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Under the Third Degree How "Mental! Suasion" Forced a Prisoner In the Tombs to Confess That He Had Strang His Young Wife Gut ?f Pu. e W?-att?ttsss. Ohastiy. qneer and far* beyond the many strange experiences that strike (fleeply Into a newspaper reporter's memory Is that which came to me in the Tombs on Christmas ere, says Charles Somenrille In the New York Joornat Giuseppl Capuzzo. or Charley Davis, had been fat-in; trial for the mur der of his wife. Carl Fischer Han sea, the young society man aud lawyer, bad himself assigned to de fend the men and undertook to bear all expenses that might come of seeing that tbe wretched man got a just trial, j When court adjourned on the morn ing before Christmas it was apparent that the state had fastened guilt c.i Davis aud that only one result could be looked for?a verdict sending the man to death in the electric chair. ' "I believe the man is possessed of insane impulses to kill women," said the lawyer to me. "although up to this time be has steadfastly denied bis guilt He says he is the wrong man? clothes shew they were only made a year ago?" This was act a fact as fax as the lawyer kuew. but Capuzzo swallowed hard. The shrug of his shoulders then was half an admission of guilt "A woman heard you in tost room when you murdered Sophie Koehrer. She heard you go out She went to the window. She saw that It was you who left the home." Capuzzo's delicate hands were flurry iug at bis disordered hair. Suddenly he said: "They going to hlV. mo? Tes? I get killed/' ??fJu'cFs yon tell me ti? truth?all the truth. 1 think myself you Co rM de serve death. I think you hare some thing wrong In your head. Perhaps I can tell tbe judge so. and perhaps he will let you go to prison for life In stead of having you killed In the big chair." After' that was a silence of from three to five minutes?a silence so In "I CHOKED HBR?CHOKED HER?CHOKED HER!" that he never knew this woman In his life. But the evidence furnished by tbe state shows only too plainly his guilt He will be seat to his death unless be tells me tbe truth about him self. I am going now to tell blni so." Davis was called downstairs. The shabby, tight fitting blue sergs suit that be wore showed that his body was muscular and stout if small. His coarse black hair was awry ever his low, receding forehead His little dark eyes looked cr<.th troubled inquiry. It was a monkey face. The eyes were closely set and the bridge of the little sharp nose was sunken between them, and the face widened into heavy jaws, with a sparse black mustache falling to hide a lowering, thick lipped mouth. "You must tell me the truth. You canuot hide anything any more. I must know the truth." said tbe lawyer. "Ca puzzo, you know that you killed that woman." "I did not" be said, and he scowled. "I did uot. I am not the man. I never knew her." "You have sat in court You have seen them put in evidence the pawn tickets for dress suit cases that held her clothes, for riugs that belonged to her. And those pawn tickets were in your pockets." "They lie about those things being her things. Those woman's clothes I found one day. I found them in a bun dle at the railroad station at Johns town?four years ago." "And the pawn tickets for the rings?" "I fouud them too. I found them at Thirtieth street and Seveuth avenue "Now, wouldn't it make a better story to say that some friend gave you the tickets?some friend that has goue to Europe? Wouldn't that make a bet ter story?" The man saw the trap. He grinned. "No. I betier tell the truth. If 1 spy about the man. they ask me his name; they ask me lots of things. I better say the truth. I found them." Then the man rambled on. telling how he had never lived in tbe house in West Twenty-secoud street where tbe woman's dead body was found, de nying with glaring eyes that the neck tie that was found bound arouud her neck had ever been his property. "Capuzzo," said Lawyer Hansen, "you say you found those pawn tick ets in Seventh avenue?in a crowded street?" "Yes." The man was now at the end of explanations. He was looking at the lawyer eagerly and could read no mes sage of encouragement iu his eyes. "Those tickets are not soiled. They are clean. They would have been dir ty if they were lying iu the street." Capuzzo waved his hands and of- i fered no explanation. "Capuzzo. those clothes ? woman's clothes?that you said