The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-24
CLOSE ON NONzIO'S HEELS
Dora AXIS Assailant Seen in a Balti-
more Saloon.
Recognized ny Compatriots His
Wife Leaves the City for New
York-Police Officials Silent.

| The fac. was established this morning,
by the police that Bnrredine Di Nmzio, the
Italian, vino is wanted on a charge Of
assaulting eight-year-old Dora AK was In
Baltimore yesterday. The man was seen
! i'm a saloon with d companion, who is ais O
hiding from the Washington police, and
tire local officers got ST. near Ia the chase e
as to catch sight OF hi Nunzio's friend,
persons claim TO have seen ID Nunzso
in the Monumental City yesterday, but
they We're not policemen.
The officials say they are certain their
man is i'll baltimore, and that he has been
there for the past few days. They dis,
credit the stor that he has been in H yattsl
vile, and are OF the opinion that the man
went directly from this city To Baltimore.
This morning Policemen Harrics and Will
inghaui, who were sent u Baltimore yes.
terday. returned 20 duty. They heard OF
hi Nunzio in. several places, and found a
s.iloou where he had spent several hours
last night. with the man was Antonio
Fix atti, alias TONY Bell, for whom there
is variant in the hands of the local po'
lice, charging him with running speak
easy" The two men entered the saloon
of Giovanni Blanca. at the corner OF Presi
dent street anc Eastern avenue, Balti-
more, early yesterday evening, and spent
several hours drinking.
Blanca told the police that he could
easily remember Di NunZio because he wa $
much fairer than most Italians. His
lescripti,n OF the man closely followed
that given out TO the police, and they are
Confident that they were close on his trail.
Officers Harries aud willingham were a
Blanca place a an early hour this morn
ing, and il had been several hours since
Di NunZio had left. From this place all
trace of the man seems to have been lost.
If the police have any additional informa
ton they have carefully kept il to them
selves
AT the detective bureau at police head.
quarters nothing is known In regard
to the case. 1t is evident that the officials
10 not THU L the clew developed in Balti
rore of sufficient importance to warrant
sending . detective TO the city. Outward
Indications appear TO point TO lack OF
activity in the case. What is going on be-
low the surface, however, is know n only
e. the officials and they have suddenly de
yelopcd a clam like silence, which is i'm
penetrahe beyond the nothing new"
point.
The officers who went to Baltimore
yesterday did so, il is said, at their own
expense. Had they possessed sufficient
funds 10 remain In the city a few hours
longer, IL lis probable they would have
had a different story u tell. AT the point
where they were obliged to leave the
investigation because OF lackof money, they
were only a lew hours behind their man,
and had secured more definite information
concerning his movements than has be-
com. public since the crime was brought
to light.
This T. orning Mrs NunZio left on the 10
O'Clock train over the Pennsylvania Rail
road for New York. Her destination is
said 20 ne New Haven, Conn.,, where, ii is
said, her parents reside. The woman in.
formed the police last night that she In
tended to leave the city this morning,
and no objection was made to her going
away. She was followed from her home
TO the station by an officer of the Eighth
precinct, who, after scertaining that
she purchased a ticket for New York,
returned to police headquarters and re-
ported to Inspector Mattingly.
Ii was said this morning at police head
quarters that Mrs. NunZio had two tickets
liz he- possession when she boarded the
train this morning. One was the ticket
which she bought openly in the station.
The other was purchased late last night
hy an Italian and is good To d small
town in New Jersey not far from Phill
Ielnhia.
NUnsio. il is claimed, viii leave Balti-
more early in the morning and join his
wife in thu Quaker City, from where they
will g. into the wilds OF New Jersey. Up
to late houi this afternoon Inspector
Mattingly had heard nothing from Nunzio.