Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-02
A Romantic Crime.

'''V'y Vy % hodH IFutctSco Detecttpe-INt a
Last Deed Of a Professional Assassin.
Since the recent pardon Of Nine. La
carl, convicted of being accessory to the
murder of her husband in Visitacion
Val ey, CAL, some points in the case no,
heretofore known have been brought out
. One of Chief Crowley's detectives tells
the following story of the murder and
arrest Of the criminals: sas
Nine. Lacari, was woman whom you
would suspect at a look. On the day OF
the murder she inveigled her husband
into ride to Visitacion Valley. On ar
irving there man stepped fro n behind
large rock, and after few moments
parley, shot poor Lacari dead, and liter
ally riddled his body with buckshot.-
Thefirst intimation of the murder by
any one but the actors was the appear
apce of the wife at an Italian garden,
some distance of, where she related the
circumstances Of her husbands attack
and murder by some unknown assassin,
and, in proof led them to the body of the
murdered man. When the information
was brought to the city. the detective
force was Immediately set to work to fer
ret out the case. From several small
circumstances, we became convinced that
the wife had been instrumental in the
murder of her husband, and we held her
to await the result of an investigation.
1t then transpred that she had been
on very intimate terms with one Piano,
and that boon companion of Pianos
was villainous looking Italian named
BruZzo. Since the murder neither of
them had been seen in their favorte
haunts, and this strengthened the suspi-
cion of their guilt, and sharp lookout
was kept for them.
One night Capt Lees and myself took
a walk down to the Italian portion of
San Francisco, and not finding any clue
to our men, we were returning tothe Hall
when our attention was attracted to the
Italian coffee saloon standing on the cor
ner of Merchau. and Sansome Streets
Entering, we cast glance around the
room, and fixed on the man who answer
ed the description of Bruzzo. We watch
ed him for while, aud becoming fully
satisfied that we had our man, went to
him as he stood at the counter, and iD a
familiar tone addressed him with, !" Hal
10, Bruzzow
Ee turned and stared at us with a
wonderment that We then thought feign-
ed, and jabbered some words in French
that were uninteligible to us.
Suddenly he made a grimace, by which
we knew that he recognized the name,
and in an distracted manner he kept
muttering," Bruzzo, Bruzzo?y and then
drawing letter from his pocket, he an
swsred in broken English:
Yes zair, / understand. Bruzzo, he
send me this letter from Sacramento to-
day."
Possessed of this clew we started to
Sacramento, and there learned that
Bruzzo had left that day by railroad to
Placerville. AT Placerville we lost all
trace Of him, and were at halt. While
roaming around the place, we ran across
Jack Davis, who had robbed Senator
Reddington of a lot of valuable iewelry,
and arrested him.
While we were in Davis's room we
heard conversation about man who,
from the general way in which he was
described, we knew must be Bruzzo.-
Giving Davis into the custody of the
Sheriff of Sacramento, Lees aud myself
began the tour of the groceries and
grogge,ies of the place. Toward evening
we entered one of the worst in the town,
and calling the landlord aside, Informed
him of the purpose of our visit, and al
SO intimated that the best thing he could |
do would be to come out square. He did |
not attempt any equivocation, but said
that Bruzzo had stopped at his house and
had left three days before, with a mule
train for Virginia City. He also told |
us that our fugitive had left trunk be-
hind him, and of this we took possession.
In it we found letters which led to the
arrest of Piano, who was hid away in
San Francisco. His trail was taken up
again, and after several days we arrived
1T Strawberry Valley, and there learned
hat Bruzzo had gone ahead, and was by
that time near Virginia City. /
On the day of our arrival at the lat.
er place, as was strolliDg along one of
he streets, | turned corner rather ah-
:uptly and went plump against Bruzzo.
He did not know me and did not ex-
press any surprise. but, as far as was
l hardly can tell how / felt.
n less time than tell this, I recovered
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