you found four years ago and have kept ever since? tolerably tense tbat I got up and walk ed over to tbe barred window. My back was toward the strangler, but 1 could hear him breathe. As I turned I saw that his face had flushed, his eyes - had become bloodshot He war ?wallowing hard. His whito, slender hands wero clinched together till the knuckles of bis fingers crackled Wbeu ens thought of the ghastly employment of those hands, the crackling knuckles became a horrible thing to hear. "Well, I did it I killed her." "How?" And then came the confession. All resemblance to a reasonable humar | being went out of C*puzzo's face ai< \ he talked. He siniied continuously?a frightful smile. Once Hansen said: "For God's sake, man, stop grinning: How can you grin like that?" But the lunatic's leer remained. He described the choking of the woman. He offered with his murderous handr. to illustrate on the throat of his law yer. At the touch of the lithe fingerr the square shouldered attorney drew back in repulsion. Capuzzo's grin broadened. "How long did you keep your fingetv there?" "Teu minutes." "Good God!" said bis confessor. "Well, maybe only five." said Ca puzzo conciliating!}-, but still with that insane smile on bis hcnvy Hps. "Why did you kill her?" "I did not think to kill her. I just choked her?choked her-choked her'. Then I did not hear her breathing. She did me a wrong." But when he was asked to tell what the wrong was a few simple ques tions proved that be lied and that real ly no reason whatever existed for his crime. "As a matter of fact, you liked to kill women; yon loved to do it." said the lawyer. Aud Capuzzo, the blood receding under the thin, effeminate skin of his face until It was quite white, flmiled slowly and said: "Yes." With slender, soft fingers he tapped gently on the table. He told of waking from his sound slumber to see a white patch of light shining un the woman's throat and of the tigerish cry of his brain that drove him to fasten his talons in the wom au's flesh. And wbeu it was all over he looked at the horror in our faces and it made hitu snicker. "You are?a?damned?lunatic," said the la wye,- brokenly. Finally be said: "Here, take this cigar. Go back to your cell. Try aud sleep. I'll do the l ost I can to save your life. It's my duty." The strangler accepted the cigar with a bow. He made another bow In nc knowledgmeut of the match I gave him. He lighted the cigar. He looked at us. And be threw back bis head do you know that the tags ou those j and laughed. Badly Mixed Up. Abraham Brown, on Winterton, N. T., had a very remarkable experience he says: "Doctors got badly mixed up over me; one said heart disease; two called it kidney trouble; the 4th blood poison, and the fifth stomach and liver trouble; but none of them helped me; so my wife advised try ing Electric Bitters, which are re storing me to perfect health. One bottle did me more good than all the five doctors prescribed." Guaranteed for blood poison, weakness and all stomach, liver and kidney complaints by J. G. Wannamaker Mfg Co, drug gist, COc. 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The Brooklyn detective bureau feels certain that in the arrest of Louis Wolf, a carpet manufacturer of 2737 Fulton street. East New York, they have caught red handed a man with a long criminal record in Chicago aud St. Louis. Every one who knows Wolf and has been entertained by his bright stories Is now trying to remember exactly what be knows about the man, and the men who have been associating with him have had to admit that they only knew him as a good fellow, that he had studiously avoided referring to his past life and that they knew none of his relatives or where he had come from. it Is a little more than a year ago aside his fashionable clothing, parting on overall* and going to work at the loom. "He is a young bustler. ** they used to say. "Wolf will be rich yet" Then be had trouble with his part ner. Wlllmer. One story Is that Wlll mer married and wanted to have bis wife lire in the apartments over the factory, and Wolf objected. The re sult was that the partnership was end ed, and Wlllmer opened an upholstery store near the Liberty avenue police station. Wolfs friends now recall that he made periodical trips to Chicago, aud the police attach great significance to these trips because of his alleged past life In that city. Yogel's cafe at Atlantic avenue and Wynona