The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-14
MURDERER ARRESTED.
ITALIAN CAPTURED AT RARM IN
 MOUNT CARMEL.

After a hunt which lasted all night and which was participated in by the entire police and detective departments as well as number of italians, Fran cesco SantanielIo, the Italian who mur- dered Antonio Longobardi on Union street early Wednesday. evening. was captured in a remote farm house in Mount Carmel by Detectives Dennehy and Colwell, shortly after 5 o'clock yes- terday morning. In a statement made to the coroner Santaniello acknowl- edges doing the stabbing but claims that it was done in self-defense.
 About 10 o'clock Wednesday night Officer Eagan went to the hospital to have a talk with Longobardi in the hope of getting some information con- corning his assailant. Longobardi told Officer Eagan that SantaneilIo had done the stabbing, but for what reason he did not know.
 He said that he was walking along Union street with his brother and Vim cenzo Cosocuso when Santaneillo sud- denly sprung upon him and stabbed him with knife. Santaniello then ran away and his two companions were trying to help him home when he fell | by the roadside. This is the only state- ment which the authorities have got from Longobardi, as he died without being questioned by anyone other than Officer Eagan.
 The coroner on receiving word of Longobardi's death hurried to police headquarters where he found the en- tire staff of detectives awaiting him.
 Some Of the detectives were sent im- mediatly to get the murdered mans two brothers, Nieolo and Cantillo Lon gobardi. and also Vincenzo Cosocuso, who lives at Myrtle street, Nicolo and ! yincenzo having been with the murder ed man when he was stabbed and whom the detectives had learned were the two men who were trying to help him home.
 Coroner Mix told the officers not to let these men know, that Longobardi was dead or give them any information until he examined them. He then sent word to Frank Ruotolo, who is em- ployed by S. D. Woodruff & Sons, the Orange seed dealers, to come to head- quarters to act as an interpreter Ruo- tolo knows most oe the Italians in this city and it was partially through his assistance that the man was finally captured.
 On the arrival os the three Italians sent for, Coroner Mix started in to ex- anime them. They all stated first that they know nothing about the affair." Finally after examining the men for some time without any success Coro- ner Mix examined Nicolo alone Nicolo said he knew nothing about the affair. Finally Coroner Mix said: sNicolo, if you knew that your broth CT was dead that he was murdered, wouldn't you want the man who killed ! him punished?" This question seemed 1 to shock the prisoner, and it was a moment before he could speak. He then answered that if his brother had been killed he would want the man who killed him punished. The coroner then told him the truth, and the man broke completely down and told his ex- anliner that he would tell him all. He said that while he was going home with l his brother Santaniello stabbed his brother. Asked where Santinello had escaped to he replied that he did not know, but that he might be at OthelI Catello's house in Mount Carmell. The interpreter said that he knew Catello and where he lived, and he was sent there in a carriage with Detectives Dennehy and Colwell to investigate.
 On getting out of the carriage Ruo- tolo went ahead, the detectives follow I ing close after, Detective Colwell going to the rear of the house, while Detec- tive Dennehy stayed in the front. Ruo- tolo knocked at the door and a moment or so afterwards a woman put her head out of an upper window and asked who was there. The interpreter replied, Tt is me, Frank Ruotolo; I want to see you minute." Ruotolo has sold seeds to the woman and she knew him, so af- ter telling him to wait minute, she said that she would come down and let i him in.
 As she was doing so Detective Col we'll rejoined the men at the front, and as the door was opened all three crowded past the woman into the hall. The woman became very much fright ened and while Ruotolo was trying to quiet her Sergeant Dennehy took the lamp which she had in her hand, away from her, and the detectives started their investigation. No one was found on the lower floor and an inspection of the upper part of the house was com l I1enced.
 l In one of the rooms two men were found in bed. The men said their names were Rerdinando and Tony and the officers after questioning them and learning nothing, ordered the men to get up out of bed, which they did No signs of Santaniella was found and the officers were leaving the room to continue their search when Sergeant Dennel1y noticed that the mattress on the bed appeared to be raised in the ceter. He pulled the mattress back and I found Santaniello underneath on anoth- Ter mattress, the men who had been in the bed having been lying on either side of him.. He was dragged out and I placed under arrest, and brought to police headquarters, arriving there shortly before o'clock. He was very much frightened but had no idea that his victim was dead. '. .
 Coroner Mix was there awaiting his