Putnam patriot., 1921-08-12
SAYS THAT NEIGHBOR, FOUND
WITH KNIFE, MADE THREAT
MRS. ESTHER cIRARDI SAYS CARMEN CiNQUEGRENE
TOLD HER THAT HE WOULD FIX" BOTH HER
AND HUSBAND.-DEFENDANT DENIES
Italian Is Found Guilty of Breach of Peace Carrying Weapon
and of Intoxieaton-Is Fined S2174 BY Judge Gesser

Charged with intoxication. breach
of the peace, threatening 10 hurt Mrs.
Esther Girardi and even 70 KIN her.
ana with carrying a knife with a blade
more than four inches long. Carmen
Cinqaegreue was brought before the
city court Monday morning. Judge
NJ. II. Geissler found that Cinoue-
creme was guilty Of being drunk. Of
breach OF the peace and Of CARRYING
a knife with blade Of illegal length.
he hned him S2l.7s and then gave
him and Mrs. Girardi lecture on the
righteousness Of quarrehng.
olnquegren pleaded guilty To the
knife charge and drunkenness through
ms attorney, A. s. Macdonald. al.
though he claimed he was not guilty
OF the other charges. Witnesses for
the defense and prosecution told con-
Trajectory stories about what cinque-
creme had done on the night of his ar
rest, Saturday, in spite Of the fact
that all were placed under oath. The
greatest divergence seemed to be
over what the accused had said to
Mrs. Girardi in Italian, for the de.
PENDANT and his wife both swore that
no threats had been made while the
woman claimed with equal vehemence
that language had been used which il
would shame her to repeat" and
threats of murder had been made.
Mrs. Girardi as the first witness
said that Cinquegrene had come home
at about $50 o'clock Saturday night
The two families lived in the same
house and both housewives were in
front. Suddenly without any warn
ing, Mrs. Girardi said, Cinquegrene
had launched against her a most VIC
lent verbal attack The language he
used, according TO her story, was
shameful, 50 that she had to take her
two little girls inside the house where
they couldn't hear it. He had threat
ened to finish" both her and her
man.
Under questioning by Mr. Macdon-
aid, Mrs. Girardi said that she had
seven children and admitted that her
family had been the means of getting
her into numerous quarrels with her
neighbors. She said that she had hit
the wife Of Cinquecrene with a cook
ing pan at one time during a quarrel.
She also confessed to having received
a letter from the superintendent Of
the tenement in which she lived, stat
ing that unless there was less quarrel
ing. she, Mrs. Girardi, would have to
vacate.
Mrs. Blanche Rerard, cousin Of
Mrs. Girardi, said that she had been
present during the quarrel on Satur-
day night. She said that Cinquegrene
had made threats that he would fix
Mrs. Girardi and her husband no mat
ter If II cost him 500 or 5000. She
admitted, however that Mrs Girard
had qsarreled with the neighbors con-
siderably and that she couldn't I'M
derstand most Of what was said. as
she knew nothing of Italian.
Officer Ernest Chandler testified
that on complaint Of several young
men he had arrested Cinquegrene and
had brought him in an intoxicated
condition to the police station There
he had found on searching that the
man had in his possession a knife
with a blade more than -four inches
long.
Cinquegrene said he had been liv-
ing in Putnam for seven years, and
was now living in a tenement on Main
street. He claimed that his child and
the Girardi children were always quar-
reling. He had been home all day
Saturday as there was no work at the
Niehtingale-Morse mills, where he was
employed, for him.
Saturday forenoon. he said, his
wife and Mrs. Girardi had had dis