street became his headti after hours, and when be wasn't play ing cards elsewhere he got his friends to play penuchle there. He was a clever player, but lost as often as he won. He seemed to take the greatest Interest in all local affairs and took a strong part in local politics. All the women of the neighborhood knew bim. and the children liked him. But he waB especially a favorite with the men. Consequently when he was arrested, charged with picking $50 from the CHARGED WITH PICKING ?."0 FROM THE POCKET OF A FELLOW PASSENGER. that Wolf first made his appearance in Kost New York. He purchased the carpet making business of L. E. Beeh ter ou Fulton street, near Van Sielen avenue, and took a partner. The firm was known as Wolf & Will mar. From tho first they did a good business manufacturing old carpets late rugs and entabllshed a reputation In the busings world. Detectives found in the small fac , tory an Jlhmtration of how promptly Wolf met every bill. Bills for goods dated a* recently as two weeks ago were found on file all marked "paid." The factory was moved to 2737 Ful ton street, where four good sized looms were built to be operated by foot power, and an old Scotchman named George Melntyre was placed In ?charge as superintendent. Tim number of employees varied, but Melntyre, a pretty girl bookkeeper and two rug makers have been employed continu ously. The cost of the old carpets was so trifling and the profits so large that money was quickly made. Wolf made the acquaintance of a I Brooklyn judge, an internal revenue omcer, a well known physician aud a number of influential bank officials. These men found In him a good look ing young man. smoothly shaved, al ways dressed iu the height of fashion j and a suave lalker. They visited Ills factory at times, and he made a de cidedly good impression by laying' pock*t of a ptstvnger on a Myrtle ave nue car, his friends were astounded. He made a bold defense. He de nounced his arrest as an outrage, and in a few bourn some of the Influential politicians of Brooklyn were being ap pealed to in his behalf. There was a race between his friends to see who could go on his bond. Meantime Detective Reynolds had scrutinized Wolf's face and tried to re call where be had seen it Then be suddenly decided that It wa? the face of a man he had arrested three months ago for trying to pick his pocket At that time, Reynolds declares, Wolf de nounced his arrest and before the mag istrate gave the names of some of his friends. Reynolds Investigated, with the result that he reported to the mag istrate that he must have made a mis lake, and Wolf was allowed to go, Reynolds declares. As soon as Wolf was released on hail Reynolds got to work, sending to Chicago and St. Louis, with the result that he got back a rogues' gallery pic ture purporting fo be that of Wolf, with the statement that the subject had served fhree terms for pocket picking and one term for robbery. Wolf was given the "third degree." but hu did not divulge anything that can he used against him. When the rogue<" gallery picture was shown him. he smiled slightly, but refused to say a word. Girl Swallows & Crucifix. Hoped by So Doing to Become Sanctified?X Rays and Surgeon's Knife Save Her Life. There is not u Surgam employed at one of the hospitals in Paris who does not possess a museum of articles which patients have swallowed either willfully or by accident. A young woman confined in an asy lum at Clertnont Ferrand recently swallowed an unusual object She was afflicted with religious mania and be lieved that if she swallowed a crucifix she would be sanctified to the highest degree. She therefore obtained posses sion of a brass crucifix, such as nuns carry, and swallowed it. The patient kept silent us to her ex ploit, but fwo days later she got ill aud was unable to swallow food. Her throat was examined, and the presence of a foreign body was discovered. The X rays Mere put at work, and the cru cifix was found. The doctors put t!u? young woman under chloroform and succeeded in ex tracting the crucifix. Man's Foot Broken by Meeting a Black Cat. All on account of a cat Joseph Fry bold Is in Bellevuo hospital, New York city, with a compound fracture of the right foot. Fry bold, who lives at 340 Broadway. Long Island City, went over to Manhattan to visit a friend Hv-hong, steep stairwnj Ing at Ml First avenue. 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