People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — THE DEATH PENALTY. [ARTICLE]

THE DEATH PENALTY.

Execution of a Murderer in the Northern New York State Prison. Dannemara, N. Y., June 7. Safrione Martello was electrocuted at 11:51 a. m. It required but two contacts, when the man was pronounced dead. [The murder for which Martello paid the penalty was committed on the morning of May 5. 1892, in Saratoga, when he cut the throat of another Italian named Giovanni Pafrelo and stabbed him in six other places. Jeal ous rage was the cause of the murder; Anna Guy, who .lived with Martello as his mistress, being found entertaining Parrelo. There were several witnesses of tfie fatal tight between the t*o men, and Martello was arrested and his conviction soon followed. Martello was a railroad trackman, 28 years old. 1