The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-06
A QUEER CASE

sauntgred about aimlessly, looking 0l other saunlersrs and pumng cigar while night was giving place to twi. light Noticing a crowd collected neal one of the little thiekets with which tho park abounds ] went to see what at. tracted it Pushing my way forward ! saw a young woman lying on her back, pale and rigid. She had Just been discovered in the thickeb dead. She had been murdered.
 The moment looked at her it seemed uat l had seen her before Indeed, tue face was quite familiar Nevertheless l could not connect her features with those of any human be- ing l had ever known.
 had been travelling in Europe short ly before this, and had left my family in Florence, Italy. One day l received from my daughter one Of the pictorial postal cards so much used abroad, and what was my astonishment to see on it the picture Of the girl who had been murdered. For awhile was more puzzled than ever, but suddenly 1t oc cured to me that it was the picture on the postal card that had seen be fore, and not the girl herself. While in Florence l had written several mes sages on these cards.
 ] expected to go oyer soon to bring my family home. l therefore went to the superintendent of police and told him of the matter, offering to invesu- gate 1t when in Italy. He ayailed him self of my services, informing me, by the way, that he had no clew to the murderer, since the woman had only been in New York a short time and no one in this country seemed to have any motive for killing her.
 As soon as reached Florence went to the place where the postal card was made and after a good deal of invesu- eation was informed that the picture was that of a young Italian girl who had been selected from a number of competitors to sit as a model for pie ture to adorn the card. That is all the information ] got from the card manu- facturers, but the police soon found out for me that tine girl was Liza Maroni, or SignOra AndrianO, she having mar ried Andriano soon after having her picture placed on the postal card. lt was reported that her husband had treated her badly and she had left him. This was as far as the Italian police investigations carried the case Signora Andriano was not in Florence, but as to where she was there was no informa- ton. Andriano also had left the city some time after the departure Of his wife, and his whereabouts were not known. The most valuable thing cb tained in this connection was a pbot'r graph of Andriauo which was found in the possession of one of bis friends tc whom the police went for Information. The photograph was given to me for the chief of police in New York.
 When l returned to America l called on the superintendent gaye him what information had collected and tle photograph. He thanked me, remark ing at the same time, IT the man is in America we shall find him."
 He had a number of copies made of the photograph which he gave to per sons who were instructed to look among the Italians in New York. He also sent the copies to the superIn- tendents Of police in different cities. Six months later the superintendent of police in Philadelphia wrote that one of fNhis agents had discovered a man whose face was identical with the pho tograph. but the name was not the same.
 The case progressed no further for a long while The man was watched but no suspicious circumstances no- uced. He was dealer in Italian table oils and wine and of good standing among the Italian colony of the Quaker City. He had been recently married, and by getting the date 1t was found that the wedding took place three weeks after the murder of the woman whose picture graced the postal card The police instructed the letter carrier who brought the suspected man his letters to watch for nail sent to him under another name than the one he bore. For nearly year no suspicious letter came, when at last the postman reported one addressed to the street and number bearing the name of An drlano. The letter was opened and found to be from mother to her son.
 The police now considered that they were well on the track of the murderer. They waited awhile for more points, then concluded to arrest the man. They were too late. The bird had flown. He and his wife had locked up their house and gone away in the night
 One morning. taking up my newspa- per. I read thpt Philippe Yertucl. an Italian, had died the previous day and on bis deathbed confessed that he had killed a woman who had been some time before found murdered in Cen. tral park. She had left Italy with him, leaving a husband there, and bad lived with him in New Orleans as bis wife There she had left him, and he had come to New York to induce her to join him again. During an altercaton in a retired spot in the park he had stabbed her.
 Soon after this the man, who had disappeared in Philadelphia, returned to his place of business. The .explana- ton the police got from him was thls: He admitted shat he was Andriano His former wife having gone away se cretly with another man. he followed