Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-01-17
MURDER AND
BELiEF THAT MISSING PEOPLE
AT FLORENCE WERE CHOP.
PED TO PiEcEs.
PARTS0fB0DIEsF0UND
sUsPEcTED MURDERER IN cue
ToDY AND MAY MAKE
CONFESSION.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Florence. Colorado. Wednesday night.
says: That Ercola Buiietti. Dominick
Minichiello. Joseph Minichiello and
Ms. Frank Palmetto have been foully
murdered and their bodies chopped to
pieces, the police consider certain.
What disposition was made Of tho
mutilated corpses was partly revealed
today when human lungs. thorax and
tho base Of o tongue were nshed out
Of the turbulent waters Of the Arkan-
sas river. f...
It ID believed that other ghostiy re-
mains arc being scattered along tho
bed Of tho river by the swift current
and towns below hero havc been NO
tned to watch for tho appearance Of
any evidence Of murder that may como
TO tho surface.
All Of tho srucsome evidence Of the
supposed auadruple tragedy may not
havo been disposed Of In this way.
Tho police theory il that when tho
bodies were hacked to pieces. tho muir
dcror may have boon guided by almost
maniacal cunning to scatter the bloody
fragments a. widely ~ possible. cast.
ing somo into the secrctkecpins river.
burying othcrs In out.ofthe-way
places. putting some Into tho depths
Of abandoned wells. cisterns or cess
pools. or reducing others TO ashes In
some sccrctcd fireplace.
Nasiro Sisinorxo. Mexican woman.
today reports to the police that yes
tcrday shc was asked to wush . suit
Of clothes and . shirt which wcre torn.
a. II In Q struggle. and spotted with
stains which tho woman believes wcro
madc by blood.
When Joseph Minichicilo vas killed.
tho police believe thcro was dcspcr.
aic nght. Il II believed that Minich.
iclio was killed in an orchard where
tho police found evidence of . sirus.
gic. While this tragedy was being On.
acted. tho theory 10. Buncttt accident.
ally appeared on the sccuc and wit.
ucsscd part OF Il.
Bufycsu was past sixty years old. and
had stopped with Bovori for two
months. working for his board. Hc
was nearly blind and deaf. His room
IL In disorder and tho clothes he wore
Monday lilo upon the floor. Tho police
believe ho was killed while he slept.
tho night after Minichiollo was muir.
dcrcd.
porori was subjected to searching
examination by Chief Of Police Fur.
Miss today. The chief says the pris-
oncf confessed having killed man IN
Italy before coming TO America.
Chief furniss says Bovori told hiss
that no knew where Mrs. Palmetto
could b found but that she would
never bc found alive. Further than
this tho prisoner refused to talk.
It. 10 said by nciThbors that Bovori
became infatuated with Mrs. Palmetto
who was only eighteen years old:
that his attentions to her caused her
husband TO get divorce: that when
shc eamc to Florence to work In a
restaurant. Boyori induced her TO keep
house for him. She had repeated,
refused to marry him. Il IL alleged.
The police today made thorough
search of Bovori's house. finding n
bunch OF letters addressed to TONY
Ncroni.- which is believed TO be DO
vori's real name. One letter was from
Bovori's father In Italy. asking the
young man TO return to tho old couu.
try and participate in fortune tho
family had recently inherited. The
father offered TO use every effort TO
clear tho son Of the murder charge in
italy II he would return. Ff.
When Bovori was searched at the
jail. he had s350 in currency. The 20
lice say ono Of tho bills bore stain
believed TO be Of blood.
The police believe the prisoner was
planning TO return to Italy and charge
him with killing tho Minichicilo broth.
ers TO get them out Of the way Of dis
posing Of joint property and TO obtain
what money they had. Dominick Min.
ichielio is said to have had 5000 when
he disappeared. -
Searching parties with graphing
hooks have been dragging the river
since the lungs and thorax were found.
in hope that IL the remainder Of tho
body Is lodged In the bed Of the stream
Il may be recovered. Part of the en-.
trails of a human being was found.
but nothing from which the Identity of
the victim could be determined. At the
point where the lungs were washed
ashore were tracks Of wheclbarrow
which. Il Is said. lead from the river
bank to Bovori's house.