The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-18
TONY SARATOR| FOUND GUILTY
Of PERJURY IN MURDER TRIAL

heard the words guilty as charged in
the within Indictment" read by Deputy
Court Clerk Lionel SiShtcnEale But
his defiant bitterness returned as ne
crossed the bridge OF signs TO the jail.
Attorneys J. NJ. Ritz and \. J. Porter
offered the customary motion to set
aside the verdict and grant a new trial.
, This will be argued later.
= Prosecuting Attorney Carl c.. Bach
mann and his assistants. Austin V.
, Wood and Clinton Campbell, were high
which they handled the case. 1t is the
first trial they have handled before q
jury since Mr.. BaChmann became prose-
! cutor. and the verdict Is REGARDED as
, a knockout to the Black Hand gang in
Wheeling. The prosecuting attorney
was given valuable assistance during
: the trial yesterday by former Prosecut-
ing Attorney D. \. Mckee. under whose
administration many chapters in the
famous dance Of death" case were
enacted
Three Cases Pending.
Three more perjury cases are pend
ing growing out of the same nlurd"r
trial. The other defendants are Rosia
Jacquinta, the common law wife OF
, Jim Augustus: her daughter, Mamie
Jacquinta Saratori. now the wife OF
/ the convicted Tony Sarato-i and Oliver
J Churduli.
After placing the blame for the kill
Ing OF Augustus on Danny Disselvestro
: at the trial OF Tony Saratori on A
! charge OF committing the murder, all
{ four of the defendants changed their
. story it is alleged. in the recent trial
/ Of Disselvestro. and swore that It was
not Disselvestro who did the killing.
, After being convicted, Disselvestro con-
! feSSed the crime, and his confession
l. resulted IN the arrest OF the four Ital-
: ians on charges Of perjury
curdling Story Il Told.
J. me criminal court. room in the City
building was crowded all OF yesterday
with number of witnesses and a
throng OF curious persons to hear the
proceeding OF the trial of Tony Saratori
on a charge OF perjury. which 1t is said,
NE committed in conjunction with his
mother-in-law. Rose Jacquinto, and her
daughter, Mamie Jacquinto.
Attorney John S. Ritz is making \
heroic fight for his client but a witness
he called during the late afternoon,
Rosie Jacquinto, In manner, upset the
I bean platter by stating that she had
seen the defendant, Tony Saratori, and
the man upon whose confession he was
arrested, Disselverto, talking together
several times and that DisselYerto had
roomed at her home in Alley Is.
The tale Is sordid one from begin
ming to end, but smacks with the flavor
Of old Sicily and the Camorra band in
this country known as the Black Hand
society and it, while DisselVerto was
, detailing his confession OF the crime to
the court, Judge Alan Robinson, the
prosecutor. Carl Bachman, and the
crowded court room, the apartment
could have been darkened and tremu-
IouS Slow music could have accompanied
the recital. the effect would have been
electrical and even the most hardened
Of officers and those used to the detail
: OF crime. would have shuddered.
He told me TO shoot once and II
didn't make good there were others
there to finish IT," said Dlsselverto, who
seemed not only to disregard the crime
Consumed with a desire only to get even
with those whom he claimed had given
him the worst Of II.
The story OF the crime Is as follows:
On Sunday morning, in September,
1919, 4 young son of Rosie Jacquinto
complained to the police that the man
whom he called father" Jim Augustus,
was beating his mother.
AS these complaints were not unusual
no attention was PAID 10 the ina alter.
That night, Jim Augustus, the COM
mon law husband of Rosie Jacquinto,
was shot at the home Of the woman in
Alley Is.
Police and detectives who hurried Ito
the scene found Jim lying in the yard
In the rear Of the Jacquinto home with
Tony Saratori bending over him. Sar-
atori claimed the man had been shot
and he was trying to rcSusc!tate him.
When found. Saratori was bending over
Augustus. apparently kissing him.
Jim Augustus vas taken to the Ohio
Valley General hospital where he died
some hours later. While the man was
dying. IL is alleged that Rosie Joaquin
to, who was at the bedside. nudged him
repeatedly in an effort TO keep him from
telling what he knew to the officers
who were there to take an ante norton
statement. ,
However her efforts were of no avail,
for with his dying hreaths .he told In
gasps that he had been shot by Danny
DisSeivestro.
The state secured indictments on Dis
SivcStro. Tony Sartor mad just been
p rduncd ny GuN"rGCr l"hH i. tornwell
for participation in Black Hand out !
RACES tor which h" had keen sentenced
to five years n the Moundsvil!e peni-
tent!qry in 1915.
Sartnri was arrested and charged with ,
the murder and Rosa JacQuinto WAS I
taken into the tolls in the court room !