The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-17

AS soon as the two men were ar rested the girl was brought to confront them and she positively identified them as the two who had done the decd They were brought in and held In the police lookup for the investigation. At the session which was held yesterday Deputy Coroner Pond examined the Lewis girl and the two Italians who are under arrest and these were the only persons who were examined. A long and thorough examination was course of 1t. It Is understood the two men made very conflicting and pecu- liar statements. which would seem to initiate against them. The girl on the other hand told a clear, frank story and stuck to the same story from start to finish. From the appearance of the evidence so far as 1t can be forecasted 1t looks strongly as If the girls story would be corroborated by other witnesses and the men arrested are likely to be held for trial.
 The only theory which has yet been advanced to give a motive to the at tack outside of mere wantonness ls that the Italians have been very much bothered by thieves getting In their watermelon patch and that they thought these young people were enter ing the patch to steal. The crime oc- cured right beside the watermelon patch which stretches for some dls- tance one side of Barnes avenue while on the other side of the spot there is a small cornfeld with high board fence in front of 1t. To some the motive sug' gested seems weak, but so far thert has been nothing In the evidence tc suggest any other unless pure wanton ness could be the cause of the crime l The girl maintains that Sheehan wa: first struck with a pltchfork and tha the shot was fired later. Dr. Bartlett made his official examination of thu body yesterday, but did not complet' 1t in time to report to Coroner Pond From the superficial examination wh ci was given the body shortly after th occurrence the girls account seems t be borne out. It is expected that tn official report of the autopsy will b | given thls afternoon when the examin alton will be resumed There are large number of witnesses to be ex amined yet, mainly Italians, and It | not likely that the examination VIII b concluded today.
 The detectives have secured the shot gun with which the fatal shot wa fired and that is now held as ev,denc in the case. It is a large doube-bar relied affair and only one of the cham bers is discharged, the other being stil loaded It was found in the Dl Luci house. The detectives also brought fl as evidence a pltchfork which is sup posed to be the one with which Since han was first assaulted. This va found yesterday In the barn in tn rear of the Di Lucia place Ralph Car flo, the younger of the two lads ar rested was one of the witnesses for tn Di Lucias in their trial when the were convicted of murder. It Is sal that he drove the team which brough them down to the Box shop where the laid in wait for Antonio Arnone, ( whose murder they were convicted Campagnagli, the other prisoner, Ina only been out of state prison abot four months. He was sentenced serve eighteen months there for bul elary committed at the store of ma by the name of Goldberg at the cornc of Grand avenue and Hamilton stree At that time he was arrested by of cers Healy, now detective, and Sel geant Klaiber
 A large crowd of people went ol yesterday to see the spot where tt crime was committed and they agree that despite the moonlight of u night before the place must be mo desolate and lonely spit at night. Prol ably as many as two thousand pc sons went to the scene yesterda There was little to be seen, howeve for the signs of the murder were fe' the young man losing little bloc The crowd walked about and invest gated the place thoroughly. There WI a large proportion of Italians In tl throng, who were drawn to the SD
 by the news of the atrocious killing
 Speaking of the details of the mu der the Lewis girl, whose story so f.
 remains unshaken gives the folloWii statement of the trouble:
 George had never had any trouh
 with anyone that I know of" she i
 sisted, "and we had walked over tt
 road together lots of times witho
 meeting anyone. Tonight we hea
 the footsteps of the men running b
 hind us but thought nothing of
 and he remarked that the car mt
 be coming, as somebody was runni
 for it back of us
 We hurried a little, and sudder
 the two men, one tall and heav
 built and the other shorter and
 white trousers, swung in front of They uttered something in Italian, a
 George started to ask them what W
 the matter when the tall man lifted "a pitchfork and struck him across
 face. He dropped down and was u
 ing 10 get out Ol IHe way WneH
 little man, who had rifle in
 hand, fired It. l hardly renlemt
 what he did, I was so frightened,
 I know that I had tussle with
 big man, and that they both ran ba
 from the direction they came. I kn
 1t was some of the Italians on tf
 farm up there" she declared, poi
 ing up the avenue. q think I g.
 them there before, but I know u
 two little dogs that followed tn
 down after us are watch dogs at u
 place"
 The detectives will work on
 case again to-day and will proba
 be among the witnesses called
 formal examination this afternoon