The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-02-20
Murder
Inquest
Is Held
Incidents Leading Up to the
Shooting Are Related to
the Goroner's Jury.
BLOOD ON A COLLAR
Caused One Foreigner to Avoid
Detection-TWo Men Are
Arrested for the Crime.

Arrested for the Crime.
Behind the bars of the county jail,
James Cirillo and James Chirillo,
two Phoenixville Italians, are held
prisoners awaiting the conclusion OF
an investigation BY Acting Coroner
John T. Flynn and jury into the
death of Antonio Puttze, Slavish
miner who died Friday morning of
a pistol shot wound received in
pre-nuptial celebration at the O'Gara
mining settlement there Tuesday
might. The jury is endeavoring to
identify the prisoners as the two
men Puttze was with on the hillside
below No. 10 house last Tuesday
night one Of whom shot him.
The two prisoners were arrested
at Phoenixyille Friday night by
Magistrate Flynn and brought to the
county jail by him, after he had
made a brief investigation of the
case.
Magistrate Flynn empanelled a
jury Saturday morning which con-
vened at the Clifford-O Osborn under
taking morgue to which place the
body of Puttze had been removed.
While viewing the body the testi-
mony OF DR.. c. N. Slater was taken.
He said that theb ullet wound in the
mans leg was the cause of his death,
blood poisoning having set in. DR..
Slater went to Puttze's boarding
house Thursday afternoon about
$40 O'Clock in response to call and
found the man lying wounded on a
bed suffering considerably He ex-
tracted the bullet and treated the
wound antiseptically. AS to wheth-
er the mans life could have been
saved had physician been called
sooner, DR.. Slater said that would be
difficult and perhaps impossible to
ascertain as the infection might have
set in very soon after the shooting.
The jury then went to Coroner w.
P. Camps office in the court house,
where Joe Collins, the first witness
was sworn and examined. Collins
said he never knew Puttze before his
death and knew nothing about the
shooting. He went to Andy Muir
checks house Tuesday night and
staid all night. George Gewold and
his bride-elect came there and they
staid all night leaving the next
morning for the church where they
were married. He heard no shots
that night nor didn't hear of any
shooting scrape until Thursday.
Martin Mikrut. at whose house
Antonio Puttze boarded and in which
the latter died. was sworn and told
the following story:
Tuesday evening before 10 O'Clock
I saw two young men making fun IN
back room of No. 10 house at the
O'Gara settlement. After walking in
to the from room and seeing them
there told them not to cut up like
that. Behave yourself and have q
good time If you want to-" I saw
two Italians sitting in the same room
where the two young men were and
Antonio Puttze was there also.
Puttze. strated to dance with my wife
and the two young men walked out
but came back in about three min
utes. They kicked my bass violin and
told them not to do that us the
bass violin cost me some money, but
after told them that they kicked
the violin again. Then told them to
go out If they would not behave
themselves as we did not want to
have any trouble at all.
Then two of them jumped on me
and one of them said: we are sin
gle men and we are not afraid of
you' Antonio Puttze said the same
thing and also came at EN-. After 1
stepped away from them one follow
ed me and we had mix-up but I
don5t remember whether 1 hit him or
he struck me. I believe 1t was Putt
re. One of the men was stani Fer
enc and the the other was Martin
Bjeng.
After Puttze and Ferenc beat me
they showed me out into the kitchen
and thence outside the house. A
beer key was sitting outside the door
and fell over 1t and as fell Puttze
said Now I've got YOU Two or
three women and man came out
and picked me up and took me into
the front room. Tony Puttze, Mar
tin Bjeng and Stanl Ferenc then left
the house. 1t was about 10 o'clock
then. 1 went into the front room
and sat down. My wife brought me
a glass of water and while drinking
1t heard shot outside. went in
to the kitchen and Martin Bjens
came in from the outside and said