walked by his side he pointed
the revolver at her and said he was
going to kill her, she said. She threw
up the gun, and when he saw II he
turned to run. and when he was about
ten feet away she fired and he fell,
dropping the revolver, which she
picked up and carried to the house,
where she told Ernesto the story.
Mrs. Fabrizzio declared that her
husband and Potenziani were not
Jealous of each other, but were good
friends, and that Potenziani had moth
ing to do with the killing: that she
told him of 1t to relieve her mind. and
he promised not to reveal her secret.
She declares that she killed her hus-
band on the railroad track and that
neither she nor anyone else put the
body on the track. She denied ever
having been unduly intimate with Po-
tenZiani. and said she never had pro-
posed to him TO return to Italy with
him.
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