Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-08-05
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS
SEARCH FOR MURDERER.
OFFICERS Thought Louis Restell, Who Shot
Six Persons in quincy, Mass, Was on
Conductor Grlffn's Train.


Six Persons in quincy, Mass, Was on
Conductor erftin's Train.
Louis Resteli of quincy, Mass, an Ital-
ian granite contractor who was thought
to have been crazed by business reverses
and heavy drinking, shot and killed
two persons and wounded four
others Friday afternoon, and since
then he has been hunted by the police
Of Massachusetts and Vermont, being
known in both states. Restelli, who is
IS years old first shot his mother in the
kitchen of her home. Papers found there
indicate that she was to let him have $3.50
in exchange for a note and that when he
offered the note she declined to draw the
money from the bank. Within half an
hour Restelli had fatally shot Henry e.
HaIdwick, a quarry owner, and wounded
Gaspare Restelli, his brother William NJ.
Adrian, Gaspare Resteli's clerk, c. Il.
Hardwick, brother of Henry, and Benja-
min Bishop, proprietor of a stone shed.
He eluded the police and that evening
a man thought to have been Restelli
boarded a train at Boston, presented
mileage book and said he wanted to go to
Rutland. He was taken to Rutland,
Mass, and on his arrival there he seemed
much displeased, having intended to go
to Rutland, Vt He continued on to
Northampton, where he left the train.
Later mileage from the same book was
found in the Boston and Maine auditors
Office showing that the person went that
night to Springfield, Mass.
Conductor James Griffin of the White
Mountain express, who is well known in
this region, having run as brakeman and
conductor many years, and who lived for
a time at the Brooks House. was shown
photographs of Restelli Monday and he
said he was sure the murderer was pas
senger with another Italian on his train
early Saturday morning from Springfield
through Brattleboro to Bellows Falls.
They had tickets for Chester. In North
ampton the man thought to be Resteli
asked II a Rutland mileage was good on
the 10 miles of Central Vermont track
between South Vernon and Brattleboro.
The first train for Rutland, after the
White Mountain train north, leaves Bel
lows Falls at a. m in charge of Con-
ductor George Aldrich. Mr.. Aldrich says
two Italians boarded the train at Bellows
Falls Saturday morning and presented
tickets for Chester. His description of
one fitted Restelli. He said that at Ches-
ter one of them bought tickets for both to
Gassetts. 1t could not be learned that
they went by rail beyond Gassetts. The
Quincy chief of police telephoned Chief
Ellsworth of Rutland Monday that Res
tell had been seen in Bennington and was
on his way to Rutland.
The theory that Restelli and another
Italian were passengers on Conductor
Grifin's train was exploded Tuesday,
when Deputy Sheriff Pascal Ricci of Rut-
land and Deputy Sheriff Mcdonald of
Ludlow found two men whom Conductor
Griffin and several others though were
Italians. They were farmers living near
Gassetts. One reason why the officers
thought Restelli might come to Vermont
was that he worked in this state a few
years ago. Anarchists drove him from
Barre because he disclosed certain Sc