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the little center t4ble-the work of the
hands of a little brother, brother
whose body lies blackened and crisped.
In weeping, In shrieks and prayers,
the grief of the stricken mother and
sister at last spent itself, while the
little white hearse-it was not the body
who died farther down the street.
passed on
Somebody's baby gone. too" said the
mother, and in a moment of sympathy
reaved, the woman became more calm.
The story Of the 'red-headed man.
named Rodger," which Milano told the
police when taken into custody yester-
day, has also been disposed OF. Milano
said he had loaned the key TO his shop
to such a man Saturday night. The red
headed man is in reality a man named
Kelly, who lives on Seventh street
southwest, and who has not seen 'Milano
for more than two years.
Itaian Taunted.
The new witness found by the police
this morning is Joseph DiMarco. He
is an italian boy. seventeen years old.
snd lives with his parents, at 45S II
street northwest. He told Detective
Armstrong that about $50 o'clock Sat-
seated on a bread box outside OF the
grocery store across the street frorI
Tony's shop. He says he noticed and
remarked that Tony was excited. He
neighborhood had gibed and tauntei
the Italian until they had at last be-
come afraid of him.
While Armstrong was locating this
witness, Detective Jake Berman was
running down the mysterious woman in
yellow. He found her to be Miss Nellie
Radeloff, a niece of William Wivel, of
Hyattsville, Nd.
Boy Sent for Change.
She had not heard of the finding Of
the boys body until the detective visit
ed her today. She says that she has a
small collie dog which she wished to
sell, for she is about to leave this sec
ton. She declares that she took the
dog TO Schmid's store on Twelfth street
northwest to try to sell him, but that
Mr. Schmidt did not want the dog and
directed her to dealer named Hollis
on Louisiana avenue. Harry Smith
was in Schmidts store at the time
She asked him to lead the dog for
her, and they went together to Hollis.
There they could not dispose Of the
dog, and they walked back as far as
Fourth and II streets, where she de-
sired to telephone, and being unable
drug store, sent Harry Smith out to
get the change.
Harry Smith. the police found, went |
to several stores. Strangely enough, |
nobody to whom he applied was able |
to change the quarter. The strangest |
circumstance Of all was that one man |
to whom he applied for change could |
have broken the quarter, but says now |
that he was too lazy to get up and |
get the change" He did not, and the !
strange grim circumstances and |
tragic accident led the feet of the lit |
tie twelveyear-old boy, with the i'm |
pediment in his speech, over to Tony |
Melano's. ~
Traced to Shop.
The police trace him to the door Of
Tonys shop. They point out that chill
dren had been taunting whoever with
within. They argue that a man already |
enraged at repeated insults. might mis-
the struggles of an afflicted |
boy to speak for grimaces of insult and |
in an ungovernable rage strike, and |
strike harder than he intended. Then, |
they say, in the battered little lifeless |
body. tucked away out Of sight in a |
rear room to await the destroying |
agency of an incendiary's torch, the
chain Of grim circumstance and tragic
accident bore its fruit.