The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-16
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was over the kidneys, The murdered
man wore dark coat, striped shirt, no
vest, and his dark trousers were kept
about his waist with a belt. Fastened
to his leg was receipt for SIS, signed
John Derosa, and $50 in money.
The Murderer and His Weapon.
Grabielie struggled hard with those
who had seized him, but Policeman
Frank Merrill, who was on hand, took
him in charge and got him along to
Rich's, where the patrol wagon met
them. A great crowd had by this time
gathered, and there was much excite
ment and interest
The weapon with which the deed was
done was formidable dagger, about six
and a half inches long and perhaps an
inch and half broad, with common
wooden handle. There did not appear
to be blood on the blade, but it was said
that the wounds the man received were
of nature to furnish internal hemor-
rhage.
The Brothers.
The two brothers were of medium
height, pallid complexion, black hair and
moustache, and not of stout build. Ora
belle appeared the stouter of the two.
He did not appear at all overcome by the
enormity of his crime, but seemed to
rather rejoice at it.
Mr.. Heffon's Story.
Mr.. Thomas Heffon was seen at the
police station, whittier he went with the
prisoner. Mr.. Heffon made the follow
ing statement: The two brothers were
fighting on the sidewalk in front of I'll. j.
Bailey & Co. s on Middle. street, and all
at once one of the men struck the other
blow that knocked him down, and
sprung upon him. The two men rolled
over each other into the street. He
(Heffon) sprang forward to separate
them. AS he did SO the man who was
uppermost struck the one underneath
three or four tremendous blows. AS
Heffon seized the mans hand, Mr.. John
Atkins seized his legs, shouting to Hef-
fon, s'Look out for the knife.' Then it
was that Mr.. Heffon saw that the man
had savage looking dirk. Being pow
erful man, Mr.. Heffon forced the knife
out of the others hand, and held him
tight, and a number of people from the
crowd that had gathered seized the fell
low so tightly that he couldn't stir. The
man who had been struck with the knife
crawled into the street a few feet further
and dropped. Mr.. Heffon says that when
the man he seized struck the other with
the knife he sung out something like '1pll
give you enough and the man struck
cried out family, 'MurderF
The Prisoners Statement.
A dense crowd gathered at the station
as the patrol wagon brought in the pris
oner. Deputy Marshal McCallum was in
charge of the station, and with the
county attorney, Mr.. Robinson, Mr.. Cas-
sassa, the interpreter, and the reporters,
interviewed the prisoner in his cell.
''Your brother is dead" were the first
words Interpreter Cassassa addressed
to him.
II am CONTENT replied the italian,
with so little sign of remorse that the
terpreter uttered an exclamation of
horror at the mans hardened condition.
The prisoner, upon being questioned
further stated that his name was Cradle
lie Derosa, and that the man with
whom he had the difficulty was his
brother Bottiste. His age he gave was
80, and that of his brother as SO. He and
his brother came from Corsenza, Italy,
about two years ago. He worked for
Shanahan, the contractor, on the Roches-
ter railroad. He had also worked part
of the time in Deering and part of the
time in the country. He gave his resi-
dence as Stafford block, Fore street. He
is unmarried. while his brother had
wife in Italy. Some time ago he lent his
brother $50, as he said he wanted to send
some money home. A few days ago he
sent to his brother to repay the money,
but he had not sent it to him. Last
night he met his brother on Middle
street, in front of III. j. Bailey & Co.'s
and demanded his money, which he
didn't get. Blows followed words.
Cause of the Trouble.
A woman, neither young nor fair,
seems to be at the bottom of the difficult
ty. Her name is Eta Coombs. The
two brothers were living together in har-
mony when Eta came and ingratiated
herself with GrabieIie. After that Bot
tiste found himself unwelcome in his
brothers home. Yesterday when Grab
ielie returned home he found that the po-
lice had seized Eta for being common
drunkard. 1t is thought that Grabielie
wanted money to pay her fine, and SO
made the demands on his brother, which
rocJi1tod II, tho ,,o1,rflarI