The San Francisco call., 1905-04-09
Police Locate House
Where Murder
Occurred.
Bloody GleaVer and Bones
Tell Mute Tale Of the
Awful Deed.

Biaggio Vilardo was murdered in a
little room at T365kA Green street Pietro
Torturiti, q fellow Sicilian and can
maker by occupation. is the murderer
He is stil at large, and every energy
Of the Police Department is bended in
the hunt for him.
With her fve-month-oId baby in her
arms, the pretty wife of Torturiti is
held on suspicion of being implicated
IN the awful crime. The police are GER
tain that she employed her beauty TO
oecoy the victim to the place where
derous purpose.
chief Dinan is in possession of infor-
nation that Torturiti had announced
that he would kill Viardo when he got
him to Green street because he had
been too attentive to Mrs. Torturiti
Though the woman denies that she
knows anything about the murder, it
IS certain that she does. Captain Bur
nett even goes further. He thinks that
she may have seen it committed. A
blood-spatLered apron, upon which
tiny bit Of human flesh was glued, was
found in the house
The place where Biaggio Nilardo was
hacked TO pieces was located yester-
day. There was found absolute proof
that it was Pietro Torturiti, sometimes
known as Pete Torchi, who welded
the cleaver.
Viiardo was butchered in the front
room of the lower floor Of the little
mouse at 7365zA Green street, not much
over a block from where the mutilated
trunk was found The murdered man
had lived there with Torturiti and his
comely young Italian wife
The woman was found by the de-
tectives Just after dawn, when she was
returning from an all-night visit to
some place that she refuses to divulge.
The police believe that she was coming
back from the hiding place Of her hus-
band
Captain Burnett and all the detec-
tives are certain that the woman par
ticipated IN the plot. They believe that
she used her comeliness to lure Vilardo
70 leave his former lodgings at 10
Montgomery avenue that her husband
might carry out his diabolical con
sp.racy.
1T was the work Of a secret Sicilian
order" the police assert.
Besides the woman, four others have
been arrested and are held in the tanks
DONNA, Fippo Fretitta, Salvatore Ma
randa and Sam Possofumi. All of
these are Sicilians and were Identified
in some manner with the Joseph Bro
gardo case.
FRETTTTA GIVES CLEW.
The clew that led to the discovery
If the place where the murder was
Committed was obtained through Ere
ffffa. the landlord Of the premises at
10 Montgomery avenue, where the
Torturitis and Vilardo had formerly
lived together. He told the detectives
that the trio had moved TO some place
on Green streeI, near Mason.
detectives Tom Gibson, Ed Gibson
and Wren Immediately started out on
gaining this information, and located
the house an hour before dawn. They
entered il through a rear door and with
roclxet lanterns explored it thoroughly.
when the detectives arrived at the
front room they noticed dark blur
on the wall that was partly concealed
by a coat of kalsomine. Underneath
was q. wide, dark stain that could not
be washed away. IL was human blood.
Hastily the detectives moved through
the house Of crime. looking into every
corner. Finally Detective Ed Gibson
found the cleaver slowed beneath
sink ia the kitchen at the rear of the
house It had been washed and care
fully wrapped in copy OF The Call