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EL PASO HERALD
Saturday March 16 1912
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FIVE ITIIliS AWAIT DEATH
. IN ELEGTHIC CHAIB FOR MURDER
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Sing Sins N. Y. March 16. Five
Italian laborers are In prison here
awaiting electrocution for the brutal
murder of a woman.
A Brutal Harder.
The murder of Mrs. Mary Hall wife
of a superintendent employed In the
construction of the Croton aqueduct
in the northern part of Westchester
county. New York on November 9
last was one of the most cold blooded
crimes in the history of the state. The
Halls rented quarters in the big:
roomy farm house owned by Mr. and
Mrs. John Rae on the lonely York-town-Crotnn
road. With them roomed
Mrs. Ellen Griffin and her daughter
Anna.
On the morning- of November 9
after' Mr. Hall and Rae had left the
farm house on their separate duties
the women noticed a number of Ital-
ians pass and repass the farm house
eyeing it keenly. However as many
Italians are employed on the aqueduct
and as passing: bands of the men were
a common sight the women paid but
little attention to the actions of the
men in the highway
The Murderous Assault.
A short time afterward two Italians
presented themselves at a side door of
the farm house and asked if they
might buy fl. quart of milk. Miss Grif-
fen who had answered the knock said
she would see. As she turned one of
the men grabbed her and the other
whipped a revolver from his pocket.
Dragging the woman Into the yard
they commanded her to keep silent on
pain of death.
At the same instant Mrs. Rae
stepped from another doorway a
search of her two little children one
aged 3 and the other 4 years. One of
the men who was holding Miss Grif-
fen called to her in broken English to
hold up her hands.
Mrs. Rae grabbed her children and
sinking to her knees. Implored the ruf-
fians not to injure her little ones. The
Italians snarled out a string of oaths
that they "would blow her heart -out
if she did not keep quiet."
In the meantime the three other
men had entered the house. In some
manner the Italians had learned that
f there was $3000 in the house reoentiy
received from an insurance oompanv
and they demanded that this sum be
turned over to them.
Details of Murder.
The murder of Mrs. Hall Is best told
in the words of Glusto who made a
confession. He said:
"The poor lady (Mrs. Hall) was
crying. I guess she was scared near-
ly to death. She fell over into a chaUr
and put her hands before her face.
Take anything you want.' she cried
here is a box." I wis going through
the bureau drawers collecting the Jew-
elry. Suddenly the lady gave a loud
scream and Zanza who was standing
over her cried out to me to take hr
apron and shut her mouth. I snatched
off her apron and as I began winding-
it about her head Zanza grabbed a
dirk from his pocket and plunged it
into her body. He seemed to go wild.
He struck at the woman time and
again with the sharp knife slicing
the flesh from her bones. Once he
missed her and the knife ripped
through my coat. When the woman
was dead he handed the bloody sti-
letto to me and told me to hide it
Later I threw it away while we were
running through a thick forest."
The murderers had sacked the house
overturning tables chairs and other
furniture. In their wanton rage they
destroyed many articles which they
could not carry away.
4 Three "Women Escape.
Mrs. Rae and Miss Griffen were
nearly in a swoon from fright when
the men finally departed. Mrs. Grif-
fen was cowering upstairs where sne
had taken reguge.
Miss Griffen was the first to enter
the house and the scene that met her
eyes was a sickening one. Mrs. Hall
lay in the middle of the sitting room
floor in a pool of blood. Her face had
been cruelly gashed and her apron
had been stuffed into her mouth.
Although on the verge of prostra-
tion from fear. Miss Griffen ran across
the neighboring fields to where some
farm hands were at work and gave
the alarm. These men hitched up a
wagon and drove to the camp of the
Bradley Construction company where
Mr Hall was at work. Mr. Hall im-
mediately gave the alarm and the
county officers reinforced by the
aqueduct police at once began a
search of the northern part of the
county. Although the land is rough
and uneven and covered with heavy
woodlands the search was prosecuted
with vigor. Automobiles and horses
were brought into use. Within 12
hours eight men had been arrested.
