The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-18

Wuliamstown. Dec 1S.-An Italian
who seemed to be acting suspiciously
was taken into custody yesterday
morning at about o'clock at the
Boston and Maine railroad station by
North Adams officers, and was detaln-
ed al North Adams until officers from
Troy. n. Y. might see him to deter
mine il he is the man wanted in con
nection with the murder OF Tour
members OF the Morner family in De
Freestyille. n. Y, last week. The
man was still at the North Adams
notice station last night awaiting the
arrival of the New York officers
lie appeared ct the depot about
o'clock. and attracted the attention
of the telegraph operator Orlando
n Ramsdall. He was wet and APP
uarently exhausted. and went MO lne
depot to get rest When asked 10y
thc operator where he was going ne
repiial Nowhere" lie readily ace
centod am invitation 90 remain no me
depot The operator. suspicious OF
him. telaphoued 20 North Adams Tor
description of the man wanted ior
the murder. and 10 seemed to taily
with the suspect, except for tne cloth-
inc The man In the depot even had
n scar under the chin as given ia the
description sent out by the Troy a.
/ W. officers. The operator told the
North Adams officers OF his SUSPECT
ons Cant. Jerren and another oih-
Ger hastened TO Willamstown anu
took the man into custody.
The man had little or nothing TO
say. He was able TO speak but O IT.
= lie ENGLISH and simply denied that he
was the man wanted. He appeared
perfectly willing TO so with the OIL
GERS and was apparently little con
cerned. After his detention the Off
GERS communicated with the Troy po-
lice and IL was agreed 10 hold the
man until officers from Troy could
see him. Upon being questioned by
the police the man said that he had
walked from McChanicville, " Y. AZ
Grst pc said that his name was Char
les AM, but later said IL was Antonio
Cerato Although admitting that he
had been in Troy recently, he denied
that he was In Albany. During the
questioning he IS said TO have made
several conflicting statements. OH
GERS from Troy and Hudson, n. y,
had been in the vicinity since Satur-
day in the belief that Donate might
90 that way.
The last scene In the tragedy took
place Yesterday when the bodies OF
Mrs. Mary Morner. her son, Arthur,
and her two daughters. Blanche and
Edith who were murdered Tuesday
noon. presumably by an Italian farm
hand employed by them, were laid at
rest side by side In the little GENE.
terry at De Freestville. Although the
hour of the funeral was 10 o'clock II
was scarcely daylight when people
began arriving at the farm house. BY
ten o'clock every road leading TO the
scene Of the murder was congested
with pedestrians and with automo
bles and other vehicles OF all kinds
BY 1880 over 5000 persons were
about the house or morbidly explor
ing the barn where the bodies were
found Wednesday night Many Of
the crowd brought lunches with
them and the scene took on the ap
pearonce OF flrmers' picnic. JusI
before 1880 the undertaken appeared
at the front door of the cottage which
had been kept securely locked ans
announced thni ri who wished nigh
view the bodies There was vii,
rush at once but Sheriff Cottrell wa.
there with several deputies, and com
PEELED the spectators to line up in an
orderly manner pass by the coffin
and out through the rear door Tn,
, bodies we're In the parlor. There wal