The Washington herald., 1906-11-14
PRAYERS FOR POLICE
PittSburg Pastor Voices the
Sentiments of Residents.
MANY SEEK $1,000 REWARD
City still TerrOrized and officers AP-
pear HeIpIess-Woman Who Was
Cruciaed Amazed Police by Her
ActfOns-Suspect Is Arrested for
the Murder of Harry r. Smith.

Pitisburg. Nov l5,-The funeral of
Harry T. Smith. the young business man
who was killed by a burglar in his
fathers house in Icrror-stricken Pitts
burg last Sunday morning, took place
here to-day.
With tears streaming from his eyes.
Rev. Dr. Breed, who made the closing
prayer. cried: "Oh, Cod. help the police
or the city of Pittsourg 10 proteat tho
lives 81 its citizens
There is not citizen in PittsDug to-
night but who echoes that prayer, for the
hoid-ups ard rObberies seem to continue
without abatement-if anything. are get
ting worse. There were probably a score
of arrests made to-day under pressure
OF the 5000 reward which has been Of
fered for the arrest and conviction of the
perpetrators of the two recent murders.
Charles Buccinni, an Italian. who had
a badly wounded hand, a wound which
might have been inflicted by a pistol at
close range, is in the hands OF the po-
lice.
Even the women are taking a hand in
the hOld-up here. This morning Lillian
Smith. a blonde Of about forty years.
took the road. and the first one she met
was Joseph CantanO. of the Pressed Steel
Car Company. and she told him 10 stand
and deliver. Cantano pulled his gun to
cover Lillian. but she was TOO quick, and
took the gun herself also his roll and then
chased him some blocks with his own
weapon. she IS under arrest.
Opens Fire on Them.
Daylight burglars entered the house Of
Mrs Bassett, $50 Second avenue. at 9
O'Clock this morning. while the street
was torn up by city workmen. Mrs.
ment she saw a mask. and chased them
out Of the second-story back window,
but did not hit either OF them.
On crowded Smithheld street this after
noon a man attempted to drag a half
grown girl into an alley, and did not
release her until chased by some pedes-
trians. who heard her screams.
Clarke Duffy, in criminal court this
turned states evidence. and ad-
mitted that he had helped hold up aged
Judge Hawkins some months ago.
Even Allegheny has become excited.
Last night a citizen, rushing to the cor
ncr to turn in an alarm Of fire, was nipped
by a policeman as a burglar. and hustled
to the police station while the house
burned.
Police Are MyStIEed.
The police were to-day once mere
thrown at their wits end by develop
ments in the case of Mrs. Jean Mitchell,
the young woman who was 50 nearly
crucined in her apartments last Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Mitchell, who escaped from the
Homeopathic Hospital about / o'clock
this morning In spite of the orders of ply
sicans. was at noon brought to the po-
lice station and closeted with Chief Eagan
for an hour. She insists that It was not
her husband. William Mitchell, now un-
der arrest al Canton, Ohio, who nailed
her to the kitchen sink by nails driven
through her hands, but that it was the
work of housebreakers, who first Knocked
her senseless, then mistreated her in this
way.
All effort to shake the woman's story
was unavailable She was confronted
with the fact that Mitchell, whom she
has thought was her husband, had a wife
and family at Canton. Ohio. but this did
not even shake her, and at last the police
were forced TO the belief that she was
really miStreated Dy some or the army
Of thugs who have invaded Pittsburg.
Mrs. MiteheIPs story.
The story of Mrs. Mitchell, given to the
police, is as follows:
Il was alone In my apartment early
Sunday morning when I was dealt a
stunning blow on the head and fell. When
I regained consciousness my hands were
nailed TO the sink. / did not see the per-
son who made the assault on me, or who
nailed my hands. II could not have been
my husband. however. as he was out Of
the city, and he would have had no OBJ
ject IN treating me SO.
why I was struck or the head. or
why my hands were nailed to the sink.
90 not know, but I'm sure it was not
Billy"
Flowers for '.COming-Outv Teas.
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