Four of these were subsequently re-
leased but in the meantime the police
of White Plains Mount Vernon. Yonk-
ers and New York City had been fur-
nished with descriptions of the ruf-
fians by Miss Griffon.
Rounding Up the Villains.
Three days later three men were ar-
rested near Mount Vernon. They were
all Italians of a dangerous type and
of the class generally associated with
Black Hand crimes. All protested their
Innocence of the Hall murder. The
prisoners were taken to the White
Plains Jail and in the meantime other
stray Italians of suspicious appearance
were caught
Under pressure of the "third de-
gree" two of the Italians in custody
at White Plains who gave the names
of Vincenzo Como and Fillpe De Marco
confessed complicity in the crime.
Upon strength of those confessions
the capture of the other men was
easy. The five were brought to trial
early in December last and for quick-
ness of Justice the cases established
records unique in southern New York.
Less than SO hours actual court time
was used In the four trials and ex-
cept the case of Glusto. not more than
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a s quarter of an hour was consumed
by the Juries in finding verdicts of
guilty.
On Tuesday. December i last the
five men all having been found guilty
were arraigned for sentence before
Justice Tompkins at White Plains.
All Hardened Criminals.
The Judge excoriated the prisoners
for the cruelty of their cold-blooded
crime but the five stood stolidly be-
fore the bench with their countenances
unmoved. All were sentenced to die In
the electric chair at Sing Sing on Jan-
uary 15 118. After sentence had been
passed the five shambled back with
no more expression on their faces than
they had worn before.
All of the condemned men were
youthful In appearance but with coun-
tenances hardened by crime.
DEAD BAMUT WAS
"SILENT ROBBER"
St Loals Mo March 18 Local po-
lice have received positive confirma-
tion that one of the bandits killed by
the express messenger David A. Trous-
dale near Sanderson Texas Tuesday
was Ben Ellpatrlck known here as
"the silent train robber and the
"Montana train robber"
Kllpatrick was convicted here of
passing stolen bank notes. Which It
was claimed was part of the loot ob-
tained in the Great Northern robbery
near Wagner Mont In lt- He was
recently released from the (federal pen-
itentiary at Atlanta and sent to Con-
cho county. Texas for trial on an old
murder charge.
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And Here Mr. Filson Young English Novelist and
Editor Tells Why He Thinks the Wife of .'
a Rich American Might as Well Be
the Favorite of a Turkish Pasha
THERE seems to be no end to the
succession of British estimates of
American life and character. Every
writing Englishman and Englishwoman
visiting these shores and quite a number
who have never beheld ue except in per-
spective hare "been impelled to record fa
print the result of their observations of
that unique human specimen "homo Amer-
icanos." Certain of these observers and critics-
are deserving of more attention than
others Mr. Fllson Young who writes on
"American Characteristics'' in a recent
Issue of The English Review is a dis-
tinguished novelist essayist and editor.
The following paragraphs from his article
therefore should have value in proportion
to their interest
the jjerson Is rendered alluring and provo-
cative. Why? If one of the Pilgrim
Fathers could see a group of fashionable
New York women of to-day he would in-
deed wonder how it was possible that
America should be a Puritan country.
By HLSON YOUNG
From His Article "Anerieas Character'
tetfcs" is The English Review.
AMERICANS pride themselves very
much on their attitude toward
women; but after all. leaving out
the hat-removing and door-opening part of
it what does this attitude consist in? The
American society woman is as much pam-
pered and petted as the favorite of any
Eastern harem and money is lavished
upon her In exactly the same way and for
exactly the same reason.
Her life since most American men are
closely occupied with business is lived al-
most entirely among women among the
favorites of other harems who crowd to-
gether in noisy restaurant luncheon par-
ties chattering endless nonsense at the top
of their voices this being almost their sole
distraction poo- things since for women
bo more than for anyone else (except for
children and for servants who have the
liberty to be Insolent and Inefficient) is
there anv true liberty In America.
