The San Francisco call., 1905-04-08
LANDLORD GIVES CIEM.

Aroused by the noise Of the police,
PHILIPPE Ferritti. the landlord at 71O
Montgomery avenue, appeared on the
scene and informed the detectives that
the murdered man had not lived in his
house for three weeks. It had been
a little over three weeks. according to
the story of the murdered man s
brother, since he had seen his brother.
They did not live together and he saw
him but two or three times a month
4 whispered conversation took place
between the detectives and the land
lord. in which Ferritti told Wren of
the address where he believed Vilardo
had moved to three weeks prior to his
death. After Crispino Vilardo had
been taken back to the Hall of Jus
tice and allowed to go, the police
started on a midnight hunt for the
house where Vilardo is believed to
have roomed at the time of his death
BROTHER IDENTIFIES APPAREL
The fact that the dead mans brother
stated that Biaggio Vilardo was liv-
ing and working in Oakland is dis
credited. When returned to the Hall
Of Justice, Crispino identified the shawl
and blanket in which the murdered
mans trunk was wrapped after the
crime. The shawl, he said, was given
10 his dead brother by his mother
when he left his home in Sicily a year
and seven months ago The blanket
also belonged to his brother and was
purchased by the dead man in China
town. The fact that the murdered
mans shawl and blanket were used by
his fiendish murderers to wrap his
warm body in after he had been foully
slain leads to the belief that the dead
man was living somewhere in the
neighbOrhood of his recent abode at 10
Montgomery avenue.
MURDERED IN HIS ROOM.
The prevailing theory is that Viii
ardo was living within radius OF a
few blocks from the point where the
mutilated trunk was found at the foot
Of a flight of stairs at the corner Of
Powell and Vallejo streets. That the
murder must have been committed in
Nilardo's room is shown by the fact
that the murderers- used the slain
mans blanket and shawl to wrap his
mutilated corpse in.
These foregoing facts also tend to
show that the man was struck from
behind with an ak or cleaver while at
his meal He was working irregular
iy ana had little money, for when he
worked he made but laborer's wages.
His brother says that he had coal
oil stove and often prepared his own
crude meals. 1t was after the prep
arauon Of his evening meal, as he sat
down 10 eat alone, apparently. that
his assassins crawled from behind and
gave him the death blows.
FABRICS ABSORB BLOOD.
If the foregoing theories be correct,
the muroerers chopped off the head
and extremities. divided the load,
wrapped the trunk in the dead mans
shawl ard blanket. to keep the telltale
blood from dripping According to the
police the parts Of the body were given
70 two men to deposit In the bay. One
man made his journey in safety and
deposited the sack containing the head.
arms and legs in the water at Fish
erman's Cove. The carrier of the other
portion Of horribly mutilated human
burden was not so successful
He probably met some one. or he
came nervous. and to make a detour
probably he turned down Vallejo street
from Powell and sought to gain access
70 the bay by way Of Stockton street.
IL was at this juncture that George
Olivia observed the murderer with his
peculiar load and caused him the fright
which was responsible for the aban-
dOning Of the trunk Of the murdered
man on the sidewalk at Powell and
Vallejo streets
Firm in the belief that the murdered
Nilardo lived in this city near the cor
ner Of Vallejo and Powell streets. the
detectives are seeking again to locate
his room, where they expect TO find
evidence of the crime.