The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-13
MURDERED BY DECREE.
East Newark's Tragedy the
Work Of an Italian Secret
Society.
FOUR PRISONERS IN JAIL.
Why the Terrible Cash in Gaudi-
amos Throat May Have Been
Made After He Had Been Shot to
Death.

Death.
The assassination of Gaudiano, or
Avidfos, the bootblack, whose terribly
mangled body was found In a secluded
spot in East Newark last Sunday morn
ing, promises to develop into one of the
most startling sensations of late years.
Three Italians and the child wife of the
gray haired victim of the tragedy were
lodged in the Hudson County Jail last
night to await the further action Of the
Authorities. One of the men is Sperido
who. as reported in THE JERSEY CRY
NEWS of yesterday, is thought to be the
man who was last seen in Gaudiano's
company.
Another of the men is named Sap
parinto. Saloonkeeeper Reinhardt, of
East Newark, had seen squint eyed
Italian in his saloon with Gaudiano on
Saturday night. Sperido, who has q
peculiar eye, was one Of the inmates OF
an Italian dive in Newark in which
Gaudiano lived at the time of his death.
Sapparinto, who also boarded there, has
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arrest also.
Sperido has been partially identified by
Reinhardt and the suspicious against
him are further confirmed by the dis
covery at the place of the murder of
fragment of blue necktie that is alarm
jngly like that which Sperido wears.
The third male of the prisoners is the fif-
teen-year- nephew Of Gauoiano. who
said that his uncle had been murdered
before the body was found.
TERRIBLE WOUNDS
County Physician Charles B. Converse
remains yesterday. He discovered that
the man had been shot three times, and
that hisTthroat had been cut. One OF the
bullets passed with his left side just
above the fifth rib; a second just below
the fifth rib. Both had been aimed at the
heart, and penetrated it. One of the
balls lodged under the shoulder blade; the
second was blown clean through the body.
The third bullet wa discharged at the
point when the neck &opes off to the shuul-
ders, and passing downward had pene-
trated the lung.
Then there was cash in the throat
one clean cut seven inches long-that had
evidently been made at single stroke by
giant arm. The knife had been plunged
deep into the sinews of the neck and had
severed both of the carotid arteries A
very remarkable feature of this terrible
wound was the fact that but little blood
had gushed from it.
EARLY THEORIES.
This absence of blood gave rise to the
theory that the body had been dropped
where it was found after it had been
robbed of life elsewhere. Gaudiano had
quarreled with his son-in-law in New
York and stabbed him because of amin
Eimacy he discovered between his child
wife and the young man. He had fed to
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den himself in the Italian quarters there
till want drove him out with his backing
box to earn a livelihood. The son-in-law
was suspected of having followed, and,
for revenge, killed him; but when
arrested established an alibi and was
released.
Then it was assumed that, as Gau-
dianos money bag had been cut, he had
been murdered by robbers.
A STARTLING THEORY.
Dr. Converse has been pretty close
student of the case and he had been in
direct communication with those who are
acquainted with all its known phases.
When / met him last evening ques-
toned him as to his theory of the manner
of the old bootblack's death.
''Either one of the four wounds found
on the body" he said, would have
caused the mans death. There is no
doubt that he was shot first, and that his
| throat was cut afterward." ("
ITO make sure of killing him?" quer-
| led.
"No, there was more than one hand in
| the murder" he replied. ''The man was
dead when the cash was made in the
| throat. That is proven by the absence of
| blood If his heart had been in action
! when the knife was used the great cut in
| the throat would have bled like an OK"
tWhy stab man after he was deadW
| was my next surprised question.
$50 that both the parties to the crime
might be equally guilty, = the doctor re-
piled: Il have no doubt that the murder
| was decreed by one OF the secret assassin
alton societies that are peculiarly an
| Italian institution. Two men may have
| been decreed to carry out its sentence OF
death. One was to use pistol the other,
a stilletto or q knife. The one who did
the shooting killed the man. Then, so
| that the other could not give him away
without exposing himself to punishment,
he was required to plunge the knife into
| the throat, even though the man was dead
| at the time"
| The doctors intimation was that the
| county authorities are working on the
assumption that the butchery was done
| in that way, and that the cutting of the
money bag found on the body was to foil
| investigation by giving color to the sup
| position that the murder was prompted
by gain; ..+o ,+,o soo+or .aaaa .tha
| robbery was q mere incident OF the
| assassination and not its motive"
THE INQUEST.
| Coroner Braekner and jury viewed
| the body yesterday, and will begin his In
quest probably on Monday evening.
Dr. Converse says that Prosecutor Win
| field directed his assistants on Tuesday to
| give the East Newark and Newark au-
| thorities all possible aid in bringing the
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