The sun., 1901-04-23
BURIED THE BABY ALIVE,
WOMAN KEPT WiTCH WHILE THE NAV
DtG THE GRaTE.


by Public works Foreman who Heard Its
Cries-CoupIc. Both Italians. Caught.
An Italan. who said he was Givrio BUT
taccavallo. living on the lower East SIDE Of
the city. and pale-faced girl Of n. who
refused 10 say anything about herself. were
committed to the Westchr-ter county jail
at White Plains last night on n charge OF
burying live child beneath three feet OF
earth at the foot of ravine bordering
the village Of Hastings-on-the-H Hudson. A
contractors foreman. who dug the child
from the grave and saved its life. caused
the arrest of tho couple The child may die.
Buttaccavallo and his companion were
arrested on their way from Hastings to
yonkers The arrest was made on a War
burton avenue trolley car.
Warburton avenue is the road that con
meets ionkers with Hastings-on-the-Iiud-
son. 1t il about FIVE miles in length and
extends through a hilly country where there
are but few houses The road crosses a
ravine near the Hastings village line. A
brook known as Rowley'S Brook flows through
the ravine II was on the bank Of this brook
that the child WAS buried
Patrick McAvOy. foreman over gang
of laborer,. was AT work building A rail-
-
quarter Of a mile from Rowley's bridge whica
spans the brook AT Marburton avenue Tn,
men quit work at 1880 O'Clock yesterday.
McAvoy walked toward warburton ave.
nue. to 90 10 lunch at hi home in Hastings
lie passed through the ravine along the bank
OF the brook
About three hundred feet ahead Of him
he saw man and woman kneelng on the
l. .lta.
In the ground As McANoy approa ached
the woman bee koned to her companion as
IL TO tell him to hurry with the work he va
doing The man glanced ~ and seenl
McAvoy approach hurrledy filed In tho ho"
nr had dug Iucu ~ the WoWa" started g.
rln toward the trolley road The man ooped
and picked up q bush which he paced g..
the newly-turued earth lie ua-le.,u al ,er
the woman and they crossed v haTburton
avenue and disappeared IN n ravine on tho
other side Of N" trolley tracks
McAvoy hurried after them He saw tho
man put a hatchrt under hiS coat and he
believed that the stranger had used " 70
bury or t. dls up trea sure When McAvoy
avenue the man and wo nan were not In sight
Then he hurried back 70 the spot where he
had seen the man iiyglng
A., hc approached, McAv3y says he he
ing aside tho bush, began = dig M the eartl
| three fcet of earth he found a bundle Of white
| cothing. inside Of which wa, a boy baby
about weeks old and apparently IN good
| health The child had z Cd lungs and made
| usc of them II had been -ayei from suffo-
| cation by having Il face covered with small
| cane
! Warhurton avenue end honrded nollev
car going toward lInStiug> lie told tEs
| conductor and m3'orman ail about hii hnd.
| The conductor william Walsh, sara ne re-
| mombered an Italian couple who h1d been
| pa a~senger1 on a previous Trip lie sIld me
| couple had got on hi' car A. lonkrrs cnn
| ler' il al Rowlcy's Bridge He thought !,
| strange ~ the time for a woman TO eet OF
| the car AT this point for most Of his passenger
rode al the way 10 the village.
! the child over 10 the first woman he met,
| This woman was Mrs Barbara Bauer, the
| ian'trc-s Of the village school. McAvoy
| police and reported the case lie described
| the man and woman whom b" had seen bury
| ing the child and the village police tee-
| phoned the description 10 the police OF ion-
conductor Walsh started on his trip back
| 70 Nonkcrs About 70 nile and h3t, ON
| Of Hastings a man and woman ~ienolled the
| mn'ormnn 10 stop When Walsh saw the
| couule he made ~ his mind that they were
the ones who had buried I Q baby ana told
| the motoruan TO call tho fr-t, policeman
they met when Tonkors wa ro"ch1d.
| sAt that city the motorman shouted n
| policeman Archer and he put the couple
The man said in good English that he
| understood nothing but Italian he de-
c!sred that he knew o.f no reason Why NJ
sHI'p ssid pno,hing Roth were taken TO police
headquarters and, questloned by Justice
| Of the Peace Kellogg They shook thelr
| heads as If in ignorance of what he was ask
| Ming Then he got an Italian interpreter
| and again questioned them
| The man said he WIS Givrio Buttaccayallo.
a. wears Old. liyincon First street, Eew York
.l | I.t Irsf "a SECOND
| not tell the number of his house He said
| the Young woman Wa his niece, and that she
| was ls years old The girl said she was
francesca Spinella she said that her com;
| panion was married man and the father ol
-Four children When asked about the buried
child she declared thst she was not married
snd that she had never borne a child She
addei that she knew nothing about the chilc
that had been dug M. When the man Wa'
searched a small Ratchet was found on him
Newly dug clay was Clingng 10 1t. IL was
hatchet such as lathersuse
| Tho Hastings officials were notified of the
arrest and MGAy9y ne nan %n9 b9 dsn,tnsS ds6 ass
| the couple az the man and woman VINO hac
buried the baby
| They were. taken 70 Hastings and there ar
ragned before Police Justice Tompkins
| McAvoy swOre 20 a complaint charging then
with attempting 20 XIII the child
We have nothing 90 say to the charge
| was the answer made by the man Tit
railroad employees testified that tho woman
had a bundle going toward Hastings and wa
empty-handod on the return tTlp. both con
duCtor and motorman said that the bundle
| moved They believed at the time that D
| contained a live cat or dog
| The policeman who made the arrest saic
that he had found In the mans spocket care
| on which was written "l80 orchard street
Justice Tompkns then said he would holc
| the couple for the Grand Jury
| The houss at 100 Orchard street Is the hom'
| Of the Spnella girl who lives there with hel
mother and two brothers. She left HON.
! Yesterday morning az o'clock She Ia mol
| niarrled and has had no children, accord,
| ing TO her family one OF her brothers sald
| that Buttaucavnllo Il a married man with
three children and that ono OF the children
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