The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-05-14
.KILLED IN A FIGHT.
One Italian Stabbed by Another.
THE MURDERER NOT ARRESTED.

Carmi Salman, an Italian workman on the new
u. .. Railroad, near Abingdon, was stabbed
and killed, last Saturday night, by Donati Soroc-
The two men with Giuseppe Caggiano, Gut
seppe Leone and Michele Acquaro, also Italians,
worked for Mr.. Thomas II. Connell, contractor.
Saturday night they got some whisky and invit-
ed an Irishman, Mat Durbin, to join them in
drinking 1t. Salman, the man who was killed,
engaged in conversation in English with Durbin.
Sorocca asked Salman to speak in Italian, in Or
der that all might understand. This led to quar-
rel and fight and the Irishman was elected from
the shanty. Sorocca and Salman then stepped
outside the door to finish the fight Shortly after
wards Sorocca returned and laying down knife
said he had killed Salman. After changing his
clothes he kissed one of his companions and bid
ding them goodbye disappeared.
The murdered mans brother, who lives near
Gunpowder Falls, was sent for by the Italians and
finding his brother dead notified the neighbors.
A jury of inquest was summoned by Justice
Gorge NJ Hardy, composed as follows
VIM. A. McComas, foreman Edward +. Johns,
David swartz, John Wilson, Henry Baker, Gle
ment Sewell, William Sewell Il. j. Gallon, j. j..
Hall, j. X. Cunningham, John II. Preston and
Charles Harvard.
The witnesses were the three Italians Cagg-
ano, Leone and Acquaro who said that Sorocca
had taken 800 and bank book from the body
after killing Salman. The murdered man was
found lying where he fell. His pockets were
DR.. VIM. P. Taylor made an examination and
found deep wound in the left breast, and an
other in the bowels, besides many other stabs
either of the wounds described would have caus-
ed death. The jury rendered verdict that Sal
man had been murdered by Sorocca.
From the position in which the body lay it was
evident that in the struggle Saman had caught
his foot between the stumps of two saplings
and fell backwards. 1t was believed that the ia
tai wounds were given after he fell.
Sheriff Robert X. Carman was notified on Sun
day morning, and went to the spot, but could
not find the murderer or the witnesses. He as
certained that Sorocca had bank account in
New York and telegrapbed to the police of that
city to look out for him. Salman. the man who
was killed, kept bank account in Pittsburgh,
and the police of that city were also notified, as
it was supposed that Sorocca might endeavor to
secure Salman's money from his banker.
DIR. Wake Munnikhuysen on Monday made an
autopsy and found that Sorocca's knife had PEN
etrated Salman's left lung and heart; another
cut had disemboweled him, and there were, be-
sides, eighteen cuts in his back and side.
The three Italians who saw the beginning of
the fight were found on Monday and are held in
Jail as witnesses. On Tuesday they were brought
before the grand jury. Rev. Don Luigi Sartori,
pastor of st. Stephens Church, Baltimore coun-
ty, slowed as interpreter. Upon their evidence
Sorurrd was presented for murder Tuesday af-
ternOOn.
sD.occa is only 20 years of age, his victim be-
ing bout 30. The knife with which the murder
was committed was a two-edged stiletto, four
inches long, nearly an inch wide at the hlt, and
taprrlug to a sharp point.
Durbin, the Irishman has not yet been found.