The Washington herald., 1908-02-21
BETRAYER IS SLAIN
Italian Who Talked Meets
with Horrible Death.
BODY IS CARVED TO PIECES
New York Police Unravel Mystery OF
Torso and Limbs Found ON Dump
Barber ShoP-Yictim's Tongue Cut
Oh-scarch for COunterfciters.

New York. Feb. 2o-SaIvatore Marchinne,
who knew more than was good FOR him.
and told more than he should have. went
into barber shop somewhere in The
Italian colony in Brooklyn after closing
hours on Wednesday night and was
shaved.
Just as the barber was about finishing
with him. some one from behind pin
ioned his arm to the chair while another
man drove a stnetto deep into the left
side OF his neck with three savage
strokes.
The blinds were down in the front OF
the shop At the time and the door was
locked. but despite the small danger of
interruption the men who had planned
the death OF Marchinne hurried bung-
lingly about their task Of disposing Of his
body First they took the corpse out OF
the chair and into back room. where the
baths were located. Then with BARRIERS
razors and with a small hack saw. suca
as is used by laborers TO saw through
steel. they dismembered the body. sep
arating the limbs from tie trunk and
cutting through the bones below the
joints
Task a Hurried One.
So hurriedly did the murderers perform
their grewsome task that they did not
even undress the body before beginning.
but made sweeps Of the razor through the
outer clothes and undergarments. Then.
10 insure, as they thought. against the
identification of their victim when his
dismembered body should be found. they
sliced off all the features Of the face that
fell within the sweep Of one or two slash
ing cuts Of the razor
That done. the severed stumps OF the
limbs were washed clean and. after much
Of the blood that flowed from the wounds
had drained away into the vents of the
bathtubs or upon oilclota laid upon the
floor, the murderers tied up the body in
one bundle OF new OilclOth. the limbs in
! another. and some time after the storm
had ceased on Wednesday night. or early
Thursday morning, they took the two
bundles in a cart out 10 a dump grounds
near the corner of Rochester avenue and
Rutland road. in the Flatbush district Of
Brooklyn, and there dumped them among
| the piles of rubbish
Police Work Out story.
This is the recitation of the events OF
! crime as the detectives under Capt.
Kuhne head Of the Brooklyn detective
staff, and Inspector John J. O'Brien, OF
the police force. have made it. Working
| on this hypothesis. which is well borne
out by circumstantial elews that the
murderers left thick in the path. the
sleuths are hunting through Brooklyn and
portion of the Italian colony in New
York for some men who once were ar
/ rested as counterfeiters on the informa-
| ton given by a traitor in the crowd.
SalvadOfe Marchinne. they are convinced
was that traitor who knew much and
/ told more than he should.
When the detectives opened the
I cIenched teeth of the dead man. to-day.
barely covered by the lips that had been
! half shorn away. they found that the
end OF the tongue had been cut off. Sal
vadOre Marchinne was killed not to be
robbed. nor through the jealousy Of q
| husband or lover. but because he once
| told something.