Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-08
FOUR ARRESTS MADE,
MEN HELD UNDER SUSPICION
OF Having Murdered w. M. Rice in
Cleveland Last August.

Pittsburg, Oct. = detective agen-
cy here announced tonight that four
arrests We're made in Brooklyn. n.
Y, this afternoon in connection with
the murder of w NJ. Rice in Cleve-
land, o., August ). last. The arrests
were made by Frank Dimaio, super
intendent of the agency. in a raid on
a house at 231 Fourth avenue. ac-
cording to the information given out
here The prisoners are held in Brook
lyn under suspicion and confessions
are expected soon. The prisoners are
Italians and gave the names Of Vim
zeno Scairabba Carlina SscairaDba
Mrs. Pelato and Pietro Fonacello Di-
maio is still in Brooklyn and further
information here is not availc he
New York Oct. 1.-The police Of
Brooklyn claim to be absolutely in the
dark in regard to arrests made there
today by Frank Dinlaio superintend-
ent of a Pittsburg detective agency in
connection with the murder of w. NJ.
Rice, a prominent Cleveland, Ohio,
lawyer. Dimaio. according to Captain
Coughlan, in charge of the Brooklyn
detective bureau, called oh him today
and asked for assistance to arrest GER
tain fugitives from justfce in Ohio. He
Sa id the persons wanted were connect
ed with a gang which had. trroriZed
;eastern Ohio and western Penns Eva
MIA by "strong arm methods. Five
We're assigned to help him,
and after a time they brought in two
prisoners who are booked in the police
records as Peitro Tomaselo and Jo-
spehine E'rusirone. Tomasello is charg-
ed with holding up Anna Padova in
Cleveland last August at the point Of
a knife and robbing her of a consid
cradle sum. Tile woman is charged
with having obtained goods from
Cleveland merchants in a manner that
caused larceny charges to be filed.
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whom he wanted held as suspect, but
Captain Coughlan, after hearing Di-
maio'S story, refused to book the man.
Captain Coughlan then bluntly ask
ed Dimaio if his work of the day was
in connection with Il murder case, and
Dimaio evasively replied that ''it might
lead up to murder case
EIe then left with tho man he had
brought in and said he was going to
hunt for others. This was before the
report came that he had wired his bu-
reau that he had made four arrests in
connection with the Rice case. Up to
late hour Dinlaio had not returned to
police headquarters.
New Ycrlx. Oct. Samuel b. Diehi.
general manager OF the detective agen-
cy with which Dinlaio is connected.
was reached b. telephone at his home
in Brooklyn tonight.
When asked if Diinaio had made ar
he replied:
NO, no. there's a mixup. The Cleve-
land newspapers made the same mis-
take this morning.
He said he would have known if the
arrests We're made IN connection with
the Cleveland murder case.
Pittsburg Oct. 7.-OliVer II. Hat.
field, assistant to Dinaio in the detec-
tive business, said that his chief had
been summoned to Cleveland shortly
after the Rice murder, and had been
working on that case in connection
with alleged Black Hand crimes in
Ohio and western PENNSYLVANIA. He
insisted that the men, of whose arrest
he had been notified by his chief, had
been followed to Brooklyn by Dimaio,
and that Mrs. Peleto left Cleveland two
days ago. going to the Brooklyn house
where she lived with the men.
Hatfield said he expe9ted important
developments tomorrow.