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e murder conspiracy. The accussed a
| sextet, Dempsey said, included three men and three women,
| among them Joseph Carbonaro and Mrs, Rosina Volpe, widow —
of the victim. Caricari charged Carbonaro was attentive |
to Mrs, Volpe and that both of them acquiesced in an offer
of $500 to him and Carrato for the filling of Volpe.
William CG, Downey of Catskill, who recently was adjudged
insane, was the only condemned prisoner. to whom the

doomed men said goodbye."

/ other persons in th

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| other persons in the murder conspiracys The accussed
sextet, Dempsey said, included three men and three women,
among them Joseph Carbonaro and Mrs. Rosina Volpe, widow
of the victim. Caricari charged Carbonaro was attentive
to Mrs, Volpe and that both of them acquiesced in an offer
of $500 to him and Carrato for the filling of Volpe.
William C, Downey of Catskill, who recently was adjudged
insane, was the only condemned prisoner. to whom the
doomed men said goodbye."

SCRANTON TIMES, Seranton, Pas, Jane 8, 1932.6
TRU DETECTIVE, Sept., 1942, page 62 - NY B&M EX.

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| other persons in the murder conspiracys The accussed
sextet, Dempsey said, included three men three women,
ponaro and Mrs» Rosina Volpe, widow
attentive

doomed men said goodbye."

SCRANTON TIMES, Seranton, Pas, Jan, 8, 1932.

TRUE DETLCLIVE, Sept., 1942, page 62 - NY B&M EX.

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CARICARI, Joseph and CORRATO, Atfonso

| "Sing Sing, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1932-Joseph Caricari, 2f, and

|) Alfonso Carrato, 1, were put to death in the electric

whair for the murder of Giovanni Volpe of New York,

Carrato was taken into the execution chamber finbt, He
walked in nervously at 10:57 PM and was pronounced dead
five minutes later, Caricari, walking with a steadier
tread, asked permission to hand Warden Lawes a paper, He
then said goodbye to the warden and other witnesses and was
pronounced deat at 11:09, On the paper Caricari had
written: 'I, Joseph Caricari, did not want to kill Giovanni
Volpe. I die innocent, I pray to God to punish the one

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"Sing Sing, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1932-Joseph Caricari, 27, and
Alfonso Carrato, 1, were put to death in the electric
vhair for the murder of Giovanni Volpe of New York,
Carrato was taken into the execution chamber fipkt, He
walked in nervously at 10:57 PM and was pronounced dead
five minutes later, Caricari, walking with a steadier
tread, asked permission to hand Warden Lawes a paper, He
then said goodbye to the warden and other witnesses and was
pronounced deatl at 11:09, On the paper Caricari had
written: 'I, Joseph Caricari, did not want to kill Giovanni
Volpe. I die innocent, I pray to God to punish the one

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that forced me to commit this iE I was betrayed,!
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| CARTCART, Joseph and c@RRATO, a¥fonso
| "Sing Sing, N, Y., Jan, 7, 1932-Joseph Caricari, 27, and
Alfonso Carrato, ll, were put to death in the electric
vhair for the mrder of Giovanni Volpe of New York.
Carrato was taken into the execution chamber firbt.
walked in nervously at 10:57 PM and was pronounced dead
five minutes later, Caricari, walking with a steadier
tread, asked permission to hand Warden Lawes a paper, He
then said goodbye to the warden and other witnesses and was|
pronounced deatl at 11:09, On the paper Caricari had
written: 'I, Joseph Caricari, did not want to kill Giovanni|
Volpe, I die innocent. I pray to God to punish the one
that forced me to commit this MEE, I was betrayed,!
Rarlier in theday he had made a formal cae Go coe
tant District Attorney Dempsey in which he involved ©



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