The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-29

divrr; question denied IN" ali'Ec" ~
tempted assault upon Mamie.
"lho you keep hoard",s" asked Ju"~'
I;it2. ...
Not that ! know "r. Md wh2tS
more, I'm not going 10 tns""r any more
questions
All right. that's an and Iudr" H''"
the crosS-rAumlnnii"n.
Miss Mary Stevens hen stated TAG
Shr lived across tn. alley from M
scene uf the tragedy and worked u" i've
WNrr!.ng C~orrugating plant WIZ
Mamie. She frequently visited the J"'-
uu.nto home. knew the family and ,"S
and knew hat Mann" WAS a.
uuuintcd with pissclvcstr"
During all this ordeal Mamie sal
nursing her baby and calmly "h"w.";
gum. She has the dark beauty Of south
ern Italy. is but eighteen years IF age
and has Il veritablc flood of hair. hI'rN
a. night. The trylnE position in when
she had bcca placed seemed no, Ia worry
her in the least and women in t!H 2uh'-
cncc. Of whom there We're MANY. were
10 a far greater dcsrr2 tA""
she was by the testimony.
woro Girl Friends
Mary Stevens was asked that as 'h'F
mother had testified tn" ~Ja'Hu'nl'S
were not in their class, how II hhipcit'"
that she visited their home.
Well. mother didn't go there" sh"
answered. Mamie and ] worked TO-
Gcthsr and were friends. | didn't Kno"
whether Mamie was at home IN" nisht
Of the shooting or not.
ALBERT Stevens then testified n" had
seen Saratori and pjScivcstr" Walking
in the alley on several occasions but ne
never knew the convicted murdcT'r5
name until he saw him IN IN" jail.
Jimmy Pinto then &worc IiiS"INcS'ro
was a boardCr at NAMES home anu
ro~mcd with him.
Then the star witness was
over from the jail Ivy deputy rave
CIcnry. Dan piSclVrstro. Dan claimed
to speak English but he poured il forth
such a jargon that Joe Cambria was
assigned tn interpret the W
The feature of DiSrlvcStro's testimony
was his emphatic opinion that each ana
connected with the case wcr" liars
upnn nlr occasions. while he hlnlscn'
only lied on special occasions.
n, swore that he had lied IN ms
confession that no was paid S%"0 10
Kill Jim Augustus.
Pied Prom Temptation
He was offered that som bN hoSi'
.Jacuu!nto 10 murder Augustus and lie"
to Martins Ferry to be out of the way
OF tcmptatiOn. he sw0rc. On th" hlEht
of tho murder he said he was in inc
store Of n man named Sabhatina. a short
distance from JacuuintO's house.
He had never known or spoken Z"
Mamie Saratori and the reason that n"
hal sworn that he had been PAID the
5000 by Mamie. Rosie and Tony SARA
tori was because he had been told that
Tony had sworn against him md had
his arrest.
He had also been told that Tony had
visited Martins Ferry with several
Wheeling policemen looking for III
II thought they had got m" IN 'roun''
so Ia lust get them IN some" said Dan
ny artlcssly. -
'DjsclvCstro then cut loose and told
that his conviction and sentence 10 IKE
IN the pcnitcntiary was in a great mea-
sure, due TO the facial CONtortions OF
former Prosecutor David Mckee whom
he said. he had seen wink repeatedly
the judge.
Convincing wink
s YOU think Mr.. Mckee mad YOU con-
victed by winking at the jury ASKED
Prosecutor Bachmann.
Yes. | do" was the answer. Una
I was treated like an animal IN ms
court. l was lied on by the oNIH"r'.
DO YOU think the police old lies
on you $4,000
lie to draw their pay answered the
witness.
DisclycStro admitted Il" cut Il man at
Martins Ferry upon one occasion. nut
tho mar was not acting in a proper
manner. 60 he just cut him and left for
This side OF tho river and for. n tim
boarded at IaCuu.nto's.
He gave his profession as "h0otl"E-
ging." explaining II by saying he sold
4 little wniskey now and then.
In speaking OF the legal fraternity.
Disclvcstro caused n ripple Of mirth
by saying h" paid Sl.ONN {" get n IRE
sentence and II he had put up S2.0ua
he would probably have been sentenced
to he hanged.
His raucur seems To- have hHcn trans
fcrrcd to Rosia JacQuinto as he cla imcd
not to know Mamie ami never To have
seen Saratori until ne met him IN The
Jail. His examination over ne was
taken back to Jail.
Girl on the Stand.
Mani" Saratori then took tho stand
in her own behalf. Sh" swOrc posi-
lively she did not Snow D~isclvestro
ard that he was not tNc mar who shot
Augustus. Jim Augustus. she stated.
brought bad men to ner nom" AMI she
want"d to get married and E't away
from there. a stranger came in. she
stated. on The night Of the murder and
shook hands with Augustus and they
drank wine together.
Then the Soldier hoy ground out
started. Augustus was dancing with
Saratori when the Stranger fired point
blank ut Jimmy's back. The tramger
then fled out Of the sid" door.
Mamie simply sat and chcwed gum
and in answer to all of Prosecutor
didn't remember" or stuck ~s,cadCaSt
to her statements that she did not know
Danny Disclvestro and that re was not
the man who fred the shot.
At intervals tn" babe walled and the
girl mother comforted the little one
She denied point blank that SHE had
made any statements 10 either Cnicf
of Police Fred Frazier or Deputy Shcr-
if Miuard. She ciaimed sh" went to
work carly and returned late AMI paiG ,
no attention Ia her mothers bUardcrs. I
Ready for Arguments. :
She was finally dismissed from the
witness stand aud the case rested.
Earlier in the day the court had tenn
purarily excused the jury while Judrc