Just at the moment when women la
American society become mature ftey
cease to live- and to grow and remain half
children half dolls. Before marriage they
can do as they please; after marriage they
Fur-ender both individuality and liberty of
thought and movement. The simple fact
of sexual charm aad attraction which con-
cerns them so eloselv. is treated through-
out in a very hvm -ritical spirit
It 1 recoenlsf" a species of youthful
idyll the poetry "f it done far more than
juftic" o for the purpose of romantic love-
nipi ir- tt . iv rcosmized up to this
point and In this guise After marriage It
is suTTJ&'d mlraculouslv to cease; but the
women Vnow well that it does not cease
mcHpun women a TiotorlousW arprmg
ffc Tprct oecinoTiQ in1" rncco?s''i! in hn
pursuit of those feminine arts by which
fe W ' w-s
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"The kind of chivalry that consists in standing up
and removing your hat when the char-
woman gets in the elevator
with you."
Bt it is; only the Puritanism Is tainted
tainted with sentimentality and hypocrisy;
its real brave clean austerities all gone
and only the primitive and savage element
remaining. For when the Americans are
forced to look any unwelcome or impolite
factin the face they cannot bear it and all
their savagery breaks out It is not so long
since Maxim Gorki and the woman "who
atood in the relationship of wife to him
were turned out of one New York hotel
after another because they were not legally
married; it is still a fact that a gentle-
woman smoking a cigarette in a New York
restaurant would be asked either to stop
doing so or to leave; and It was only the
other day that a negro was brutally
lynched because he was alleged to have
spoken Insultingly to a white woman over
the telenhone.
And all this in the sacred name of chiv-
alry It looks more like cruelty. And in
fact sentimental people are generally
rather cruel at heart; it is not really the
sufferings of others that touch them so
nuch as their own discomfort caused by
the contemplation of suffering in others;
and provided such people do not see sulf
fering or can in any way turn their backs
upon the unpleasant things that disturb
them they cease to be greatly coaceraed.
This innate vein of hardness can be
traced In the typical American counten-
ance even in tae women. The face of a
typical beautiful American
woman (and American wo-
men at their best axe very
lovely indeed) is often
marred by a line of hard-
ness in the mouth which
may be assumed to Indicate
some wonderful virtue of
charaoter but indeed does
nothing of the kind; it sim-
ply Indicates hardness and a
potentiality for cruelty which
is at least a latent charac-
teristic in most Americans.
As for virtue I see no rea-
son to suppose that Ameri-
can women are more virtuous
than any other women They
are more respectable; for
whea a woman is unvirtuous
it means neither more nor
less than that her emotions
are not sufficiently controlled.
The American woman is not
mors emotional than others
rather less so I imagine;
but she is terrified of the
opinion of her neighbors.
And that is what I mean by
respectability as contrasted
with virtue. It is not inher-
havlor is induced in a crowd
by the presence of the po-
lice. And as the American
woman has little or no privacy and always
lives in the presence of a crowd of some
kinr she is naturally respectable. Respect-
ability of this kind may be a good thing
but it is not such a good thing as virtue.
Of all the kinds
of marriages that
people make mar-
riage for passion
and marriage for
money are the
least likely to be
successful and of
these the mar-
riage for passion
has by far the
poorer chance of
survival But it
is precisely this
kind of marriage
that is idealised
in America
where also di-
vorce Is easier
than .n any other
country.
