The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-05
LATER DEVELOPMENTS.
An Italian Boy Testtnes 10 seehs ~
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Points TO HIS
S,orv-SNhat the Mother Believes.

Tuesday Joe Moreno. a lo-year old
Italian boy, employed by his father,
netty coal and ice dealer, was taken by
The nolice because of stories he had
told neighbors of knowing about the
crime He had told that Saturday
noon a little girl came into the store
and ordered 10 pounds of ice to he tie,
liyered at 3l5 East 35th street, as the
order was given TO him, and evidently
if WAS n mistake as he took the ice 10
that address. called at several ten
ements and found no one ID or VINO
had ordered any ice. On reaching the
foo. of the stairs he heard a silght
noise in the rear Of the Cunningham
fiat and as that was about the only
apartment in The building he hadn !
hecn in. he made up his mind to make
last effort to find the people who or
dered the ice. So he went down the
hall to the kitchen door, which was
not locked, opened it aud poked ms
head in.
Joe saws that just back of the door
was the girl. Mary. on her knees, her
clotb;np torn and disordered, tears
streaming down her face, her hair dis
heyelled and her eyes staring. \ man
was leaning over her, tying ana khot
ting A piece of cloth about her heck
The boy was so terrified that ne
started back and. as he did so, the
man turned and jumped for him'
exclaiming savagely
What in the hell Ito you want
here !" -, :.
The girl who was half choked al
that time, found her breath long
enough to cry Murder y
Joe ran through the hal! ana out inc
front door. dropping his ice on the
door mat. He fell headlong down the
flight of stone steps and got bloody
nose when he came in contact win
the sidewalk. He ran AS far as Sec
ond avenue and then he turned his
head. He was not pursued.
Seeing this, he halted, then walked
| back cautiously towards the house.
All was quiet. His lump of ice lay
on the door mat. He picked it up
and carried it back to the basement
shop. which is less than half a block
away. He told his father about it.but
the latter laughed and paid no attcn
! tion TO the matter. But he told 9th
ers who Informed the police. After
the arrest. according to Inspector
BROOKS. the boy was taken to the York
| Vile police court prison. There we
marched him past all the cells, letting
| him take a look in each, and asking
him If he saw the man he had seen IN
the Cunningham fiat on Saturday any
whore. He looked at Mccormack care
fully and then said that he thought he
was the man. Warden Lynch then
brought Mccormack out in the CORR
| dor. so that he could get better look
at him. As so1n as the lad saw him
! in the light he exclaimed
| 'sThat's the man! that's the man.
He's the fellow | saw tying the hand
kerchief around the girls throat Nc
Cormacls gave a gasp andswent Lack to
| his cell. where he fell back on the
bench and covered his face with his
hands. He has proclaimed his inno-
cence from the start, but has been
nervous and apparently on the verge OF
collapse.
After this positive Identification,
| continues Brooks, I'VE took the boy
over TO East 9th street to see II he
could remember the house where he
had been to deliver the ice. lie Gldn
remember the address and twice de
liberately walked past the house. Each
time, though. he stopped me short IN
front of % and said that was the
house.
There was a hearing before City
Magistrate Crane Wednesday, Farrell
was discharged. as there was no cv-
idence against him and the court was
satisfied with his alibi. Moreno told
his story against Mccormack as stated
above. but on cross examination admit
ted that he saw the policeman taxing
Mccormack to the station house sat
urdav and when asked why he dldn
tell his story then said II was AFRAID
| ALWAYS mind my own business. | was
afraid I'd be arrested" lie also SAID ne
saw the prisoner tie three separate
bandanes--one about the girls eyes,
another about her mouth and third
about her neck.
The police have the utmost
faith in this story and think they VIII
get it corroborated by the man and
woman he saws saw MIN fall from the
stems and some of those he spoke TO
i'm searching for the ice customer Dr
TYLER corroborates him about team
he saws he saw passing. On the other
hand his story is So complete as 10 be
suspicious He described the location
of the windows. the tables, chairs and
everything else in the room perfectly.
This has even raised suspicious IN
some quarters ih8' No was the assall-
an, himself His identification of Nc
Cormack signifies little. after seeing