Connecticut western news., 1910-08-25

In the justice court at North Canaan Wednesday morning, before Justice w. Ford, Bert Bondi and Paul Bendotti were held in $2,000 for the superior criminal court, at Litchfield, the first Tuesday in October, and in default of bail will be taken to the county jail there to remain until brought to trial on the charges. of assault, carrying con- cealed weapons and assault with intent to murder.
 The case is one that grew out of 8 period of unfriendliness that for the past two or three years has existed between the prisoners aud their victims, neither of the latter were able to appear in court, hence their story of the occurrence is known only through witnesses who testified at the hearing.
 Both of the accused men were in North Canann late Monday afternoon and appeared at the office of Clinton Roraback and wanted advice regarding a grieviance they had with one Azzo Gondelli, who, they said had slapped one of them in the face. At first they talked of having him arrested, then, finally decided that they had better kill him. One of the accused said that he would shoot Gondelli. He was told by MT Rorabaok that to do such a deed would result in life imprisonment for him if not worse. He remarked that he didn't care; that he had just as soon serve life sentence as not to get square with the enemy.
 Both men worked at the East Canaan Lime works and had been drinking, the elder of the two, was quite intoxicated. On leaving the lawyers office both went to Fuller's hardware store and bought cheap Hopkins 6 Allen 32 caliber revolver which they proceeded to load then and there, from box of cartr idges they had bought with it. An IXL six inche blade, Bowie pointed pocket knife was also bought by one of them.
 Leaving the store, both armed, they went to bar room where Azzo Gondelli had previously entered and there one of the twain told Gondelli that if he would step outside he would, fight him. Con- delIi declined and saw no more of them until later in the day when he noticed them going over the hill toward his house.
 The day previous he had met both men on the highway and one of them had spoken disparagingly and ipsultingly of him and he slapped the mans face. The fellow threatened to get even and Gondelli thought that when they tried to entice him over the bar room it was for that purpose and to avoid trouble he declined to go.
 Later that night he heard revolver shot, up the road beyond his house. Go ing to investi gate, he discovered his brother, Abondio Gondelli, staggering toward him injured, and was told by the brother that he had been badly stabbed. He helped his brother home and sent at once for Dr Adams who came and dressed the wound. Gondelli suffered severe loss of blood, and so bad was the hemmorrhage that sawdust had to be scattered over the floor of the room to prevent the physician becoming soiled with the pools of blood which stained the floor. pr Adams found on the mau knife cut in the right thigh, three inches long, and of unknown depth, and cut on the left arm. Danger is from infection and blood poisoning. The wound on the thigh is regarded as dan- gerous.
 Hardly had Gondelli entered his home than his brother-in-law, Cognini Petro came in and said that he too, was