The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-23
MYSTERY OF
Her MURDER
Assassination of Rose sunnls May
be Traced to Chicago and Con-
neeted With Vice
Crusade.
LURED INTO COUNTRY
Card of Head Of Law and Order
League Was Found In the
Pocketbook Of Slain
Woman.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Oct. 23.-Ths,
finding of the card OF Mrs. ALICE
Phillips Aldrich. head OF the Chicaga
Law and Order League and the chief
figure In the prosecution OF Jack
Johnson, the negro pugilist in Chica-
go, for his abduction OF Lucille Cam
eron, In the pocketbook Of Rose Bun
nfs. mysteriously murdered On thed
highway last night, stirred the police
to renewed activity in the case today.l
Whether there :. j. direct connec-
tion between this murder On the lone
ly road between Stratford and She'll
ton, where woman, dressed in mostt
expensive fashion and prepossessing,i
was shot to death alongside of thei
Putney cemetery to which she hadf
been decoyed In taxicab by fivea
men. and the Johnson scandal in Chill
cago cannot be determined until thei
police hear from that city.
But score of police and detectivesI
are working today to trace everys
movement OF this woman and there is3
not the slightest doubt in the mindsi
VI tiAy VA IhSm tnbL LAc lAutuGE9 OLA
this woman was planned In Chicago.
If not connected with the Johnsoni
case, there seems little doubt that thei
dead woman was in some way mixed
| up In the recent vice crusade which
scandalized all Chicago and led to
many sensational raids In the levee
| district.
4 The three men under arrest for the
\ murder who were caught after a
| cross-country chase by posse that
| led through swamps and over hills
James Mattio, Frank Piscella and 81,
Bownonius- positively refuse ,.l,ay
Ito talk at all. The other -wo men
who We're In taxicab in which the
woman was taken from Stratford are
/ still at large, but good descriptions of
them are in the hands OF the police.
1t is supposed they fled to New York
and the police Of that city havo been
asked to watch for the fugitives.
IL the dead woman was not mixed
up In the white slave traffic In some
manner, the authorities say they will
/ have hard time proving a motive
fo- 1t was at first suggested that the
affair was the direct outcome of
drunken orgy, but this seemed to be
disproved by the manner in which the
woman was taken to the lonely road
side where she was done to death.
| Mattio has been resident OF this
city for six months and Piscella is the
proprietor of restaurant ON Union
street, but nothing is known about
Bownonius. He came to this city
yesterday and the police are trying
| today to get line on where he came
from.
| The men will be held pending the
coroner's inquest.
Her Husband confesses.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oct. 23--Un-
der pressure of the third degree in the
police tsation today, Joseph Buonon-
mo, who said that he lived at 101
West 21nd street, Chicago, confessed
to the police that he murdered the
4 ly spot on the outskirts of Stratfor6
last night He said that the woman
was his wife and that they had come
from Chicago yesterday.
/ 1t Is believed by the police that the
other two men under arrest will make
complete confessions later In the day.
According to Buonomo the two men
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