The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-10
BLACK BAND ON HIS SLEEVE
HEIPED DETECTIVES To FIND
RICE VI RIDER ~ SPECT.
woman Who HAD Keen Robbed Set Them
on the Track Of Don Pietro. Reput~d
Leader Of italian Gang That MAY
Have Killed the Gle, Gland Lawy er.

| Have Killed the Gle, ~tand Lawy er.
Pinkarton detectives said last night
that William Lowe Rice. the Cleveland
lawyer who was murdered on August
5 last on the highway IN front Of his coun-
try home. met his death while irving TO
interfere with a gang 81 Sicilians who
had just stolen lo' 81 chickens from
the Palmer place .adj joining Rice sand were
| escaping with their booty. The chickens
we're for the celebration Of the feast
~ san Giuseppe ON sunday. two days
after the murder
! 1t is asserted that Pictro Tomasallo.
: who is in tho Raymond street jail IN Brook
l Ign awaiting eNtradltion under S5.GN
| bail on a MINOR charge, Is better known
I IN the Italian colony 81 Fast Cleveland
! a. Don Petro Rlco was shot with
rs callbrs revolver and the bullet was
Of soft Iead When Toma-eilo was ar
rested he carried 81 cahbre revolver
loaded with several bullets Of soft had
Anna Padova 81 Blue Stone. near Clevc-
( land. de~crtt-.i 20 the PkInerton- just
what happened on August II when ths
| Italians who had visited her place the
day h-for" and had s.Nen one - her guests
displaying money and J~We,ry returned
and stoi. SIS worth of stun from her
house I'll. robbers demanded 10 know
the whereabouts 81 'h- guest who had
displayed the money SI- r"fI-a -
/ tell them ~" was thrown upon the
floor and Threatened with knives aud
revolver- Sh- -av- sha remembers very
we'll the face - the man who stood over
her with a diTN IA n.- hand n" wore a
black MORNING band on h.- sleeve
She escaped - ~. road and when The
robbers tired to TAXI her back 10 ~" hou-..
sh. made an outrry ley cat across
country toward the Italian colony IN Past
cleveland she says.
The police got the idea that these r,h-
bers had had something 20 do with The
murder 81 Rice. SiCiiian deteCtIvs-- We're
ASST ned 20 the Italian quarter IA Fast
Cley Gland To mIngle with their country
men and learn what they could They
found 80 they reportei. that the leader ~
, had SIcilain- was Don Pistro. They dis
covered that Don PIetro'- mother had died
about a month bsfor" and that Don Pietro
was wearing mourning band around his
sleeve. description u Don tallis-i with
Anna Padova- description - the robb-r
When the DETECTIVES wer" satisfied that
Don Pietro was one uf the men they were
after they set about 10 trace him. All
Of his gang had hed. only their women
were left and they were close mouthed.
The detectives only hope lay with "A
woman sometimes named Josephine Fu--
cone at other tunes Mrs. Joseph Pelato
or Mrs Tony James. Most OF the gang
lived az this wornan's house in the colony
In Fast CIev Gland IL was alleged that she
had figured IN several robben ~ done
by a gang Of Italians. The detectives
shadow we'd her until she went away, They
found her in Brooklyn. She was keeping
a boarding house and Tomasello was
there when the police made their call.
Both were indicted by the Clev Gland Grand
Jury on September 10 in connection with
the robbery az Anna Padovas house.
The Pinkertons say they nave WV
ne.se- who Jaw III. gang near Ric"'s
home a short time befor. Rice was muir
dered
=. r. Dimaio. superintendent Of the
Pittsburg branch Of the Pink"rtonS. who
il in New York. was not willing last night
20 tAlk about the rice bags found near
the Rice home the night of the murder
II 10 understood that bags like those
were found ia the house in Fast Cleveland
~ the Italian robber who owned the
wagon and white horse Mr. Padova de-
scribed He was one Of Don Pletro =
gang. according Ia the Sicihan Pinker-
tons who were assigned 20 'h@ colony
a. avon as u was suspected that Italians
were Responsible for Mr.. Rlce'S death.
IL il alleged that Don PiSiro's gang
hal six or seven members. TOmasallO.
who was arrested in Brooklyn on Fri
! day. isn't quite Il Year, old. but he n
said TO TIE the leader.
/ According 80 tyPewritten statement
~ the Pinke w !. Rice. "A member
} 81 the we'll known law firm % BladOn.
Rice A Ginn Of Cleveland. left the Euclid
! club about iO.D p VI and on his way
i home met some Italians who had IN their
| po@session some bags. Upon demanding
! 10 know what was in same, and finding
B that they were going 20 escape him, he
arabl.-d hold Of one Of them and waS
severely cat in the hand and his coat
sleeve was slashed A. Mr. Rice was an
athlete. and the Italians finding ha Gas
/ getting the b.--t ~ them. on" Of them
otansd fir. on him and shot him over
the n Rht eye after which he fal IN the
/ roadway al the corner 81 Overlook and
I Euclid Heights avenues, where ha was
4 later discovered 10y passing AUTOMOBILE
iatH
/ As soon a. the Pink ertonS were assigned
| 20 the cas-. n circular was i-Stied offering
/ n reward 81 $1,000 for the arrest 81 the
/ murderer - Rice II was printed In Italian
and stipulated that no Pinkerton man
b could get the reward II either the man or
| the woman arrested in Brook lyn last
/ Friday turns ont 20 ~ a principal in the
case the policemsn Who made the arrest
win recsiVo th9 reward.