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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933 I Poison Widow Admits Lie To Police About Cyan ide By GRACE ROBINSON. i Staff Cot-res ixudnt of Th New) SALEM, Aug. 3. Trapped in a stinging- net of contradictions and evasions, following a biting cross-examination that lasted more than three hours, Mrs. Jessie Costello today admitted she had lied to police in the investi- LA GUARDIA PICKED BY FUSIONISTS By DORIS FLEESON.

Major Fiorello H. LaGuardia was given the Republican-Fusion nomination as its Mayoralty candidate at 12:40 this morning-. The vote by which he was named was i to2. His nomination effectively removed Major Gen. John F.

O'Ryan from consideration but not, ever, until the conferees had battled for nearly six hours. Two Quit in Huff. Even then, two of the eleven v5l fsTrTT it I i -'r'-tl 1 COUNTESS' SON SAVED FROM 'CELL' A 10-year-old boy, the son of a countess, was rescued yesterday from a stifling, cell-like room in which, polica charge, he has been held prisoner for four months and brutally beaten by his mother and grandmother. The mother. Countess Beatrice de Cavara of 35 W.

09th said to be a relative of former Mayor George B. McClellan, was held iri Children's Court for trial Sept. 15 on charges of cruelty and negligence. Body Covered With Welts. Agents of the Society for th Prevention of Cruelty to Children broke into the three-story Cavara home after maintaining a vigil since April 20, when Charles de Cavara, 10, was reported absent from school for almost month.

During that time, they said, every window in the home had remained closed, even during the hot weather. On an average of once a week, one of the two women emerged to shop, always using rear window instead of a door. "Gee. I'm glad you came," tba boy cried as the agents, reinforced by police, broke into a dark, un-ventilated room on the second floor. He was entirely unclothed, his hair was long and shaggy and his body-was covered with welts and bruises.

Countess Win Boy on Bail. "They beat me all the time," said. "They used sticks or brushes participants left the conference in a huff the two whose votes prevented LaGuardia from winning the nomination unanimously. They were J. Barstow Smull, president of the New York State Chamber of Commerce and Joseph M.

Price, of the Independent Fusion Committee. When the final vote was taken O'Ryan announced his willingness to "withdraw in the interests of barmony." Thus, if LaGuardia's nomination Is approved today by the Fusion Party. approval of the Republican wing is considered a foregone conclusion his name will be entered on the ballots next November as the opponent of Mayor O'Brien. Picked by Committee. The committee which selected lim, representing a coalition of Republican and Fusion leaders, was composed of the aforementioned Smull and Price, and the following: Samuel Seabury, who championed LaGuardia's fight for the nomination; Charles C.

Burling- Mrs. Jessie Costello, accused widow, as she arrived at court in Salem, yesterday to take the stand for her second day's testimony. The late Bill Costello, fire- Innocent victims of a death tragedy, man, for whose poison The three children of the accused murder Mrs. Costello is on widow and her late husband. L.

to trial. Bobby, Anna Marie and Jessie. gation of her husband's death and that she knew the cyanide in her "boiler paste" was poison. The brunette widow is on trial for her life, charged with killing her spouse, Bill Costello, with a cyanide of potassium potion last Feb. 17.

bhe was wide-eyed and staring at the end of the courts Prosecutor day, after District Attorney Hugh A. Cregg had lacerated her for three hours with words and tones of accusation. But when the ordeal was finished at 4:20 P. M. she recovered herself instantly.

She walked from the courtroom with black eyes bright and tearless, and with an angry, defiant stride that showed plainly she was equal to a renewal of his verbal whipping when Judge Frederick Fosdick's court opens tomorrow. State Calls Surprise Witness. or anything they could grab." Police records showed the boy had run away twice, and each tim had been picked up and returned his home. Despite the protests of the Children's Society, the Countess posted $500 bail for her son yes terday and took him from court. "My husband.

