The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14
EIGHT BULLETS AND 4 KNIFE
EVIDENCE OF PLOT IN MURDER
ON CANAL BANK.

Body Weighted With q stone and Cast Into
the Water-COnHederate $50 BiIl
Found in o Professionalism That the
Victim Was Killed by COnsplratOrs.
The body Of a man riddled with bullets
and with the throat cut from ear to ear
was found In the Morris and Essex Canal at
a lonely spot near the Forest Hill golf links,
In the outskirts Of Newark, yesterday. The
mar had evidently been done to death. He
was a big, s~trapping fellow. appar emily an
Italian, and might have put up a good fight
before his enemies succeeded In killing him
From the evidence obtained about the
scene where the body wal found yesterday
morning the Newark police decided that the
man had been lured to the spot by several
conspirators some time on Monday night;
that he had first been shot at by at least two
persons, and that subsequently his throat
had been out and his body then cast into the
canal. Before throwing the body into the
canal It was weighted with a heavy stone to
keep 1t on the bottom, but this plan was not
successful and the body rose near enough
TO the surface for it to be discovered.
The man was about IS years old, thickset
and brawny. Gordon Maxwell, a factory
hand, found the body as he was on his wa
TO work yesterday morning. He was
crossing a small bridge over the canal when
he cav the feet and legs floating near the
surface. The rest Of the body was more
deeply submerged In the murky water Of
The canal. A stone weighing at least 100
pounds had been tied to the body with a
piece Of olothesline. The line had been
wound around the mans waist and Shout
ders, but it had become loose and had al
lowed the body to float upward from the
stone. The canal is about seven feet deep.
would probably haze remained on the bot
tom and the murder been undetected until
the annual cleaning Of the canal takes place
come months hence.
An examination by County Physician
Mckenzie showed that eight bullets had
been fred into the body. They had evil
IDENTIFY been fired from all directions. Three
were in the head. One Of these had appar-
emily been fred from the back and went
through the. back part OF the skull. An
other had hit the man almost in the centre
of the forehead. Still another had struck
the left eye and had been DETECTED down
ward, cutting through the cheek. Two
bullets had struck the back and two more
were fired into the abdomen. Still another
DuIIeU ndu HU tn6 man III tne TlRnC mana.
That the murderers got very close was
shown by the powder marks found about
the holes made by the bullets in the back
and abdomen.
The cut in the neck reached almost from
ear to ear and must have been done with
a razor or a knife having a razor edge.
1t had been done with a view to make the
deed more iendish or else to make death
certain, although the autopsy showed that
he bullets must have done this before the
knife was applied.
Near the bank of the canal is a small
cherry tree. This tree had been freshly
cut with an axe about a foot from the ground.
The cut was nothing more than a blaze.
The police are inclined to attach significance
to it. believing that it possibly served to
mark the spot to which the victim was
10 be lured.
Alongside the towpath, in a gully, was
found a black alpine hat which the murdered
man may have worn. Near the hat were
several large pools Of blood. There we're a
number of footprints visible, evidently
made by several persons, as they were not
all similar. On the towpath the police
picked up ten cartridges. Four OF the
shells were loaded and the rest were empty.
some of them were of .3s calibre. while
others were Of 80 calibre.
The hat had in it the initials y. E." In the
mans clothes were found two pawntickets,
one for a suit of clothes and the other for a
pair OF shoes. One was made out to Tony"
issued by j. Goldschmidt of il37 Second
avenue. He said Yesterday that he could
not remember anything about the person
who had rawned such articles. The man's
clothing was of a cheap quality. In his
pockets were found one cent and a $50 Con-
pamphlet entitled The Good Novel, pub
lished by p. A. Grandjean, Al Boswell ave-
nue., Toronto, Canada.
Several men were found by the police
yesterday who had heard unusual sounds
in the direction of the spot where the body
was found. One of these, Jesse Corby,
who had charge of a stable near the spot,
told the police that he was walking along
Franklin avenue. about 100, yards from the
spot, at s:45 O'Clock Monday evening, when
that he had Paid no attention to them be-
cause shots were frequently fired in hat
nr!ghborhood by Italians celebrating.
Charles Hauda, who is caretaker for some
greenhouses in the nighorhood, said that
ABOUT the same time he had heard what
e, ga aged in a fight. He didn't hear any
shots, he says.
There is an Italian colony about a quarter
OF a mile from the canal. The police can
vassed this section but were unable to turn
up anything that would aid them in their
search for the slayers OF the mar or his iden-
tifcation. They made up their minds that
the man a come from New York. The
spot is not one which n stranger would nave
any excuse for being near. The theory
the police are inclined to accept is that the
man was lured from New York by a gang
of Italian blackmailers. There have been
reported attempts at Matchmaking
by the Italians in Newark but whether the
myrderers belong there or in this city the
police have not determined as yet. They
have no doubt that the motive Of the crime
was revenge and not robbery, as the mans
condition seems to preclude the latter as the
motive.
The finding OF the Confederate bill in his
pocket has suggested that he belonged to
q gang Of bunco men, and the eight bullet
wounds nave suggested that he was done
TO death by the gang for some betrayal or
anticipated betrayal Of their interests.