Manhattan Case

The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, is interested in the allegations against an Upper East Side priest who has been accused in a civil lawsuit of taking money from an elderly parishioner. In the suit, which was filed this week in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the priest, Msgr. John G. Woolsey of St. John the Martyr parish, is accused of wrongfully taking nearly half a million dollars from a parishioner, Rose Cale, who died at age 88 last year. The Federal death penalty is rarely sought. There are only 13 inmates on the Federal death row, most recently Timothy J. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death last week for the Oklahoma City bombing. But for all the notoriety of the McVeigh trial, the Manhattan case — involving a little-known defendant, killings that received almost no publicity, and victims who were mostly drug dealers — is far more typical of the kinds of cases Federal prosecutors around the country are considering for capital punishment. Prices %26 Specifications are subject to change without notice. All product pictures on this website are for display purposes only. Actual product(s) may look different from the picture(s) because of the fast changing of the computer industry.