Bridgeton pioneer., 1896-12-17

by someone noticed head over to the
southwest corner of the building, and
soon men were at work on the floor
above, cutting it through. The scene was
wild one. The maniacs down stairs
were shouting louder than the men up
stairs, who had to cut good portion of
the floor away before they were located
in narrow sweet potato bin, or the space
between the bin and the wall. Here
they stayed and refused to come out des-
pite the fact that the officers and others
were calling ON them to do so.
Every other man had revolver and
was sticking the same into the
aperture, threatening to shoot. By and
by the youngest Of the trio was grappled
with and hauled to the surface. Then
the next Tony, the man who did the kill
ing and lastly Louis, the one who was
jailed with the youngest brother some
time ago. Tony was not arrested at that
time and was considered the sanest of the
lot. He did the business down town for
the family. The mother appeared from
some dark corner, also and soon the
whole family were on the road to the
lookup. Tony screamed at the top of
his voice almost all the way down. Mr.
| Cosman said the old man had only been
home short time, having been away
some weeks.
| The prisoners were filthy, and one of
Louis feet was terribly lacerated, some
said by frost and some said it was done
during the storming of the Jorio castle.
Men among the spectators seemed to be
almost crazy, and wanted to abuse the
prisoners, but were stopped by the off
GERS"
Scene of the Crime.
The reporter with County Physician
Thompson and Coroner Halsey drove out
to the scene. 1t was about two and half
miles from the town, and was a typi-
cal portion of the suburbs. There
were but two or three houses near
by, and the Jorio house was the least pre-
tentious of them all. In fact it was
barn like structure, thrown up by the
Jorio family themselves. There was no
point upon the house, and no fence about
the place. Near the house there were
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by was an apology for barn, in which
was kept an old horse. A COW was also
in this out building. On the East side of
the house was barrel in which lived
small brown hound dog.
The spot where the old man died was
some sixty feet from the house nearest
the road. 1t was marked by great pool
of blood.
Before the reporter arrived, the body
had been removed to the house, where it
lay upon the floor, covered over with a
piece of carpet.
The Body.
The old man must have been sixty
years of age, a heavy set raw bone fellow.
He was but thinly clad and his face was
clean shaven. A portion of his under
teeth were out. The face was smeared
with blood and both eyes were closed,
the left one being horribly swollen and
blackened from the clubbing. The most
horrible of the wounds were upon the
back of the head. This had been done
with the clubbing and the skull had been
broken in many pieces, in fact, beaten to
ajelly. When County Physician Thomp-
son made his superficial examination and
turned the body over, at least a quart of
blood poured out of the head upon the
floor, forming big pool. The coat was
perfectly saturated with the poor fellows
life blood. The hands were clinched and
the face presented a look of awful horror
The Room.
How can the room be described? Just
a big barn-like place, the open cracks adj
mittlng the cold air from every quarter.
Everything was a confused, filthy mass,
and really it seemed much more like a
hog pen than the abode of human beings.
There were two old bedsteads, with but
little bed clothing, and large new iron
range. There had not been fire in it for
some time. There were boxes, barrels,
wood and a lot of trash scattered about,
and here the people lived. One small
window admitted the daylight, while at
night there was no illumination. There
was an old lantern upon the floor, but it
had not been filled for long time and
there was no wick in the burner. There
were no provisions about the house, ex-
cepting sweet potatoes, there being sew
eral barrels of them in the hole in the
| ground underneath the building.
| Here the wretches eked out their exist
ence, allowing no one to come to the
house or on the premises.
An Eye Witness.
William Camp and wife, who live
nearly opposite the scene of the crime,
will probably tell the most complete story
of the tragedy. They were witnesses
to pretty much the whole affair To the
reporter Mr.. Camp said that just before
noon he came home from Vineland and
passed the old man Jorio upon the road.
He offered to give the old fellow ride,
but he declined. When Camp arrived
home he noticed the old Italian crossing
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