Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-25
For Suspicious Characters
Is Actively Prosecuted
By Boston Police IN Hope Of
Capturing More Desperadoes.
Several Arrests Made Friday...Two
OF the Suspects Armed.

Boston, July N.-AS the aftermath
to the shooting up of Jamaica Plain
last Tuesday and Wednesday nights
when two men were killed and q dozen
others injured and one of the three or
four bandits was shot dead in Forest
Hills cemetery Thursday morning by
a hundred Boston policemen, the pO-
lice of the Jamaica Plain division are
tonight holding six suspects, none of
whom, with the possible exception of
one, has been positively identified as
being concerned in the affray.
The police tonight are following UP
a clue that the dead ycgg, who is
thought to be Giuseppe Gutman, for
mcrly lived in Winchester and lately
moved to Rugglcs street, RoXbury.
The Italian arrested at the South
station Wednesday has been identified
by one or two of the patrons of the
saloon shot up Tuesday night as one
of the men concerned in that affair
No one has been found up to late
tonight, however, who would idcnti
fy him AS having been concerned in
the shooting. Hugh McDougal. who
was arrested in Forest Hills cemetery
Thursday morning. Pasquale Sepa and
ham, who were arrested in the Need
ham woods today; and the Italian.
who vas arrested at the corner Of
Heath street and Huntington avenue
today ard had an Anarchistic paper
on his person, Or youth giving the
name cf A Wcs aged Il years, Of
New York, who was arrested late in
til" day.
The police tonight are keeping close
WataCh of the Lithuanian colony i'll
Jamaica Plain, where it is claimed,
the dnspcradocs changed some of their
clothes before escaping, and where it
is thought the bandits may have had
friends The section has been under
the eyes of the police for some time,
as it was in this section that the po-
lice last year lost all trace of one of
the ycggS who was concerned in the
shooting up of Il part of Woburn. 1t
is even thought that the man who cs-
capped the police at that time may have
been concerned in the late shooting.
There was little change in the condi-
tion of the more seriously wounded to-
night and with the possible exception
of Patrick Doran and Officer McMa
hon, all will recover.
Boston, July 24-Four arrests made
the activity of the Boston police in
their hunt for the other participants
in the Jamacia Plain shooting affray
on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
Rluccoats. mounted and on foot, ac-
companicd by plain clothes inspectors
and citizens have been searching to-
day the thickets and other possible
hiding places about the West l;oXbury
section of the city. Every other Bos-
ton police officer. who was on duty to-
day, together with those in the sur
rounding cities and towns, have been
on the lookout for suspicious looking
characters. AS a result of the search,
two men were captured in the Need
ham woods, one man was taken on
Heath street and still another in the
South cnd.
The body of the supposed bandit
who was shot down in Forest Hills
cemetery yesterday and which lies
at the City hospital morgue. has not
as yet been identified.
When the two men were captured in
Necdham reached Station 13, they gave
the names of Pasquale Sepa and Fran
cisco Alfcrdo SpeCdutn and said they
lived in Dcdham. They were loaded
down with cartridges and both carried
revolvcrs. Sepa had 4 razor hidden
away in his coat.
All the four arrested today were TAX
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