The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-17

Assailant, Tommisso Buccino, of Meri-
 den, Caught by Police Shortly After
 inc AGair--Identifled by Brother of
 Injured Man--Men Had Been Drink
 ing All Day-Wrong Man Arrested at
 First.
 In less than half an hour after Guis- scope Pedulla was cut with razor at the corner of Commerce and Factory streets last night he was under the care of the surgeons at the New Haven hospital and Tomnisso Buceino, the man who is alleged to have done the cutting, was locked up at central sta tion. The injured mans nose was com pletely cut off, but it was stated at the hospital that he was noe in a serious condition and that the surgeons could dress the wound so that he will not be badly disfigured.
 The credit for the capture of Buccino belongs to Detective Sergeant Dennehy and Detective Dorman, who left for the scene of difficulties on Commerce street as soon as the news was telephoned in to central station. They met the man on Commerce street and picked him up as answering the description that had been given them, and started to take him to the home of Pedulla, at 235 Commerce street, to see If he could be identified As Buccino went along with the detectives he was noticed to be act ing peculiarly and was detected in an attempt to throw something behind him. The detectives stopped to see what it was, and found the blade of a razor, with which he doubtless did the cutting
 Buccino was taken to the lookup and the detectives went back to Commerce street to hunt up witnesses. Vincenzo Pedulla, brother of the injured man. was found, and, with number of other Italians, he came to the station and identified Buccino as the man who had been spending the day at the home of his brother. He did not see the cutting. It was learned that the only man who was a witness to the difficulty was a colored man named William Bonner who lives on Commerce street. He could not be found last night.
 The quick work of the police in this case was commented upon by several people who heard of the affair last night. Word first came into police headquarters From Sergeant Herman, of station 3, at S:1O o'clock Sergeant Gib- son, who was in charge, immediately notified all the outlying stations, and Officer Streit at the depot was put on the watch, Officer Streit replied that he had noticed a man answering the description given, and Officer Cannon was sent with the wagon. The man, whom Officer Streit tcok from the Wa terbury train, was Vercellone Battista, of Waterbury. He was taken to the hospital. but the injured man could not identify him and he was taken to cen tral station. While he was being ex- amined by the officers there Sergeant Dennehy and Detective Dorman arriv- ed with Buccino, and Battista was al lowed to go.
 Giuseppe Pedulla, the injured man, is thirty-two years old and works for the New Haven Fat Rendering com pany. Buccino is thirty-one years old and lives in Meriden. According to the story told by Vincenzo Pedulla, Buccino came to New Haven yesterday morn ing to spend the day with his brother. The men had been drinking together pretty much all day. It could not be learned what was at the basis of the quarrel which resulted in the cutting. Buccino was very cool when arrested and denied any connection with the difficulty.