Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-14
MURDERED GIRLS
MOTHER APPEARS
Mrs. King, Formerly OF British
Columbia, Faces Fran
cesCo Ciddio.
Eyes HE'S THE MAN" SHE SAYS
Prisoner Avoids Looking az Her While
Preliminary Hearing is Carried on
Before Commissioner Baldwin.


After several delays the preliminary
hearing. forming a portion Of the OK
tradition proceedings of Francesca
Ciddio, wanted on a charge of dynamit-
ing a hotel and numbering the daugh-
ter of the hotel keeper. is on today
before Il. S. Commissioner Baldwin. A
dramatic moment of the hearing was
when Mrs King. mother of the muir
dered girl was called in to identify
the Italian sitting between officers.
Mrs. King IS a French woman. small
ana quick in action. She was dressed
in black AS she was being sworn
clddio turned his head TO one side
10 avoid meeting her gaze.
CAUSES STIR.
rs the prisoner there Francesca
c.ddio?s asloed Judge Howatt, APP
bearing for the Canadian government
''Ha Is" answered Mrs. King. CID
dio made no move but stir passed
through the crowd of Italians Jammed
in Il side room to the tive score or
more standing in the hall outside.
MOTHERS STORY.
Mrs King has been brought from
Oregon. her present home, to testify
in the hearing She arrived last eve
ming and IL was clearly a great sur
price to the prisoner when her name
was called out this morning. She I'M
lcerstands English slightly and speaks
imperfectly. She told the story of the
explosion and murder in broken style
but clearly enough to make her testi-
mony connected. So far as she could
remember. there were about nine Ital-
fans staying at the hotel run by her
husband in Grand Forks. b. c., in the
latter part of 1906 Most OF the for
oigners were working on railroad
being built through the district. Short
ily before Oct. is, 1906 her husband told
the Italians they would have to leave.
On the dale mentioned some OF the
foreigners were drinking in various
saloons in the neighborhood. But they
were all at supper in the evening eN-
cept Ciddio He came into the hotel
and tramped upstairs to. his room. whore
those around the table heard him
stamping about:
DAUGHTERS DEATH.
Th evening meal over Mrs. King re-
malned in the kitchen, while her IS
year-old daughter was helping her
with hcuseworlS. Suddenly the girl
cried out, "Firel' and came running
towards her mother. AS she did so
thing Mrs, King knew she was try
ing franticahy to climb from beneath
a pile Of debris. Succeeding she called
TO her daughter, but there was no an
swer. second explosion followed
and II was all over, The wreckage
was on fire and burned Hereby. being
reduced TO ashes by morning.
did you see your daughter from the
time she started running toward your
asked Judge Iowatt
mo" answered the little woman ."
didn't Even at the funeral they
wouldn't let me SEQ her."
Mrs. King told how Ciddio came
down, into the kitchen, just before the
explosion, brandishing a long knife,
and upon the advice of others, Mrs,
King and daughter went outside, cid
iio looked mad she explained.
DEWITT TEsT1FEEs.
Another witness this morning was
w. j. Dewitt of tho provincial police.
who, with Deputy Marshal l.uoian H
this city Jan. 81. The two officers
engaged Ciddio in conversation. and
while talking led him right into the
county Jail, thus bringing years
hunt on the part of Mr.. Dewitt to a
story-bock climax. Under cross-ex-
animation by Attorney Leatherwood
Mr.. Dewitt said he had told Ciddio af-
ter he had been put under arrest that
anything he might say would be used
against him at the trial. Understand
ing this, according to the witness, the
prisoner confessed to carrying powder
and placing some under the building
and some in the second story, and set
ting II off. When asked why he had
done this. Mr.. Dewitt said Ciddio had
answered TOO much whisky" This
was the reason he offered several
times.
AT 1880 o'clock an adjournment was
taken until ? O'Clock, when Deputy
Marshal Smyth, who IL confined to his
home with a bruised foot, can be
brought in a carriage to the commits
sioner's office TO testify II is OK
pected all evidence will DO in by this
evening