The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-15
NO CHEW TO ASSASSIN Police Still Baffled in Search for Man Who Shot Three
 Children IMPOSING SCENES
 AT THE FUNERALS Little Girl Dropped Up in Chair Tells Details of
 Crime Believed that Shadow of Black Hand Rests on
 Afflicted Families
Special from United Press.)


 Utica, N. r., Sept. 15.-Forty-eight hours search by the police has failed to develop any tangible clew bearing on the identity of the man who shot Theresa Procopia and Ferdinando In- fusino to death in a ravine in this city Sunday night, and who shattered the arm of Fannie Infusino with a pistol shot.
 Rewards aggregating $3,250 have been offered for. the apprehension of the assassin, but thus far these induce ments have accomplished nothing be- yond bringing into the search num- Der of amateur detectives whose activ- ities have proved a positive hindrance to the police.
 The police say that the outlook for the apprehension of the murderer is cence of the families of the victims, but the officers have not abandoned hope and after a night of ceaseless efort on the part of a squad of 25 po- lice and detectives, a fresh detail took up the hunt today.
 Chief of Police Brophy and District Attorney Willis are more convinced than ever that Fannie Infusino, the single survivor Of the three children shot by the assassin, can tell the name
 
 do so, and before noon they visited Paxton Hospital where she is recover ing from the effects of the wounds, and by gentle questioning sought to draw from her a clew as to the iden- tity of the murderer.
 The little girl propped up in a chair, deliberately told the details of her trip to the ravine and the circumstances of the murder of her brother and Theresa Procopia, but when Chief Brophy. g--IB- L to tell the name of the man who com mitted the crime, she said she could not do it. When Chief Brophy asked her to repeat to him the name of the murderer as she divulged it to Mrs. w. c. Gray immediately after the dis covery of the. plight of the children in the ravine, Fannie denied she had de- clared to Mrs. Gray the identity of the murderer.
 The police, while chagrined, are not greatly surprised at the attitude of the Infusino girl, for the authorities today are more than ever convinced that the shadow of the Black Hand rests on the members of the afflicted families and in terror of their own Hives they are preserving secretiveness which is baff1ing the police in their search and which promises to prevent a solu- tion Of the case.
 Sometimes when an insane man kills a victim, he follows his act by killing himself.
 The theory has been advanced that the assassin may have been a maniac and that he crawled into one of the culverts under the streets which cross the ravine where the crime occurred and there made away with himself. But the entire locality has been search ed by the police and no trace of the murderer was discovered.
 Today the bodies of Theresa and Ferdinando were laid in their graves amid such scenes as are seldom wit messed in this city. Thousands of per sons, representing all classes, gather ed at the home from which the chill dren were 1ured to death. Following a brief service by a priest, the bodies were carried to St. Agnes cemetery, the heartbroken relatives riding in car riages and thousands of sympathizers following on foot to the place of bur- ial.
 Al detail of police was necessary to preserve order at the house and also at the grave.
 Esrcole Infusino, father of Ferdinando Infusino, the murdered boy, resents the imputation that he told his little daughter Fannie not to tell who did the shooting. With all vehemence at his command, Infusino today declared that the statement of the police was untrue; that he said nothing to Fannie about keeping silent.