The sun., 1910-05-23
MUTILATVD BODY IN WOODS
ITALIAN WITH NOSE cut OFF
AND FACE SLASHED

Found Back Of Flalbush-The ClothiRg
Dry. hut the Ground Wet-Ths Victim
. small NIan and YOung-CISthed
hut BhOeless One Arrest Made.
Two young men. Pred and Hampton
Address. brothers. living at 7is East
Thirty-fifth street. Brooklyn. telephOned
the lieutenant at the Snyder avenue
police station In Flatbush last night that
there was the body Of a man. evidently
an Italian. lying in the Paerdegat woods,
back Of the FlAtbush water works. The
young men had stumbled upon the body
as they were returning home from a walk.
The body was that Of an Italian. say 70
years old. feet inches high. and weigh
ing about $50 pounds. The sack suit was
steel gray In color. The man wore no
shoes. his feet being covered only by
bright purple socks. There was a white
silk handkerchief around the neck In lieu
Of collar.
The face was badly cut. The nose had
been sliced OH and there were stab wounds
in both cheeks. the throat and In the alb
domen. Although the ground where the
body was found was still vet from the
rain the body and its clothing were dry,
indicating that Il had been placed where
Il was found but a short time before.
Capt. Francis c. Cramer Of the Snyder
avenus station cent Policeman Richard
Owens 10 the woods to investigate.
Owens telephoDed back that there was
a body there all night and a patrol wagon
was ssht 70 bring IL 10 the station house.
The place at which the body was found
is within a stones throw oG the spot where
the murdarers Of Mrs. StabeF were found
and IL half a mile or 20 from the Holy
Cross Cemetery. A block and half away
Is a shed which at present shelters a
number Of labOrers, some Of whom are
Italians
DR.. Flannigan. who came from the
Kings County Hospital. found in the mans
pocket a watch which was still going.
Dr.. Flahnigan said that the man had not
been dead. he thought. more than three
hours.
TIE right cheek was slaahed and almost
completely severed from the bone. Two
wounds were found in the throat and four
in the a domen. The fingers Of the right
hand were cut 20 the bone. a. II the man
had clhtched the blade Of knife.
Under the body tho police found a
long butcher knife which had been
ground down 70 a slender blade with a
very sharp edge and sharp point.
Detective Tony Vaohris. ono of the men
whom PetrosinO trained In the work of
the directive bureau. got 10 the place At
e:sO O'Clock. just a. he was entering the
woods hs met an Italian coming out.
vAohris arrested the man. who attempted
% pas.
In the prisoners pocket was q revolver
from which two Of the seven cartridges
had been exploded. LabOrers from the
shack near by said that they had heard
two shots fired in tho woods in the after
noon. but had not troubled themselves
about them.
Vachris put his prisoner into the patrol
Wagon with the body Of the dead Italian
and took him TO the Snyder avenue sta
ton. where he was met by Acting Capt
Coghlan. in charge % the Brooklyn homi-
eide bureau. Coghlan and Vachris be-
gan putting the man through q still eK-
animation. 10 his pockets they found two
railroad tickets from Newark 20 New
York One cf thoae was dated May Is
and the other yesterday.
The prisoner said hs was Giovanni
Ciparelli. that he was ~ years old and a
laborer living az south Orange. He said
that he was employed by Iuigi Bertti.
a contractor Of South Orange, and that
he was boarding with a man named
Antonia Cuppa. Tie had been In South
Orange Tor a week
Ciparelh said that he had JEFF his board
ing place In south Orange yesterday
morning at q O'Clock and took a trolley
car 10 Newark. and from there a train
10 New York. In explanation of the tickets
he said tho conductor had not taken the
tickets up on two trips.
slip u paper In tho pockets Of the
dead man had the telephone number
1921 Gresnpoint and the name p. Pa
tones.ello
The laborsrs we're sure about hearing
she shots In tho woods. but tho body of
the dead man showed no bullet wounds
From this tho dsteCtives are inclined 70
the belief that there may bs another body
-omss here in the woods.
PatonesellO was brought 10 the station
house. lie said that he ran a small stuss
game at Manhattan avenue and Frost
street now and then. but that he had
never sen the murdered man or tho
prisoner. PatOnesello brought along
with him a friend. Martino. MartinO
said that he thought the body was that
n a driver for Thomas Melio. a baker.
whose place Of business Il az Manhattan
avenue and Witherf street.