The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 28, 1908, Page 3, Image 3
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.
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Merchant Takes as Pickpocket
AJjeged Dual Life of Louis Wolf of Brooklyn Dazes His Many
Friends?Popular as a Clubman?When Rogues' Gallery
Picture is Shown Him Ho Feebly Seniles.
, The Bast New York section of Brook
lyn i3 fairly stupefied by what prom
ises to develop into one of the strangest
cases ef criminology ever entered on
the local police blotters. The discov
ery is that a local manufacturer, who
m less than a year ingratiated himself
Into the confidence of the leading busi
ness men and politicians of Brooklyn
and nightly played cards with a coterie
of these friends, must defend himself
on the vulgar charge of being a pick
pocket ?
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
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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.
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over to Manhattan to visit a friend Hv-hong, steep stairwnj
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stairs, he was met by a black cat com
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Frybold to lose his balance. He tum
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