New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
WOMAN'S BODY IN POND
Mysterious Murder Discovered
at Georgetown, Conn.
STILETT0 USED TO KILL
Police Believe Victim Was
Slain by Italians for Giving
Authorities Information.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

[By Telegraph to The Tribune
Georgetown, Conn. Nov. s.-Wrspped
in a sheet and pieces Of burlap, the body
Of an italian woman was discovered here
to-day floating on the surface Of a mill
pond. Upon examination It was found
that It was covered with deep wounds,
several entering into the brain.
DR.. Ernest II. Smith, Of Redding, the
medical examiner declared that the
wounds had been inflicted with stiletto,
AS they all were small, round and deep.
The body practically was beyond the stage
of Identification. DR.. Smith said it must
have been in the water at least two weeks.
A loose end of the rope with which the
body had been tied was hanging down,
indicating, II was thought, that weight
had been used TO keep the body under
water
Captain Thomas Hunt, Of Norwalk,
Conn, said that the police of the vicinity
had not been notified Of the disappear
ance of any woman living in nearby dis
,tricts, and that therefore he agreed with
DIR. Smith that the body must have been
brought from some distance for the pur-
pose Of doing away with IT, There was
no doubt that the woman was OF Italian
origin, Captain Hunt said, and the sus-
picion OF the police was directed toward
gangs Of Italian laborers from New York
who had been at work lately on roads in
A. ~ ~ nd
The body of the murdered woman was
clothed in a night robe and white skirt.
Her head was wrapped In mans under
shirt and neither garment. The only
marks found on the articles In which the
body was wrapped were the initials
&c. D. c." embroidered In red on the
sheet.
The dead woman was about FIVE feet
tail had dark hair and complexion, and
appeared to have been about thirty-five
years old,
The body was discovered this morning
by a workman who passed the pond on
his way to the factory. The police Of all
neighboring towns have been notified, and
search for a missing woman begun.
The authorities believe that the woman
was slain because she had betrayed the
secrets Of some one, and are working
with the idea that she may have been
another victim of white slave" traders,
as was Jennie Rotendo, who was shot to
death on a. lonely road near Bridgeport
three weeks ago because she had told
''wnite slave" secrets to detectives In CHI
cago.
DR. Smith made an autopsy on the BODY
this afternoon, and said that either OF
two wounds in the woman's temples would
have killed her instantly. There was an
other stlletto wound through the neck
and one through the left arm. plain
\ gold band, apparently a wedding ring re-
manned on the left hand, and suspended
from her neck was a scapuiar.
A bridge supporting the tracks OF inc
Danbury & Norwalk branch OF the Ne"
York, New Haven e. Hartford haiiroao
spans one end OF the pond, and the 'ne-
DRY is that the body was thrown INTO tne
water from the bridge.
Two weeks ago the state police raioeu
the establishments Of twenty Illicit liquor
sailers AT Ridgefeld, made many arrests
and collected $500 in fines from the pris-
oners, most OF whom were Italians froS.
eeuting Attorney Norman I. Beers VI
Danbury who conducted the liquor prose,
cutions, began an investigation to-nisht
upon the theory that the woman mieh'
have been murdered because she was sus-
pected Of giving the authorities iniorma-
ton about violations OF the liquor laws.
The initials &c. d. c." upon the shee'
are the same as those OF one OF the men
a rrSa4ad In the 1intfOr raids.