Mrs. Favato Still Talking, Daily Racing Form, 1939-04-26

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MRS. FAVATO STILL TALKING PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 25 In an effort to save herself from the electric chair, Mrs. Carina Favato, confessed triple poison murderess, today continued supplying authorities with information expected to lead to apprehension of the ringleaders of Philadelphias fantastic murder for insurance ring. "We havent even scratched the surface of this arsenic ring, and within the next twenty-four hours you will see the most startling developments you ever heard of," a police official declared after detectives had questioned the portly forty-four-year-old woman for nine consecutive hours. During the grilling Mrs. Favato presumably" exposed the inside story of the conspiracy which purportedly was responsible for the poisoning of upward of 100 compai-atively poor but highly insured persons in this area. Several arrests, including that of a woman allegedly responsible for six murders, were said to be imminent. Mrs. Favalo threw herself on the mercy of the court in the midst of her trial last week by pleading guilty to the murders of her stepson, Philip Ingrao, her common-law husband, Charles Ingrao, and Guiseppi Dl Martino, husband of Mrs. Susie Di Martino, her co-defendant..


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