Passion is Ideal-
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"The pathetic spectacle of the sacrifice of
a young girl.''
mean there is more . .
nonsense tur . dreadful and disastrous
America than nt2!iwritte!l abot lv in
stant harpine TTuere e8e- " coa'
"pure" and "iL difference between
minor Anferi J P?re loTe- " of
conscIo1CuunfchAJ2fte--tetlcs is taeself-
a cult too self JL wth a tere P
n -or . e!5onscis to be quite clean.
mSel SSP "- m"
of the fewarfS- t0 Prot against one
Gallery wr?.ma8terpeCM In Art
maleure Thi. represent" a nude fe-
of art ande3tnd looked at the vork
the prS Trd thelr options of it In
scribPing1tn!tmatat-- I remember 4e-
woman couhf loov Su"1 whch "no pur8
not a WrUcuiarlWthout a blusb-" Jt was
was sliplf SS2T ZP-'-P111006 Picture-It
you hear mS -?Pend upon 1t. where
may reasonahi of the word pnrity- V
ua01y susnect certain un-
. cleanness of mind.
' Often friends of mine
among what I should de-
scribe as the middle
classes of America spoke
with profound contempt
of the upper classes as-
euring me that the middle
class was much more in-
. terestlng. and that It was
"really America.' I doubt
it I hope I shall not be
accused of snobbery when
I say that the most in-
teresting people I have
seen In America I do not
say -he most attractive
nave Been the richest
As fye the exclusive up-
per class society of New
York It may be dismissed
In a very few word It
is a bad and rather stupid
"Her life is lived almost entirely among women amons the favorites of other harems."'
imitation of London society. Bat for the
average stupidity and often rank vulgarity
you might imagine yoarself in these cir-
cles of New York to be in a Loadoa drawing-room.
Life is the American's real theatre. Ha
addressee himself with deliberate gusto te
all the little circumstances that attend his
business occupation; his business is far
more than a means of making money to
him; it is his hobby hte drama his religion
all in one. Hence the love of titles; hence
the number of president and vice-presidents
and officials that are created in
every business enterprise.
And even the man In quite a humble
capacity can visualise himself as an indi-
vidual unity of importance and spirit him-
self up for his arduous duties by a drama-
tic sense of his part in them. He is not
plain John Smith; he Is Conductor Smith
of the Motive Power Department of the
United Interboroagh Freight and Trans-
portation Company: and In this splendid
guise he sees himself going about his dally
duties.
There are no supers In the American
business drama; every one has a place oa
the bllL aad the majority are stars.
Boston of which they are so proud ls
spoiled by a distressing and priggish self-
cooscioesnesB that makes even genuine
scholarship repellent It ls the cultivation
not of a literary people but of a literary so-
ciety and in its results is just as unsatis-
factory as are those doses of culture with
which the travelling American seeks to
treat himself In his rapid flights to Europe.
You cannot go to art or literature as you
can to Vichy or Carlsbad or Contrexville.
for a treatment; they must grow of them-
selves The barber shop a thing characteristi-
cally American affords a wonderful ex
ample ef the substitatk of restieeeaeftn
and clrcsmstasoe for real rapidity aad
economy of time. The business man in
Us dramatte character of a tooacaottvs
pressed for time harries into the barber
shop and extends himself in a chair feet
and hands outspread a bootblack engaged
on each foot a manicure on each hand
and the barber himself operating an his
head. Bat such are the seductions of the
barber shop that he probably spends
twenty minutes or half an hour there as
against the Englishman's four or Ire rata-
utes. Ameriean sensuality like a corpse
smothered in flowers is buried deep be-
neath a pile of sentimentalities courtesies
and what are called chivalries the kind
of chivalry that consists In standing up
. aad removing your hat when the char-
woman gets In the elevator with you.
In that Innate soundness of core which
eae means when one uses the word "char-
acter' I believe the Ameriean to be abovs
any nation in the world. When one has
said -that a man or a people has charac-
ter one has said the sapremest thing that
eaa he said about taca. The golden thread
of character raas through American Hfs
and society much attenuated here and
there bat practically unbroken from top to
bottom. I believe that it is this character-
istic which accounts for what one atay
eall the American charm.
For I think that there is a charm that
ls typically American. Just as there Is a
vulgarity which is also typically Amer-
ican But the American vulgarity is In-
finitely less horrible than say the vul-
garity of the French and the Ameriean
charm ls much more delightful because
much simpler and sounder than the bril-
liant and rather artless charm of ths
French at their best
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