Tn sentencing Pasquale Viols to from
five to ten jeers in Sing Sing prison,
Justice Kapper of the Supreme Court."
sitting at Mlneole, yesterday advocated
State monopoly of the manufacture and
sale of firearms. Viola had been found
guilty of manslaughter for killing Joseph
Coptillllo of Rockvtlle Center because I
Copullllo taunted him for being a "sick I
man" and boasted that he could take Vi
ola's wife from liltn whenever he wanted J
to do so. Viola Is nn ex-soldier and Is ;
said to be suffering from tuberculosis.
Justice Kapper attributed holdups and
robberies to the ease with which firearms
can be obtained. "The manufacture and
sale of firearms which can he concealed
upon the person should be stopped," he
said. "The various States through their
Legislatures can do this. The police
power of the States is competent to con
flscste all such weapons. Appropriate
legislation should he enacted at the
earliest possible moment to this end.
Ammunition should nt once he out
lawed."
An Inter-State commerce embargo on
firearms by the Federal Government
would be of materelnl aid, he thought.
"Pistols and their cartridges," he said,
"are no more a fit commodity for gen
eral and indiscriminate purchase than Is
poison."
F.IBCTRD FOH Ran TIME,
WiiTTmsviLtJe, Mass., March 27.?
Frank A. Cross of Northbridge claims
the Massschusetts record as a long dis
tance office holder. At the town meeting
to-day he was elected constable for the
fifty-second time. Constanhle C:-oss Is
77 years old and was born In Maine.
Dnrlng the civil war he ncned with a
Maine battery.
PORK BARREL BILL
RAISED $15,000,000
3Iondell, Who Helped Jam
Bonus Bill Through, Call's
It a ?Raid.'
LUMP SUM IS ADDED
Chamber Votes 3 to 1 for
Amendment Along Sec
tional Lines.
