Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-09
HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
Man Supposed To Know About
 Murder of Rocco EIamo.

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 tectives Kennaugh and Colesanto,
 charged with the murder of Rocco
 Elamo, who was found dead in the
 brush off Highland avenue week
 ago last Tuesday afternoon by some
 men who were going fishing. The
 police are confident that Aquiliano
 Is the man that killed Elamo, and they claim to have a chain of evi-
 dence that will inevitably lead to his
 conviction.
 It was by the merest accident the | police got on this mans tracks. A
 week ago yesterday morning Detec-
 tive Colesanto went to the old Earle
 house on Bank street to arrest boy, a stepson of Aquiliano, for incor- rigibility. Incidentally the detective
 noticed things about the boys home | and particularly the behavior of | Aquiliano Colesanto thought the
 man acted very nervously. One or twice he caught the man eying him furtively, as though he was getting
 on his guard for some move he ex- | PCOtCu llOul LuC uCCCStlbO. Aquiliano made no demur to the
 boys removal, and that day the boy
 was sent to the state school in Meri-
 den. Colesanto could not rid his
 mind of thoughts concerning Aquili- amos suspicious behavior in the house so he started in to look him up. He found that the man came from Sicily and Elamo from Italy, and that both were great friends and
 occasionally put what the police call the double cross" upon fellow
 countryman, and that they never
 seemed short of loose coin, in fact,
 for men of their kind they appeared
 to have an abundance of it. This
 was singular, and the more Cole
 santo delved into the mans career the more he became convinced that he was on the track of the man who killed Elamo in the woods.
 A day or two ago he came upon
 what he considered the last link in the chain He found that the men quarreled over the division of the spells Tn a venture which banned out richly for both. But Elamo seemed to have superior intelligence and was more than match for Aquiliano in reckoning the compensation for their respective parts in the enterprise. Aquiliano was not satisfied and there was falling out with bitterness and they engaged to settle the matter in old country fashion. This was to fight it out in the woods, and it seems the custom is to keep the mat ter as quiet as possible, barring even ones relatives. The erstwhile friends proceed by themselves to the place decided by them for the fight and upon arriving there the more courageous one proceeds in front of the other, turns around. and the firing begins, if the weapons de- cided upon are revolvers.
 It is the theory of the police that on this occasion Elamo pretended or played the part of the more cour- ageous man, and before he had time to turn around and fire at Aquiliano. Aquiliano put bullet behind Fla mos ear. It will be recalled that 1t was the conclusion of the doctors who viewed the body of Elamo that the bullet hole behind Elamo's ear was the first one that was fired and that it proved fatal. Therefore Elamo must fallen dead instantly. It will be remembered<also, that all of the other nine bullet holes were in- flicted upon the front of the mans body, and the theory of the police is that the shots were fired at various angles to give the impression that more than one person had attacked Elamo. After the ten shots were fired into the mans body it was pulled into the brush and left where it was found by the two men going fishing.
 After Aquiliano was taken into custody last night he was asked if he cared to say anything, and he is re- ported to have answered that he did not wish to speak. The police look upon this answer with con siderable significance. They take 1t that it was the answer of a man who has been in serious trouble with the law before, for a person who had had no contact with criminal life would not have made such an an- swer.
 His arrest was the occasion of considerable agitation throughout that hive of buzzing humanity. the old Earle house. where Aquiliano lived. He is his wife's second hus- band.
 In the city court this morning he was held without bail for the cor oner. Frank Pope was on hand to give bail to the extent of a few hun dred dollars because Aquiliano used to trade in his store on Canal street He said Aqniliano has been in Water bury about four months and that he was married in Derby.
 A search of Aquiliano's apart ments disclosed half box of car tridges of the same ealiber and man ufacture that extinguished the life of Elamo. Aquiliano is a young man, different in appearance altogether from his alleged victim. Elamo ap- peared to be a man of some taste. AquiIiano as he sat In the dock In the court room presented anything but such an appearance. his black hair was tossed and dIsheveIed. his shirt was open at the neck and he looked grimy and troubled.