The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-05
A CRIME CONFESSED.
A Mysterious Murder of an ItaI-
ian Explained,

Antonio Sardello Confesses Before Being
Hung in Washington for the Murder of
Fellow Italian that He Also Killed
Antonio Baldo alias SibDini, near North
East, Cecil County, IN December, 1881.
Readers of THE WHTG may remember
that over year ago the decomposed re
mains of Il man, whose appearance ndi-
Gated him to have been daily laborer,
were found in a piece of woods about
three miles from North f lSt, in this
county. The facts of the case, So far as
they could then be ascertaiued, were pub
lished in our issue of Saturday, May %,
1885, aud were substantially these:
Charles Bushel, laborer, in the cm-
ploy of the Mccullough Iron Company,
Hopewell Chapel, On the North East and
Port Deposit road, while searching for a
stray cow in the woods near his residence
on Tuesday, May 10, 1850, discovered tie
body on hill side, under bush par
TALLY covered with leaves, about three
quarters of mile from the public road
The remains were those of a man about
five feet eight inches i'll height, with a
sandy mustache, slightly sprinkled with
gray. The right side of the skull had
been crushed in, and the head and hands
were almost bare of flesh. From the
position of the body the presumption
seemed that after tho killing, which evil
dently had occurred some time previous,
the body had been dragged feet foremost
down the hill and covered with leaves to
conceal it. There was no money or arti-
Gle, or articles of value found upon the
body. A ticket on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Bllt:more Railroad
for passage from Wilmington to Chcs
ter, and letter in Italian, dated Novcm-
ber 1, 1884, and postmalked Foggia,
Roma, A. NJ b., addressed to Antonio
Sibbini, were found in his pocket. JUS
tice Isaac Deford, of North Elst, sum
moned a jury of inquest, composed of
George T. Murray, Thos. Blake, BENZ. +.
Thomas, w. II. Harvey, T. B. ALra-
hams, r. L. Thomas, J. r. Budd, 5. J,f-
ferris, J. Lynch, James Smith, William
I. Hammond. john J. Foster and SAM el
Thomas, which, after taking the testi-
mony of Charles Bushel as to the finding
of the remains, and that of Dir. 7. \
Worre!l as medical expert, rendered
verdict that the (suPposed) AntOnia Sib-
bini had come to his death by blow OF
blows at the hands of some person or
persons to them unknown. The suppo-
sition at Tie time was that the dead man
had been a laborer on the Philadelphia
extension of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. No violence could be secured
at the time indIca ting the perpetra' or of
the crime, the decomposed condition of
the body showing that the killing had
occurred some time befor', although a
faint suspicion was then directed toward
an Italian named Antonio Nardello who
had been employed in one OF the gangs
of Italian laborers engaged on the B. &
0. extension, near North East. and who
had disappeared some time in December
previous although the disappearance of
the murdered man does not seem to Lave
attracted attention at the time OF Mar
dello's disappearance.
The public authorities disposed of the
remains of the murdered Italian, and all
traces or suspicious of his slayer, along
with his killing, faded from the public
mind until Friday of last week, when
Antonio Nardello, who, on that day was
executed in Washington, ID. c., for Tie
murder of fellow Italian named Car
mine ROtunuo, confessed that, among
other crimes, he had slain a fellow Italian
whom he named as Antonio Baldo, " hich
is, without doubt, the correct mare o!
the Italian slam, the jury of inquest, as
above stated, having no one before i!
capable of identifying the remains, and
which they could only presume to be
those of Antonio Sibbini from the letter
bearing that address, and which was
found in the pocket of the dead man.
On Thursday, the 9Th of May last, Mar
dello confessed to the killing of two men
in Mary land-one man known as
BLACKSMITH, whom he slew at Gun
powder, Baltimore county, on the 1st of
April, 1881, and the other Antonio Sib-
binj or Baldo, near North East, i'll Cecil
county, in December, 1SS4-althoush de-
nying the killing of Rotunno, fer who, c
murder he was hung.
NardeIlo, a laborer on the Baltimore
and Ohio extension, who, with the muir
dered man had been so employed, stated
before his execution that he knowing
that BLldo had money he asked him to
take walk into the country on Dccem-
Der 10Th, 1884; that while walking with
Baldo he shot him dead, took his watch
and money, and sold the watch in Balti-
more. 1t will be noticed that this story
of the manner of Baldo's killing is not
consistent with the character of the
wounds of the murdered man, an exami-
nation of his remains showing, as stated,
that his skull had been crushed by some
blunt instrument, probably club or
cane, there being no bullet marks or in
dications that his death had been the re-
suit of shooting. There is no doubt,
however, about the identity of the dead
man, nor is there any reason to discreGit
Nardello's confession of having slain
him, and whose death was the third at
the hands of this bloody Italian, the mo-
tive in each case being robbery. For the
murder of the "blacksmith' confessed
by Nardello, another man named Juliano
had been convicted and sentenced 10 ten
years Imprisonment. 1t was about time
for his bloody career to end, and the gal
lows only claimed 'its own" when he
expiated his crimes last week in Wash
ington.
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