The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

n The police have learned one thing
In regard to Calderone and that is
that he has bad record, He IS known
To have been compelled to leave WIN
his friends say that he cannot return
there, even to visit his brother, as ne
would be arrested upon his nrSL ap-
r5earance. He is also said to nave
beet, exiled from Chicago by the Po-
lice and cannot return there. w heLnef
he has beer in trouble in other clues
IL not known.
W Carmine Ruberto, proprietor OF the
"Rucket of Blood saloon in st. Paul.
told q j o u T n a reporter To-Day tnal
he had known Calderone TOR seVeral
Years and that the fugitive WORKED ON
a railroad gang under him when ne
was YET a boy. lie could SiVe tiAe
man no good word. :,
q 81 know Calderone for many years
said Ruberto with peculiar snake OF
the head He work for me in Canada
Wherl he boy. / give him man wages
End help him. He be bad man. He
no look like fighter, but he be .
- ----. He have lots OF trout
Ele. If he come to me now When
Know he wanted for Kill man, give
him to police. | no care he be my
pwn father
Il Others who know Calderone speak
of him in the same manner and many
enEhaSlHe the TACT tnaC he Is ol
treacherous disposition.
Couldn't Identify Him.
f. Battalia's uncle and man named
PHI, who was in partnership WITH
Battalia, were taken to police head
quarters this morning and while they
were there A. D. Soucie, the conductor
who took the three Italians to Frank
lin avenue, on the Minnehaha car,
came and tried to identify the uncle
as the third man he saw on the car
that night He said he could not re-
member the features of the man DIS
tinctly. and couldn not say that, the
uncle was the man. He,% however,
said that he resembled the man he
saw on the car.
!! Other Italians who lived with and
near Battalia Wer brought in, but none
of them could be identified as the mid
dle-aged man who accompanied him
en- his ride to the bridge.
r The whereabouts of Tony Costa has
caused some worry and this morning
it was reported that he had dlsap-
peared. The police, however, say that
Costa Is at his place Of business, and
in case he Is needed ne can be brought
TO headquarters at moments notice.
Tn fact none Of the Italians who can
r3ossibly be of any service can leave
the city without the police knowing OF
X.
3. One Of the men who was examined
fin police headquarters this morning
said he would notify the police lrnme-
iiiately if the man should send TOR II
aFhe statement that Calderone was
hard pressed for Is false. Caloero !,
always had money, the man SAID ne
Gould not possibly have had any recen1
trouble with Battalia on that account
Another Blood Trail.
Detectives HELM and Hanson this
morning discovered another blood tra1
evidently coming from. the dtrectlof
of the Franklin avenue bridge. 1t ;eN
tended along Il Eighteenth street TO
ward the center of the city. II IS {
plain trail and the officers are work
ing on it now. -
Calderone with Battalia.
Alvia D. Souci. conductor on tn
Minnehaha car line, residing at bo'
Fourth avenue NE, has identified Sal
vatore Battallia and the suspect Cal
sacrone as two of the men who rod
with him early in the evening and go
off the car at Franklin and Twenty
seventh. avenues S. He identlfie!
Battalia at the county morgue earl.
this morning and is sure that Calder
one is the man who paid the fares TO
the three. His recollection Of Gal
she was the largest and. best dfessed
!. THE three men" says Souc!
s.boarded the car at First avenue
and Washington and sat on the sid
seats. They seemed in a hurry to ge
the car and were lodging in and gu
among several teams that were pass
Ding at the time. They sat on the sid
seats all the way out and seemed yer
much interested in their conversation
When they 7alighted from the car the
went Immediately toward the bridge.
f AS tMo of the men have been iden
tilted beyond a reasonable doubt tn
rems lining question Is who was tn
third man.
The tsThird Man" Described.
souci says that the man accompany
ing Battalia and Calderone was :
much older man possibly 45 yeal
old. He wore a long black ulster an
worn by the peddlers. His mustacf
was noticeably longer than Battalia
and slightly streaked with grey.
The car on which the three me
rode reached Franklin avenue at 9:1
and walking at an ordinary gait
would take q little over ten minute
to arrive at the end of the bridge. Th
murderers must have begun the
work Immediately and the time we
not latter than 9:35. 1t was at fir
supposed that the crime had bee
committed an hour later.
1t was learned last night that SON
of the arc lights were in poor Worl
ing order Wednesday evening and me
who accompanied the patrol wagon
the scene of the murder say positive
that neither the arc light nor the ga
olene lamp were burning at the we
end Of the bridge when they arrive
there.
Battalia Feared Him.
Mrs. Andrew Grumpy, $500 Lal
street, wife Of Detective Grumpy, w
acquainted with both the murder
man and Calderone and says that Ba
ITALIA told her several months ago tn
Calderone was mad at him. ]
added that Calderone was
bad man and had treacherous d
position. and that he was afraid
him.
Battalia had told her that If Cald
rome was selling vegetables there
would not be safe for him to attern
to sell there, too. He said that Cs
derone was jealous Of him.
Tracing the Knife.
A report that the knife found ne
the scene of the murder had be
bought within the past week in a (
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