New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-24

the Derby Road to a point beyond
Peck's Mil bridge, drinking freely and
getting hilarious as they went along.
They were all seemingly friendly
enough, he said, and he suspected
nothing Of what was intended. Sitting
behind Hall &as James Matteo.
Halls narrative was continued by
Matteo, who said that just beyond the
bridge one of the men on the seat be-
hind him tapped him on the shoulder
and told him to stop the car.
Sent Chauffeur Up Road.
IL never knew Buonomo," Matteo told
the police, but ] knew the other men.
l did not know what they were going
to do and don't know why they did do
1t. When they told me 10 stop l told
the chauffeur. After we all got out he
drove up the road.
II was standing by the side Of the
road with my back to the others when
heard the shots. Then / became
afraid and ran away. That is all /
know about It. Only one man fired all
the shots-fve, think. That was Blu
onomo."
Hail. in continuing his own story,
said he obeycd the commands of one Of
the men and drove his car for a short
| distance along the road. While stand
| ing there he heard the shots. He
! looked back and saw the woman lying
| In the road and the five men running
away. Fearful lest he himself be shot,
and realizing that murder had proba-
| bly, been committed, he put on all speed
10 the nearest house from which he
could spread the alarm to the police by
| telephone.
Others passing along found the body
| lying in the road and also sent out the
alarm, and soon the countryside was
swarming with city and state police,
who came upon some OF the men as
they were running away from the
scene. Those who were arrested we're
Buonomo, Pizzichemi and Matteo.
Andrew Mosci and jimmy Lewis
are still at large, and an alarm has
been sent out for their arrest through
out the state and neighborlng terri
| tory. II was reported from various
| quarters that they had been caught
hut I'D 10 n late hour tonight the local
police have heard nothing Of them.
Second Pistol Found.
,,,,s found anv
Of the men arrested except Buonomo'
who carried 12-inch army pistol .6S-
calibre. a search this morning near the
scene Of the shooting brought to lisht
a second pistol Of the same caliore'
loaded with fat-nosed bullets
Bullets Of the same kind were in the
pistol found on Buonomo. According
10 Matteo. after Buonomo emptied MS
revolver into the woman's head ne
| calmly asked for more cartridges ana
reloaded his weapon before he ran
away. Matteo said he himself handed
him the bullets, but denied that tire
pistol found lying by the roadside was
| his
A fourth man was taken into custody
to-day by the police. He gave MS
name as Salvatore Renaldi, COOK IN
tho restaurant at No. AL Water street
where the woman ate her supper yes
terday His apprehension resulted
from information which the three pris-
oners gave the police, but Renaldi
denied that he knew anything about
the affair. He Is being held as a pos
sible material witness.
The police believe that the drunken
ness was carefully prepared by the
murderers 10 hide the real motive for
their crime should they be arrested
Buonomo said he formerly conducted
a coffee house with his brother In Hath
street in New York.
Among the dead woman's effects
were a number Of names. One OF these
was Rose White, but the police were
unable TO determine whether that was
| q name the woman used as her own, or
whether II was that Of another person.
Late tonight fifth arrest was
made. An Italian, who IL Is thought
might know something Of the crime
being apprehended. He gave the name
OF Flea MAESTRO, and said ire was a
laborer. About nightfall he entered
the home OF Rose Bernardo on the
Woodend Road, near Stratford, and
grabbed her by the throat The woman,
who was peeling potatoes at the time
fought him off with her knife, slashing
his face. He broke away from her, and,
Selling a revolver lying on table, es-
capped through the open door and dis
appeared in the woods near by.
Posses which were securing the vicin-
ity of the crime pursued him, and final
ly arrested him in Bridgeport
by Telegraph to The Tribune
Chicago, Oct. 23.-The girl found
murdered near Stratford, Conn, was
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