The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-21
ATROCIOUS CRIME
 NO DOUBT, DONE
State Begins Case Against One
 of AllegedsTrio of Slayers.

State Begins Case Against One
 of AllegedhTrio of Slayers. Authorities Handicapped by
 Inability to Locate Missing
 Woman and Alleged Para
 Body of Husband, Slain in | Woods, Whose Spouse Au-
 thorities Allege Was Re | creant to Marital Vows Dug | Out of Earth Where it Had 1 Been Buried for More Than
 Year.
 Counsel for both sides in the case
 of Dominica Bove, charged with the
 murder of Guisseppe Bergamo at Dar- fen on Dec. 31, 1905, have had a hard
 time in selecting the jury. Of the | extra panel summoned to be on hand yesterday afternoon, only seven were | chosen out of the tWenty-tWo exam | ined, while the other five were selected
 out of nineteen questioned this morn | ing, making Al jurors summoned be-
 fore the panel could be completed. | Prospective jurors were excused for various reasons, some that they had relations with the attorneys in the case, others because of ill health | thought they could not stay through the proceedings of the trial, while oth-
 CTS had conscientious scruples against capital punishment. The jurors fin ally selected were:.
 George s. Hawley of Monroe: Cliff ford F. Ellwood of Westport; William H. Taylor of Westport; Harry Rider of Norwalk and Bridgeport; Martin V. B. Burr of Redding; David J. Botsford of Trumbul1; Frederick A Young of naan; Frederick B. Wakeman of Fair field;. Robert L. Chamberlain of Greenwich; George Burr Tucker of Easton, and Edson L. Purple of Will ton.
 When the Indictment was read against young Bove, who is about 9 years old, he pleaded not guilty to the charge. The crime for which Bove is accused occurred Dec. 31. 1905, but was not discovered till about a year ago, when the body of the victim was un- covered in the woods between Dar1en and Noroton by a party of huntsmen- The matter was kept quiet for some time so as to enable the authorities to make a full Investigation
 Back in December, 1905 strange oc- currenceS happened in Darien- One Pasquale Marzano was an alleged star boarder at the home of MT. and Mrs. Guisseppe Bergamo in Darien. An other boarder was Dominfco Bove- The star boarder had been making I love to his boarding mistress and it is believed that the master of the house resented. Marzano and hrrs- Bergamo planned an elopement, but the hus- hand was in the way The authori- ties allege that the star boarder, the woman and Bove enticed Bergamo in to the woods and there murdered him by shooting him in the back. To cover up any traces of their deed they buried their victim near the scene of the killing.
 Shortly after the alleged crime, Mrs. rien. Bove went to Pennsylvania and the other two to Sicily. There was nothing said at the time, as it was be- lieved that they were just going to fields It was not till after the find ing of the body in the woods, that evi-< dence was found tending to duplicate the trio. Bove was rounded up in others are still at large. The case has been on the slate for over year, the states attorney hoping to get the two suspected acco1nplices. Unable ken up.
 After the impaneling of the jurors this morning, court took a recess for l few minutes, it being about noon when | the first witness was called. Steve | Elsa and Francis Zaffino of Stamford, | tn ehuntsman who found the corpse, | testified that while walking through | the woods near Darien about a year | ago. one of them happened to stumble over stone, and in their falling kick | ed up a small bone. They investigat- ed further and were astounded to find | quite a number of human bones. On | tod their find to the authorities, who | warned them into silence. The next | evening the two men accompanied, Dr. Albert L. House, medical examiner for | Darien. Chief of Police Brennan of | Stamford and Leo Donatelle to the | scene, where the body of man was dug up.
 Leo Donatelle who acts for the state in cases of this sort, told the court of his connection with the case. He told of the finding of a pipe, belt, of the shoes in which the bones of the feet were sticking, and fragments of cloth court. The pipe he knew was of Ital- ian make as they do not make any of it's sort in this country.
 Dr. Albert l.. House testified that he examiner, and removed the bones to his offices. In his Investigations he found there were eleven small bones in the body missing, that the bones in his possession were bare except those parts of the body which lay on the heart, on which a mass of decom- position had formed This mass he 1ad looked over and pulverized. He found 32 small shot of the No. va -iety and a small felt wadding. In his opinion from where he found the shot and wadding, which was in a circle about two inches in diameter, lay di- -ectly over the right kidney, showing hat the victim had been shot from behind. How near the person was that lid the shooting he could not say. The rial was in progress at press hour. ROMAN AND GREEK CATHOLIC
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