Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-11-15
NUMEROUS CRIMES
APPALL P|TTSBuRC
MURDERS, RoBBERIEs AND AN
ATTEMPTED cRUClFIxION
TERRORIZE THE CITY.
YOUNG BUSINESS MAN
SLAIN BY A BURGLAR

Police Force Increased by the Mayor
- Young Woman Found with
Hands Nailed to Sink in Kitchen
of Her Home.
Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 13.-Pittsburg
"terrorized" and ikened to mining
camp or frontier town." is the tone
of all issues of Wednesdays papers.
With three murders, number of rob-
berries on the highway, accompanied
by violence, and an attempt at cruel
fixion in "a hours, added to the large
number that have occurred during the
past two weeks, there has been such
a public demand for extra police that
Mayor Guthrie and Director of Public
Safety Ridgeway have put on num-
Der Of extra patrolmen without legal
provision for their compensation,
trusting to the effect of public clamor
upon the select and common councils
for favorable action upon this move.
Bold HoIdups Follow Murder.
The record for "a hours, besides
the murder of Henry F. Smith, a
young business man of the fashionable
East end, who was shot by burglars,
who entered the Smith home, is ex-
tended by the robbery of Charles R.
Lawrence early in the morning at
Fifth avenue and Brady street, al.
most in the heart of the city. Law
renee was knocked unconscious with
a sluneshot and robbed of a gold
watch and all his money while going
home from the Hotel Schenley.
Nicholas Lewis, of Sharpsburg, a
few miles from the city, was beaten
and robbed and did not recover con.
seriousness for several hours. Ray
mond White, Of Duquesne, also was
found early in the day badly bruised
with several ribs broken. He also
had been robbed and could give nc
description Of his assailants.
Woman Found crucified.
The crucifxion case was brought
to light by the screams of a woman
in a tenement in Forbes street near
the Jones e Laughlin steel mills
Neighbors rushed in and found Mrs
Jean Mitchell, 10 years old, in the
kitchen, huddled in a kneeling posi-
ton on the floor, with both hands
nailed to the drain board of the
sink, with the blood running dowr
her arms.
Alongside the hand lay Ratchet
the weapon which had driven the
two big nails and which was then use(
to draw them out.
The woman was unconscious anC
was taken to a hospital. When shs
recovered she merely said that whe1
she entered her fat that mo=nins
something struck her on the back O.
the head, and she felt herself draw
toward the sink, her hand pressed
down against the board, and two nail:
driven in.
The police are looking for William
Nicely, known as William Mitchell
and the husband of the woman.
The days series of violent death.
was further augmented by the deatl
OF Sciafia Rauduci, an Italian, VIII,
was stabbed in a fight among railroad
laborers in boarding house. Thre,
others were badly cut by stilettoe.
and raZOrs.
Peter Nazidenci, an Italian, died IL
the Allegheny hospital from bu1
let wound fired by Peter Fedora. MAJ
ldenc1 was playing mandolin, t,
which Fedora objected, and threat
ened to shoot off Nozidenci's thumb
The threat was carried out, and il
addition to carrying away the thumb
the bullet penetrated Nazidenci's ah
domen. Fedora is under arrest.