Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-25
x GENERAL HUNT.
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en- to the Jamaica Plain police sta
ton house to await the arrival OF the
witnesses to the shooting affair


ton house to await the arrival of the
witnesses to the shooting affair
Boston, Mass, July N.-Although
there was no resumption at daybreak
Friday of an organized search by a
small army of police officers for the re-
mainder Of the band of desperadoes
who We're responsible for the deadly
shooting in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday
and Wednesday, the local authorities
had not given up hope Friday of TAX
ing the responsible parties into Gus
tody and the police in all the surround
ing cities and towns were urged to
look out for any suspicious charac-
ters.
There was considerable conflict of
opinion among the police officials Fri
| day as to the actual number of the
original band which first appeared late
| Tuesday night in the Jamaica Plain
saloon, where they used their revolvers
with such deadly effect Up to Thurs
day evening it was believed that only
| the three men who appeared in the
saloon were concerned in the affair
but when the body of the man who met
his death Thursday in Forest Hills
| cemetery failed to be recognized as one
| of those who did the street shooting In
Jamaica Plain Wednesday afternoon;
when Di Vieco, who was arrested at
| the South station Wednesday night,
was identified as one of the band that
raided the saloon and when the report
| came that foreigners, two Of them
wounded, had been seen in the out
| lying district of West ROxbury sew
eral times Thursday, and had stolen
| two coats and left bloody ones in their
places, the theory that the band orig
inally consisted of four men was APP
parently strengthened. Those holding
to this theory also pointed out that
Di Vieco, the man under arrest could
| not have participated in the street
shooting and that the dead man was
not recognized as one who was in that
affair, there must be two still at large.
The district of the south and west of
the city in which the men were seen
Thursday is fairly well populated but
there are numerous hedges of wood
land, many of them occupied by colo
| MES of foreigners engaged in ccnstruc-
ton work which would offer fairly
good refuge for men fleeing from the
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that one of them might be severely
wounded. 1t is the hope of the police,
however, that the wound would require
treatment and this led to the appre-
hension of at least another member
of the gang.
The condition of those who were
wounded by the bullets of the bandits
was reported Friday to be more IA
vorable and there was little anticipa-
ton Of any more fatal results
A report came to the station house
during the morning hours to the effect
that a man had been seen on the
meadows bordering the Charles river
with a revolver. Two automobile loads
of patrolmen and detail of mounted
officers were Immediately dispatched
to the scene.
Shortly after the automobile left for
the Charles river meadows, report
came to the station that a suspicious
character had been seen entering
Franklin park. Capt. Wescott dis
patched the few available men he had
and notified Division 9 which hustled
a detail to the park.
Shortly after II o'clock this morning
the police of Division 10 captured a
suspiciously looking Italian at the cor
ncr of Heath street and Huntington
avenue. He was taken to the station
house. Witnesses to the bar room
shooting ARRAY were sent for and will
attempt to identify him as one of those
Implicated in the crime. He is dark,
slight build. feet, 8 inches in height
and about % years of age He cannot
talk English
Supt. of Police Pierce in an inter-
view this morning said:
II don't know whether we have all of
the three yeggmen or not under
stand from Captain Wescott that he
thinks that there is another man and
that they are still searching for him.
Whether McDougall is guilty or not
don't know. ] didn't see him when 1
was out there. officers arrested him
because they thought he did some of
the shooting. If he is guilty it will ap-
pear in court, if not let him prove it.
"As for DiVieco, don't know wheth-
err he is guilty or not either. l haven't
examined the evidence. that is not my
province. He acted suspiciously and
was arrested. Whether he can prove
an alibi or not I don't know
Although the body of the man who
shot early yesterday morning at the
entrance to the Forest Hills cemetery
and who Is supposed to be one of the
desperate bandits, has been viewed by
a large number of people at the City
hospital mOrgue, up to nOontime to-
day it had not been identified. There
is nothing on the clothing of the dead
man which could establish his identi-
ty, except the name "Edmundo Gut
man." written in the hat band Of a
black derby which he had on his head
when he fell at the cemetery gate,
pierced by eight bullets from the po-
lice revolvers.
While they are not sure that they
have one Of the bandits, the police
of Station 10 believe that the Italian,
which they have at the stationhouse
and who was caught at the corner of
Heath street and Huntington avenue,
this morning is most important cap
ture. lie became known later in the
day that a foreigner answering this
mans description had demanded food
Of Keenwood road woman, under a
throat that 10 ,youId ohoot bor