Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-06-05
CORRE|RO ARRESTED.
Is He the Murderer Of
Bertha Manchester?
STATEMENT BY THE MAYOR.
The Prisoner When Interrogated
Made Very Conflicting Statements.

Jose) tOffclfO, suspected Oh tne muruer OIL
Bertha May Manchester, is under arrest
in the central police station, charged with
homicide.
That he really committed the murder
there appears To be little reason to doubt
from the developments made In the in
vestigation which ended lately. Correiro
gave himself up to the police Saturday
evening. He preferred to do this to free
himself from suspicion rather than to be
brought in by the police.
The police had received information that
located him at Bowenville at o a m. on
the dav of the murder. Farmer Man.
chester had seen him at Crab pond bridge
two hours later. Saturday his uncle,
Jacinto Muniz, and Frank Silvia were
sent to Taunton, where he had been To-
Gated, and were told to bring him to Fall
River
They returned the much wanted man at
$40 p. m. and from that hour until after
midnight
He Was On the Rack.
At first his story was good one, but one
little break was made; then came a change
contradiction and falsehood followed
and he was ordered under arrest. When
Jacinto MuAiz brought back his nephew,
Joseph Correiro, according to promise, the
cloud of suspicion that had hung over the
latter since Wednesday seemed about dis
persed. 1t was In this spirit that the Off
GERS started, through an interpreter, TO
question Corriero, but that idea quickly
changed as the Portuguese fatty denied
certain suspicious circumstances which
were known 10 be facts.
In relation to others he made false state
ments He was questioned very carefully
and fairly. After the long hours of wait
ing and questioning were over and he had
become entangled be was locked up.
After the investigation was closed the
mayor and officers Of the department de-
cided that the
Public Had Right to the Facts
In the possession Of the police so far as
they could safely he given.
As result of this decision representa-
tives of the papers who were still here
were notified to go to the marshal's private
office at $50 p m. yesterday, to hear the
statement that the marshal desired to
make known through the press. At that
hour there were present at the marshal's
Office, Mayor Coughlin, Marshal Hilliard,
Inspector Mahoney, seven local newspaper
men and one Boston man. Assistant
Marshal Fleet came in before the state
ment was ended.
At the request of Marshal Hilliard,
Mayor Coughlin made the statement.
Names, as rule, were suppressed through
a desire to avoid further trouble. In ex-
PLANTATION of this course, Mayor Coughlin
said that something had happened earlier
In the day which led the authorities to
believe trouble was to be made il possible
for those who had assisted the govern
ment
The Portuguese in this city would
naturally bold together In the matter and
exhibit feeling against those OF their race
whe had assisted in throwing suspicion
upon Correiro.
Mayor Coughlin, after speaking of the
decision of the authorities to make the
facts in the case known, said:
1--WE wanted the facts to be given to the
public rs they are. Gentlemen, we want
you to understand
This Is mo Fake.'
Our purpose is to impress upon the minds
of the public that we have In our possess
sion certain tangible clues, pointing to the
guilty person. The police have taken a
very decided stand in looking for Corriero.
'They have looked for him in every pos
sible locality since the day when he entered
French Canadian shoe dealers store
near the south end of Sycamore mill, and
asked in broken English for a pair of
shoes, when he pulled out of his pocket
silver trade dollar, bright and apparently
brand new. He also pulled out from his
pocket a silver half dollar with hole I'm II.
The shoe dealer said that trade dollars
were worth only between 90 and 95 cents.
He also refused to take the half dollar be-
cause it had hole 1t 1t. Correiro then
pulled out from his pocket two quarter
dollars and offered them in place of the
half dollar There was present young
Portuguese from farm across the river,
who acted as interpreter In the converse
tion about the trade dollar. Correiro said:
Il ii give you five cents more; II you don't
take that you'll have to break big bill
''The shoe dealer took it, wrapped up
the old shoes and Corriero wore the shoes
out of the store. He had them on when
he came TO the central station. Captain
Connor and Doherty learned that Mr.. Man
chester had given silver trade dollars TO
Bertha and Jennie Mrs Coolidge).
Bertha's trade dollar was kept In her
bureau drawer, and in the drawer with It,
the officers learned, there was also kept
half-dollar, with n hole in 1t. The trade
dollar was in the best state Of preserva-
tion and had the appearance of having
Always Been "a Keepsske.
"Correiro denied he had ever offered q
u yer dollar with a hole in IL to n shoe
dealer or that he had any Conversation
with the shoe dealer in relation to the
value OF a trade dollar The trade dollar
has been shown Mrs. Coolidge, and she Is
almost positive from its fine state of pre-
servation that IL is the same coin her
father gave Bertha.
To-day the marshal has had two farm
srs before him. IL is understood their
statements were practically similar. One
man will give his statement. He described
a man and said: Il was walking In the
field with Frenchman off Wilson road,
between the new Boston road and North
| Main street, doing some work, Tuesday
morning between . and 10 o'clock. A
number Of people went by on bicycles,
| then the Frenchman looked mp and said:
Here comes q man on the run" looked
up and said: THAT looks like q Portu-
guese."'