The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-03
A Sicllian in Tacoma Murders
a Friend and Countryman.
KILLED HIM WHILE HE SLEPT.
Three Boys Drowned by the Capsizing
of a Yacht at Roche Harbor.
A ferrymsn Drowned in Spokane River
More About Mrs. Dearborn, the
Adventures = Did weideman XIII
May Hunter?-stats Supreme Court.

TACOMA, March 2-fSpecial. l-ConchiIla
Siverdore, aged SO, an Italian fruit dealer
was found tonight in bed in hi, cabin cor.
ner of South Nineteenth and n street.
with his brains beaten out and three still.
etto stab-wounds directly over the heart.
The left arm was also punctured by a still
etto In seVesai places. He had been dead
since last night. Brains were shattered
over the head of the bed, and his under
shirt and drawers, in which he was
attired, were saturated with blood.
lie had evidently been butchered
while asleep, as there was no evidence of
struggle, aside from the ragged stiletto
wounds in the left arm, which indicate a
momentary swaying of the body. The
stiletto wounds over the heart were an
inch long and quarter of an inch wide.
and all three were within a radius of an
inch. A hatchet was used in beating out
Sinerdore's brains, and it is evident the
assassin struck him in the head before
driving the stiletto into his heart
A mans clinche 1 fist could be placed in
the hole in the head, and repeated blows
with the hatchet had slit the left ear and
ripped into ribbons a red and blue BAN
dana worn as nightcsp about the head.
Sharp slivers of shattered skull stuck
through the scalp and head cloth, and
with the ugly stiletto wounds In the
breast and the clotted blood and brains
besmeared over the head, face
and shoulder indicated the hor-id
Sicilian manner of assassination.
Siverdore's eyes were closed, the mouth
open, with the thin lips drawn in a
deathiy smile. The right hand was
raised to the chin, left hand resting on the
side.
Pincini and Giuseppe Morsete, Italian
fruit dealers, neighbors of the murdered
man, have been arrested. Pincini's left
hand and the sleeve of his under.hirt were
spotted with dry blood. lie had on a new
overshirt. He said:
With others. | was with Siverdore last night.
] saw him last at 8 o'clock At noon TODAY
Morsete asked about Siverdore. At O'Clock.
when he did not come / got policeman ana
entering Siverdore's house. We found him dead
and covered with blanket He was father to
Inc. | never quarreIed with him and old not
murder him. Where did that blood come frorny
Why, took up siverdores head and wanted 10
kiss him when we found him dead
Officer 0'Connor, who was with Pin
cini, says the latter did not touch the dead
man. Search is being msde for Pincinps
shirt and the Stiletto. The hatchet, coy-
cred with brains and gore. was found on
the floor by the side of the dead man. IL
is thought by the police that Pincini is the
murderer, because he owed Siyerdcre $40
and was anxious to sell his fruit stand for
SIPS and so to Sicily. where his wife and
child live, expecting to die from the Ell
fec;s Of a loathsome disease which had
kaa nd I.e
Some time ago pncini visited Health
Officer Goddard, desiring treatment. He
was told to wash himself with carbolic
acid. diluted with water. He applied the
acid without diluting it and screaming
with pain rushed through the street to the
doctors office. The acid had burned away
portions of the flesh, and Pincini, refusing
to have more flesh cut away. was told that
he must die. Then he arranged to sell his
fruit stand, and it Is said that he
has butchered Siverdore in order to wipe
out the debt, expecting TO leave for
Sicily on the proceeds of the sale of the
stand. He is aged 20 and is vicious,
bearded, low-browed brute
A couple of years ago he tried TO rape
little girl in Old Tacoma and was jailed for
a long time, finally escaping punishment
by evidence not being forthcoming. He
has been here three years. and admits
that he owed Siverdore s26, which he had
to pay in fifteen days.
Picini SAYS that he and the murdered
man are from the same town in Sicily and
were close friends. The coroner's assist
ant estimates that Siverdore was cut
thirty-two times with the stilleto and
hatchet
The stilleto with which Siverdore was
stabbed was found this morning In
corner of the murdered mans room. 1t is
six inches long, but has no marks upon 1t
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