New-York tribune., 1922-06-21
New Evidence
Wins Reprieve
For Boy Slayer
Angelo Tumbarcllo. SEN
fenced to Die in Chair TO.
morrow. Gets u Months
Stay on Prosecutors Plea
Alleged Gang Chief Held
Giuseppe Di Maiico Said to
Have Directed Murder of
Brooklyn Shoe Dealer

Eighteen wear old Anaclo Tumha
relic. who WAS 20 have BEEN executed
q, sing sing 20 morrow night for ihe
murder last March OF Louis Balsamo
.r tho la.tcr's store A. Foriy-hf,h
stree; and Fourth Avenue Brooklyn.
uas granted a six months repricve yes
,erday by Governor. Miller. a. result
81 the arrest ssrlier IN tine dar of
Giuseppe ~ MAtteo. known - The
CoWpunehef."
After ui Maiteo had been 'aken 90
ihe office NJ District Attorney Ruston
he was accused % being the head oi
% gang responsible 'or many killings
IN Brooklyn and one ~ several Who
had paid Tumberello 90 hold-up the
Balsamo shoe store.
District Attorney Ruston saw Gov
ornor Miller ar the Republican 'iuh
after being advised - tho arrest OF pi
Ma'teo. and Il was then that the re-
spite for Tlmbercilo Wa granted.
Governor Miller said last night that
Do granted ihc repricye io enable al.
the facts FOO the case 20 hs developed
by The Kings County prosecution The
Governor said that. according 90 the
facts laid before him. ID MAttco wa
the master mind IN the murder Of Bal
samo.
Youths Friends Aid Police
The Cowpuncher" vas spprehended
Yesterday while hshing IN rowboai
OF Coney Island. Detectives Grutano
and puceiano arrested him
The arrest % d. Iatteo. ~ is under
stood. came about through the efforts
81 Tumtsreilo's friends. The youth
wa about 10 die and his friends de-
cided fha' they were willing 10 tell q
thing or two" 90 save him. They hur-
ried with their information 10 the po-
lice and an alarm was sent out Tor ~
Mattso. The uniformed force ard de-
fectives in every quarter or the c'ty
we're watching for him. Yesterday
morning Detectives Grgtano and Puc-
eiano heard that he had gone fishing
They hired 2 rowboat and for several
hours searched through the fog
Tumbersllo. according 90 The story told
the noiicc. vas only q tool Of ne gang,
Of which hi Msiteo was willy leader.
This gang. the police say, hires youths,
some - them sixteen years old. 20 com
NIT hoid-ups and robberies ~ 80 di-
reciion According 10 the alleged eyi-
dence in the nAnds oi the police, the
"cowpuncher' and his gang would a.
vide the spoils with the robber
Tumhereiio. - ~ ssid. had been given
bootleg whisky by the gang before hc
attempted the hold-up. u was the prac-
tfce Of tho gang. the police say. 70 give
the young gunmen whisky 50 that they
would do daring things without
ouGver Ire "coWpuneher' was sent 10
isl for the night and probably will be
questioned to-day.
First Reprieved June
TumbeTello has been IN the death
house at Sing Sing since his conviction
Governor Millers action extends
two weeks reprieye granted Tumberel-
10 one hour and twenty-five minutes
before he WAS 20 have been taken 10
the. electric chair. on Iune :
Counsel for the convicted youth in-
sisted throughout that he was minor.
and Tumberello's parents nlso claimed
he was under eighteen years of age
Governor Miller reircyed the appliea-
tions repeatedly made for reprieve
because - was shown that Tumbersl-
los age was given as eighteen when
he was tried a year ago. II is now
cOntended tnaf ine age then gwen
Wa erroneous.