The Colorado statesman., 1908-02-01
FOURTH BODY
DISCOVERED
LAST OF BOVORPS SUPPOSED
VICTIMS WAS KILLED WITH
A STlLETTO.
TRIAL To BE FASTENED
ITALIANS HAVE LOST ALL SYM
PATHY WITH THE
PRISONER.

With five ugly stiletto wounds in his
throat, the body of Joseph Minichiello,
missing since January 9Th, and sup
posed to have been murdered by An
tone Bovori, was found this afternoon
by Roy Green within a few yards of
the place where the bodies of Dom
mick Minichiello, Ercola Buffetti and
Mrs. Frank Palmetto were disnterred
ten days ago.
With the finding of this body, the
officers believe they have completed
the chain of evidence against the pris-
oner.
All the Italians have deserted Bo-
vori, and it is said he has not friend
in the country. Fearing violence on
the part of the prisoners countrymen,
Sheriff Esser has asked Warden Cleg-
horn to give him a cell in the peniten-
tiary until the May term of court.
Because Roy Green noticed that
ground he happened to be standing
upon while talking to two men this
afternoon was softer than that sur
rounding 1t, the deep mystery of blood
that has racked Fremont county for
nearly a month and baffled the officers
has been cleared
Green found his first clue last Fri
day, but met with little success until
today. When the ground yielded un-
der his tread, he drove a wooden rod
into it and discovered it was made"
ground. Securing shovel he began
to dig and soon revealed the half
frozen corpse, lying face upward eigh-
teen inches below the surface The
body was in a good state of preserva-
tion.
Coroner Whitmore was notified and
at o'clock the corpse was exhumed
and taken to the morgue where exam
ination revealed the cause of death
and gave the officers a clue to the
probable manner in which the murder
was committed.
The five stiletto wounds in the neck
plainly indicated the desperate deter
mination of the murderer to end his
victims life. There was no indication
of blow in the head with an axe, the
method used in Staying the other three
Italians.
1t is the theory of the officers that
Bovori killed Minichiello after COM
mitting the other murders with which
he is charged. 1t is believed he lay in
wait for Joseph Minichiello in the lane
and as the latter entered the gate
struck him with the stiletto. In the
fierce fight for life which followed the
other four wounds were inflicted.
blteH duN lHe lHtOTy IudI bO-
vori placed a bucket under the dead
mans head to eaten the flowing blood,
then went for his horse and wagon.
Placing the body in the wagon, Green
thinks Bovori drove east to the river,
doubled back through the water and
drove directly to the vicinity of the
other graves, disposing of the body
less than 100 feet from the others. A
battered bucket was found buried
with the corpse.
Green found the seat of the wagon
today. 1t was covered with blood. The
finding of pair of bloodstained trous-
ers today leads Green to believe that
Bovori, on returning to the wagon af-
ter burying the body. drove home sit
ting in the fresh gore of his alleged
victim.
The finding of this body the officers
declare effectually disproves Bovori's
story that Joseph Minichiello killed
the other Italians and was himself
murdered by jealous Coal Creek
miner.
What excuse Bovori will have to Of
fer now that the body is found is not
known, but the officers say tonight that
he is playing a deep game, which if
it does not fail, may save him from
the gallows. For the last two or three
Gays he mas Deen dCtlnS IN a mySter1-
GUS manner in his cell in the county
Jail and the officers think him plan
ming to make the court believe he is
insane. He does not sleep well and
his appetite is not as keen as a week
ago.
Warden Cleghorn has been asked to
take the prisoner into the State Peni-
tentiary until the May term of the Dis
trict Court, as Sheriff Esser is fearful
that since the body of Joseph has been
found, a mob might form and wreck
the county jail, feeling against the
prisoner being high here now.
So long as the whereabouts of JOS
eph was unknown the Italians of the
coal camps figured that Bovori might
be telling the truth about Joseph kill
ing the other three, but since his body
has been located close to Bovori's
other victims, Esser says he fears an
outbreak. Since Bovori's arrest all
the Italians in the camp have deserted
him and their sympathy is with the
Minichiello family. 1t is said to be
unusual for all Italians of community
to desert one of their nationality but
the prisoner has not a friend in the
county. Although it would be diff
cult matter for a mob to storm the
county jail, the officers are taking all
precautions and If Bovori cannot be ac-
commodated at the penitentiary. he
may be taken to the Jail of Pueblo
county The officers say they are de-
termined that he shall have a fair
trial
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