George de Cavara, died shortly before the birth of our son on 3, 1 22." said the Countess. "You will have to he my lawyer for any other state-ment." She had two attorneys when arraigned yesterday, and pleaded not guilty. She has owned the houne whei she lives since the death of her husband. The Countess, who is 4Jm is believed to have sent the boy the home of friends in Danhury, Conn. TfTni h'iii'n lIMif- f-'rWifiOff'Hf In addition to renewed cross-examination, the vivid yotmg matron faces another menace in the person of a surprise witness, over whom defense and State cohorts wrangled today in a near-brawl.

She is Mrs. Carl Bisson, who lives near the Costello home in Peabody. The State contends Mrs. Costello administered the Borgia-like draught to her fire captain husband in the form of a capsule. A drug store clerk swore that she had purchased empty capsules four months before Costello's death al the very time the State says she and her policeman lover, Edward McMahon, embarked on their career of illicit love.

Today, asked by her own attorney about the capsules, Mrs. Costello declared she purchased them a year ago last March for her friend, Mrs. Bisson, and that she gave them to her before they left the drug store. Defense forces today summoned Mrs. Bisson for an informal conversation.

When she arrived at Salem Courthouse the District Attorney's minions marched her into Cregg's office without ceremony. William O'Brine of the defense attempted to lure her out of the prosecutor's sanctum, but was ejected by a State trooper on orders of the angry Cregg. Hugh A. Cregg" CrotfxamineJ Mr: Cotttllo. PLEA TO HITLER NETS A HORSE TO JEWISH PEDDLER Beilin, Aug.

3 (Jewish Tele graphic Agency). A considerate act by Chancellor Hitler in behalf of a Jew was reported In yesterday's Tilsiter Zeitung. Max Bergmann. a Jewish Ded- Fiorello LaGuardia Wins Fumionimt nomination, ham, former president of the New York State Bar Association, who served at last night's conference as intermediary and chairman; W. Kingsland Macy, heading a committee of ten chosen yesterday by the Republican Mayoral Fusion Committee.

There were also James Finne-gan, founder of the No-Deal Judiciary Party; J. G. L. Molloy of the Knickerbocker Democratic organization; Maurice Davidson, chairman of the City Party; A. A.

Eerie, spokesman for LaGuardia, and William Jay Schieffelin. When Burlingham announced LaGuardia's candidacy following the meeting, Price hasitly interjected that the choice was not unanimous. Charges Broken Tact. "You are doing what we agreed not to do," snapped Burlingham, referring to the agreement anent party harmony which the conferees tressed during their deliberations. Notwithstanding, Price mumbled that he.

represented fifty-five voters, and strode from the Bar Association Building, where the meeting was held. Both Sides to Question Her. Later Judge Fosdick ruled privately that both sides should have opportunity to speak to the witness before she is placed on the stand. The question of whether she will confirm or deny Mrs. Costello's capsule story has become the nivotal noinr.

of th trial i I il. i i ueiote me onsiaugnis oi dler, lost his only horse which made continuance of his hawking business impossible. Horses are very cheap in Memel, or Klaipeda, Lithuania, just across the border from Tilsit in East Prussia. Bergmann sent a letter directly to Hitler asking permission, in view of his poverty, to import a horse from Memel duty free. In his letter to the Chancellor Bergmann inclosed proofs of his war service in the front line trenches.

The Nazi Chancellor instructed customs officials to permit Bergmann to import a horse rem Memel without charging a pfennig in duty. Cregg. HAVE THE NEWS FOLLOW YOU en yout vacation I Send your order to: Subscription Dept, Th 220 East 42nd SU N. Y.C Check' I money order no currency I I RATES (Daily Sunday) One Month $1.00 One Week .23 POSTAGC PAID Cross-examined on the purchase of the cyanide on the night before her husband's death' and of her previous experience with the deadly stuff, Mrs. Costello went down to defeat, battling like, a tigress, Q.

You say when you went to buy the cyanide that you didn't know it was a poison? A. No. Q. You mean to tell us you had no idea cyanide was a poison? A. I may have known it was a poison Continued on jMtge col.

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