New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-30
ATTEMPTED MURDER,
POLICE NOW THINK
Man Shot in Head Near Barbuto
Home Denies That He Tried
to Commit Suicide.
MURDERED GIRL BURIED
Tears and Prayers at Her
Funeral-Family Declines to
Give Information to Police
$1,000 Reward.

Through their investigation Of the MUIR
der Of -year-old Mary Barbuto' OF
No. 81 Union street. Brooklyn, the ponce
may have stumbled across an attempted
murder At midnight Saturday. after the
childs body had been Identified. an ltai-
ian in the neghborhood received n oulet
I'm his head and was removed to the Long
Island College Hospital
on reaching the hospital the man re-
gained consciousness and gave his name
as Andrea Derraro, twenty-five years Oh
of No 81 Columbia street He tried 10
explain his wound by telling a story OF
how he had held a revolver in his right
hand, when the gun suddenly discharged
and a bullet struck him in the head, ana
denied that he had tried to commit sui
eide The missile was lodged behind his
left ear.
Physicians who examined the man de-
clared II was absolutely impossible that
the accident happened az the man de-
scribed 1t. because there was no position
Imaginable in which he could have
wounded himself accidentally behind the
left ear by holding the gun In his right
hand.
Derraro was kept under arrest on
charge OF attempted suicide, and this
morning little Rosa. who saw man with
the Barbuto girl on Wednesday. VIII Do
brought to the hospital TO see II she can
Identify Derraro as the dead girls com
panion on that day.
The police have pretty well mapped out
his dongs since the disappearance from
her home OF the little girl last Wednes-
day morning. and now think that he not
only did not have anything to do with the
girls murder. but that some one, perhaps
the same one who killed the child. tried
to take his life.
Detectives are working under great
difficulties, as the childs parents have
decided, either through ignorance or
threats. TO say nothing to help N The
search for the murderer. While Detective
Michael Meali was yalny endeavorinS
to get some information from the father
yesterday, AnnunzIata. Msry's six-year-
old sister. ran up and said in Italian:
That man was just talking to me. lie
Is trying to get me into trouble. | did
what you told me. and did not say any
thing"
In consequence the police have turned
to the friends OF the family. one Is NJ.
Sabitino VINO has a saloon at No. -
Union street He knew the iii" girl well
and has offered $3.50 as reward FOR the
discovery Of her murderer.
only the day she disappeared" he
4 taIk IN hpr
about "A picnic She left me with a song
on her lips. ! never saw her again.
Joseph COrvia. OF No. 81 Union street,
saw the girl playing on the dock at
Dcgraw street. at II o'clock Wednesday
morning. and told her 10 90 home. as he
knew she was not allowed on the water
front She said she would go. and few
moments later disappeared.
Acting Captain Coughlin. Of the Brook
Ign Detective Bureau, and his men are
now on tho trail Of a boy, said 10 be
about nineteen years old, who was init
mate with the Barbuto family. He has
not been seen for several days. The
ncighbors have number OF tales 10 tell
about him.
one is that a few days before her muir
der Mar ran to her mother with the
story that the young man had said things
To her that made her afraid OF him.
Coroncr's Physicians Wucst and Pabst,
who performed an autopsy upon tho
childs body 81 the Morgue Sunday morn
ing. say that they believe that the girl
had been misuscd before Der death and
that her assailant was probably a youth.
The police hope to find the underSar-
ment from which the strip OF linen was
torn which was TANNED down the child s
throat. They say also that an initial was
torn from the corner Of the blue and
white bandanna handkerchief that was
found in the chId's mouth.
Mary Barbuto's funeral was held yes
terday afternoon at the Roman Catholic
Church of the Sacred Heart OF Jesus
and Mary, Degraw and Hicks streets.
Father NOgel. rector of the church, Of
lriat d. When the coffin was carried to
the hearsc To be borne To the Holy Cross
Cemetery many women and children in
the waiting crowd dropped TO their knees
and wcpt and prayed.
The police said yesterday that they
hoped to make an arrest I'm IN" case
within twcnty-fOur hours.
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