Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-20
Police Inspector McClusky Says
 Waterbury Story Is Absurd.
BUFFALO IS NOW THE PLACE.

No Foundation Whatever for Wa
 terbury Rumors-Wife of Morris
 sette Goes to New York-What Lo-
 cal Parties Think of the Story.
 New York, April 2O.-Police Inspec- tor George McClusky announced to- day that fne Identification of the body that was found in barrel last Tues day would be positively made Wlehln a few hours and that the Identification would come from Buffalo.
 sI wish to say" said the inspector, ..that all these stories stating that the < murdered man was mixed up in the 4 Waterbury, Conn, strike are absurd. 4 There is no foundation for them what < soever. The solution of the mystery A attached to the murder will come < from Buffako'
 Later the inspector said he was con- vinced that the murdered man was i Maduena Benedetto, 40 years old, or 5 1T Trenton avenue, Buffalo, N. Y- A { picture of the murdered man had been positively identified, the inspector said, by Joseph De Prima, brother ln-law of Benedetto, who is now sery- ing a term in Sing Sing prison. Despite the identification of the mur- dered man as Benedette of Buffalo, he < has been again identified as Morrisette of Taftville. The latest to identify the remains was J. w. Chambers, the mo- tOrman at Forest Park, Waterbury, where the murder of Policeman Paul A Mendelssohn took place. He declared after seeing the remains to-day that it was Morrisette of Taftville. Two other, men who worked with Morrisette said that it looked like him.
 raftviIle, April 20.-Mrs George Morrissette. whose husband, who was formerly a Ilon-union motorman i'll Waterbury, is now thought to have been the victim of the barrel m1ur- der'' In New York, left her home here this morning to go to New York where she will view the body. Mor- rissette l1as been missing from home since March "A. From pictures and descriptions of the murder victsm Mrs Mor1dssette thinks 1t was her nus-
  the description which do not agree ex- aetlv with that of Morrissette. Mrs Aforrissette was accompanied to New York by her brother, Charles Lange vie,
 Mrs Morrisette. wife of the missing man from Taftville, visited the morgue to-day and saw the body of the mur- dered man. When she first looked at the body she started violently and ex- claimed That's my husband.D On further examination, however, she de clared it was not her husband. His ears had not been pierced while the dead mans were. The peculiarities of the teeth were also unlike those of her husband.
 The victim of che barrel mystery Ill New York is said to be George Morrl- setfe. who was one of the car crew shat was assaulted on the WaterV1lie sine. and for which eight of the strlk- CTS and eleven members of the Rose dale Social club have been bound aver to the superior court. Saturday, flames J. Farley, until recently boss Of
  y,a. Morrissette's companion the night of inc assault, identified the body as that of Morrissette, but yesterday thus Identification was contradicted by Frank E. Hand of 100 Pineapple street, Brooklyn. Hand claims to nave known Morrissette very well. He says Morrissette was an organizer for the Independent Order of Forest CTS, and this order is said to be the secret society to which Morrissette is said to have belonged.
 B. A. Cockings, assistant superin- tendent for the trolley company who necessarily knew Morrissette very well, said this morning that he would not recognize him from the pictures that have been published in the New York papers.
 Yesterday the New York detective department held conversation with the local police department over the telephone relative to Morrissette and until this morning every indication showed that the murdered man was MorTissette.,
 For the past month the representa- tives of the trolley company have been searching for Morrissette. Far ley has been all over the state and New York looking for him. His home was in Taftyil1e. where his family shin lives. He was wanted here to testify against those who were arrest ed for assaulting him. but during the trials and for some time before not a trace of him could be found Farley and Merna have been in constant com munication with the local representa- lives of the trolley company since their departure from here. Morris sette left Norwich for this city on March A and that was the last seen or heard Of him.
 Dr Graves, who attended Morris sette for the injuries he received in the assault, recognized him from 2 photograph of the murdered man and said that if the latter had two broken ylbs he was surely Morrissetfe.
 FLAGMAN INJURED.
 Stonington. April 20-Fred Stone of New London q fagman on extra -1-l.