Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-10

assassin, or one of them. Officers and
citizens at once started in pursuit. Two
arrests have been made, one at Chester
and the other at Cuttingsville, both of
them being Italians, and both professional
organ grinders The one arrested at
Chester had with him hand organ and
one hundred and eighty-four dollars in
money the money being found in differ
ent parts of bis clothing, and as each lot
was found, he would signify that it was
all he had: The other had an organ and
some sixty or seventy dollars in money.
There seems to be, as yet, nothing tam
gible, to connect the latter in any way
with the murdered man or the murder,
except the simple fact, which he admits,
that he slept, Thursday night, within g
few feet of the place where the body was
found. It is proper to say that this fact
was unknown until be himself disclosed
it, and pointed out the spot where he lay.
In reference to the other, it is stated
that he was seen on Wednesday or Thurs
day of last week, with man who an
swers generally to the description of the
murdered man, and these two, or at laast
two similar men. were together on those
days, and perhaps one or two days before,
approaching Ludlow, and stopping from
house to house, IS is usual with that class
Some persons who saw them are positive
that this man, at this time, had the organ
found near the body, and the murdered
man, or a man answering his description,
had the one found in Chester. The or
gaps are recognized by certain marks, and
also from the fact that there was a GER
tain tune that could be played On only
one of them. 1t may be proper to re-
mark that this man and the murder
hight, and that there was some similarity
in their appearance, although one was
somewhat stouter built than the other.
Neither of these persons have had an OPP
pertunity of seeing the dead body, and
therefore, of course, have not been able to
identify it with the party seen by them
The only facts really established are,
frat, that man has been murdered, but
who he was, where he come from, the OBJ
jet or motive for bis murder, and its
time, are unknown. Neither is it ascer-
tanned that he was shot; it being claimed
by some that he was shot, by others that
this so-called bullet hole was caueed by q
stab, while still others insist that it is one
of the results of the decay of the body.
strange that the fact whether or not there
was bullet in the body was not aseer-
t4iued, % it surely could have been upon
a proper examination.
The only other established fact, is the
arrest of two men on suspicion, but who
they are, their residence or destination, is
unknown, and the mere fact they were
italian organ grinders seems to have been
the only original cause of their arrest.
What the statements in reference to the
change of organs will amount to when
properly sifted, upon oath, in a court of
justice, we must confess appears more
than problematical.
The authorities of Ludlow and the cit
izsns of that town owe it to themselves
to probe this matter to the bottom, by ev-
cry means in their power, and to see to it
that the real assassin, whoever he is, shall
not escape. through their remissness, or
for want of q proper investigation by
persons skilled in the business, no matter
what the cost may be.
The suspected parties are at present
confined in the attic of the Ludlow House,
attended by guards, where they are Wis
tied by large numbers of persons for the
qualification of an idle curiosity. WEI
would respectfully suggest whether these
men, although suspected of terrible
crime, are not entitled to a reasonable
privacy, uudisturbed by those whose OBJ.
ject is the qualification of morbid taste.
No examination of these men has as
yet been held, the States Attorney of
Windsor county being first notified of
their arrest, and of the fact that murder
had been committed yesterday afternoon
20 interpreter has been procured, al
though tk ey, or at least one of them, can
not understand word of English, and
unless guilty does not know for what he
S arrested, searched and detained, neither
las any effort been made to obtain the
ervices of detective or expert to assist
n the investigation.
TESTIMONY OF ONE OF THE ITALIANS
James III. Edminster, of Windsor,
States Attorney of Windsor county, ar
lived at Ludlow yesterday morning, s,nd
passed the day in investigating tb,, facts
md circumstances of the murde'c.
One of the Italians under arrest not
peaking English, and a tel egram to Trov
ailing to secure an Interpreter. it was
cared considerable delay might be nee
ssary before the examination could be
roeeeded with, fortunately, however, a
omPetent interpreter was found con-
ected with Barnum's circus, and his SER
ices were at once put in requisitiou, and
n examination commenced.
John Muzzio, the person above alluded
,, being sworn as interpreter, Volunte
leoale, (the Italian organ grinder ar
ested at Cuttingsville) was sworn as
fitness, and testified in substance, as fol-
'ws: s
My name is Volunte Mecale, am fifty
wen or fifty'eight years of age. 1 have
cen in this country at two different L
mes. The first time, I remained five 1
ears and half, then returned to the old a
'untry, was there two years, then came
this country again, and was in Cali L
rnia some six years and half. From c
ere came east on the 21st of August
SOP Came to Ludlow last Thursday il
I'd left at four o'clock Friday afternoon a
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