The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-04
Shocking Case of Torture Charged Against Two Italians Arrested in
 Woodbridge.
TONGUE TERRIBLY TORN
Preserved in Alcohol and Will be Presented as Evidence at the Trial in the Superior
 Court.

side of the superior court promises well to be very interesting one. Not the least absorbing to the public will be the cases of Lorenzo Canepari and Giuseppe Lorande. the two Italian la borers bound over from Woodbridge for cruelty to a deer which they caught on December %.
 Since these cases were aired in Woodbridge some shocking evidences of cruelty have been unsarthed by the state. The men, it is alleged. practic- ed the worst kind of inhumanity imag- inable. The relating of what has been found against them cannot fail to nd the chills down the backs Of any lover of animals.
 In the office of the states attorney there is now bottle in which the tongue of the deer has been preserved in alcohol. It shows on 1t long and ter rible gashes and cuts. Another exhibit in the case is long piece of rusled barbed wire, which with the tongue of the deer will be put in evidence in the case when it is brought up before the court.
 The two men, Canepari and Lorande, were in the employ of the Water com pany and on the morning of December 22, which was a Sunday, they were working about the second reservo.r un- der orders to do everything that need be to keep the water clear of all mat ter, animal or vegetable, that might lend to pollnte it.
 As their own story goes, they found the deer frozen in the ice where it had gone to get drink of water. This part of their defense seems a little un- likely, for it seems long stretch oi the imagination to believe that any dser would allow itself to get caught ir the Ice in such a manner.
 Later the men were seen walking along highway near the reservoir, They had the desr with them strung up on a pole which they carried over their shoulders. Some one te.ephoned the game warden. David Clark, into whose arms they almost walked as he hurried out of his home to abprehend them.
 Just how the men can explain the fact that they were toting the animal along the country road seems hard to imagine. When arraigned before Jus tice of the Peace Jerome Downs in Woodbridge they claimed they were ig. norant of the game laws. They had however, taken every precaution, il would seem, to prevent being detected with the animal Instead Of killing the deer at the reservoir where possible traces of blood on the ground might expose them they had evidently startet out to carry the animal home first with the intention of killing it there where there would be less chance ol detection.
 To carry the deer the men made usc of a rusted barbed wire which they | found near the reservoir. The wire they had bound around the deer !: neck, around and through its mouth and then around its feet. The wire was then slung over pole and in tha way the deer was being carried along when they were apprehended.
 The extent of the d-ers terrible sui ferings where the wire cut ils tender | feet and neck must have been only 3 circumstance to the agony it endured in its mouth. There the tender toAgu, of the defenceless animal was litelall. cut to threads as the preserved xhibi | in the possession of the state shows
 Justice of the Peace Downs was sen | for from Bethany. A court was helC ,n the hous of Bertram Austin il Woodbridge and the men were ordered fined $lSS, solely for violating the gam, laws. They were repres nted by nc counsel The case was appealed to th court of common pleas.
 In the meantime the case had com, to the attention of the Connection Humane society. Through It's agent the Italians were again arrested on th charge of cruelty. The deer in tn, meantime had died of its injuries tn day after thy had caught it. IL wa at that time in the hands of the gam warden.
 It will be on this charge of cruelt, that the men will be brought befon the January session of the supelio court, criminal side. The inc. ests O the Humane society will be looked ou for by Attorney Wallace Moyle and ,h italians will have Attorney Charle | AcCulre as counsel