The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-01
100 FRONT STREET

had lived in Worcester with her hus-
oand. Buzzo was employed by Wyman
q Gordon of Worcester, manufacturers
of drop forgings.
Mr. Taft also related the facts re-
garding certain letters received by Mr..
Barton, which the state would attempt
70 prove were sent by the defendants.
Ihese were the letters sent July % and
July 20, respectively, and mailed with
special delivery stamps. This" said
Mr.. Taft, was very evidently not the
act of shrewd and cunning persons, but
was plainly the act of persons who
were inexperienced
But 1t is strange how many times
exactly such threats have been made.
The injury Is in the alarm and fright
they cause, and that these threats must
have caused-if not to Mr.. Barton. to
his wife and children.
1T might be said that a person was
fool to do such a thing as this, to
walk as it might seem right into a
trap. But it cannot be doubted that
such threats may have been many
times effective"
Mr. Taft continued to state the facts
the commonwealth expected to prove,
which briefly are, that Buzzo and Mrs.
Fisher came into the neighborhood Of
Elm Park, at Highland and Agricul-
tural Streets at 9.15 o'clock on the night
OF July 20, and stayed until 1115 That
Mrs. Fisher went under a pine tree,
where lay concealed officers Power and
Jackson, that she walked around the
tree and afterward rejoined Buzzo.
That officer Power arrested Buzzo, but
that during the struggle the woman es-
capped That Barton also saw a man
and woman in the neighborhood, but
could not identify them and that Bar
ton deposited a bundle under one of
the pine trees but not actually under
the tree where the officers were. Mr..
Barton's recollection now was that he
dropped the bundle under a smaller
tree where it was subsequently found.
But the officers would say that they
thought Barton actually left the bun
die under the large tree
The state would also attempt to show
that officers visited the house of Mrs.
Buzzo and took from her writing desk,
paper of appearance, size, style and
Watermark even--as that upon which
the threats were written. Some speci-
mems of handwriting of the woman
were found which the state would ex-
hibit to the jury for comparison, al
though expert testimony regarding the
specimens might not be offered
The letters containing the threats
and offered as evidence were as fol-
lows:
wear the (lIY.
'Mr. Barton: I have been in the CITY
now for some time and have Just found
out some facts 1 know now. I know
that you are worth your millions and I
want you to give me $4,000. I know that
you will never miss it. You will never
know that it was gone, and you don't
want trouble, for you will certainly
get 1t, and right away at that, if you
don't do as l ask you.
of money know and if my business
proves all right I will some day pay
it back to you in full.
You love your children, don't YOU
and you would not care to see your
place of business go up, nor your lovely
home, but I am desperately in earnest
now and must have. 1 will give you
the rest of today and tomorrow to
think of it in I should advise you not
to put this letter in any policemans
way, nor detective either, for if you
do the worst will be your own. for you
won't be safe then; but put the money
where L tell you and no harm will
come to you, for it is not as though
it was $4,000, but just the small sum
| ask you for, and you will never be
troubled after this; and put it there
yourself and let no one know about
1T, for if you do just as l asked you to
do you will get it back one day, so it
isn't like losing 1t. Remember, I should
like it this week, and if you do just
| as say it will be all right; but what
l tell you is true, so be careful how
you work all by yourself.
Put the money in a package and
| do 1t up in q piece of newspaper and
| put it over by Newton Hill on the
stone steps that lead up the hill.
Leave 1t on the sixth step from the
| bottom. I shall wait until your car
| riage drives away with you in it be-
| fore 1 pick it up Be sure and keep
! this to yourself, as all 1 ask is the
loan of it for long time.
Yours respectfully.
IN. c. NJ"
This letter was mailed July %. The
| second letter was mailed July % and
was as follows:
Il arrived in town this morning.
Remember, it is only a loan that I
ask you for, but 1 don't care for you
to put it on the steps, but put it under
the pine tree. the first one that you
come to, counting from Highland Street
on Agricultural Street, and 1 will be
on Highland Street watching for you.
You shall have 1t all back in a very
short time. Remember, at $50 to-
night NJ. c. NJ"
! Charles F. Barton was the first wit
ness called by the commonwealth,
Mr.. Barton said he was A years old,
resident at S57 Main Street; that he
was a manufacturer of paper ma
chinery and president and treasurer of
| the Rice, Barton & Fales Company,
and that his family consisted of wife
and three children.
| He described the receipt of the letters
referred to by Mr.. Taft in his opening
speech. He gave the first letter to
Chief Stone next day after he received
it. which was Monday. Received the
second letter Thursday. On the same
evening he went to the place designated
in the second letter. Hitched his horse
on Highland Street and walked back
to corner of Highland and Agricultural
Streets. Had a package of blottins
paper done up in a bundle. The bundle
was marked for Identification.
On Agricultural Street he saw man
and a woman on a settee. He saw a