The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-12
MURDER TRUNK
VANISHED FROM
HOUSE NEAR POND
Consignee's Landlord Tells of
Two Strangers Who Fled
Before Dawn.
WIRE GIVES NEW CLUE.
Slain Woman Bound to Stone
With Material from Mill
at Branchville.
WIRE GIVES NEW CLUE.

Especial from Q Staff Correspondents Of IN,
! Evening World.
0EORGETOWN. Conn. Nov. 1a.--After
tracing to the house OF Joseph Narcossi.
In Branchville. the trunk in which the
body OF the murdered woman found in
the milpond near that village is be-
lieved to nave been shipped from New
YORK. state detectives discovered to-day
that the trunk had been In that house
Tor several hours and then disappeared.
Guiseppi Napoli. to whom the trunk
was consigned. lived in the house.
| The two mon who claimed the trunk
at Georgetown station Friday morning.
and were seem by more than q dozen
persons pushing II along tho Branch
Vide road on q borrowed hand truck.
were In the house that was scar ci,ed
to-day on Friday night. Lights were
seen flashing about tho mirpond near
so'clock that night. On Saturday morn
Ing the men and tho trunk they had
guarded had disappeared.
The hosrse stands alone on a hill above
the miilpond. Woods are behind Il; no
other houses are between It and the
edge OF the pond. Two men could carry
a heavy burden from house TO pond In
the dark. with little chance of detection.
STRANGERS SAID TRUNK HELD
EXTRACTS THEY WERE SELLING
The Italian mill hand who lives IN
this house reluctantly told to-day the
story Of how the trunk came to his
home. He said that on Friday after
| noon two of his countrymen, whom he
did not know and had not seen before.
pushed a hand-truck containing a big
trunk UP to his house and asked II they
| could hire q room. They said they were
selling bottles Of vanilla and other Ma.
voring syrups. The householder thought
that was what the big trunk contained.
They took the trunk to their room
late Friday afternoon. The householder
saw them again early In the evening.
That was the last he saw OF them.
When morning dawned. a few hours
before the womans body was found
| In the pond. dodgers and trunk were not
to be seen.
Another important Circumstance In
the mystery was disclosed to-day. An
VILE examined the wire rope which
bound the woman's body to stone and
said that It was 'unwoven wire"-that
Is. wire strands not yet twisted into
rope form. Such unfinished product
could not be bought in a store, ne said;
1t would have to come from q wire mill.
G. Napoll. the consignee to whom the
trunk was shipped from New York last
Thursday and who disappeared from
Branchville a week ago. had worked in
the galvanizing department OF the wire
mill and been discharged.
NAPoLI VANISHED TWO WEEKS
AGO, FELLOWS SAY.
Detectives Clinton A. Wood and Ralph
Michelli. sent up by Commissioner Waldo
to assist the Connecticut detectives in
their Investigations, examined many
Italian workers in the wire mill this
afternoon In an effort to find some one
who knew OF the recent movements of
Napoli. Many said that they had seen
the man about the village up to two
weeks ago. but none could recall having
seen him Friday or thereafter.
The Rev. Il. Il. Shortell. pastor of the
Church of the Sacred Heart at Ridge
field and OF the branch church OF the
same name In Branchville. viewed the
body OF the murdered woman this after
noon and said he could not recognize
her.
The state detectives consulted with
Mil Superintendent Miller as to the
| feasibility OF draining the m!llpond in
the belief that the weighted trunk might
be at the bottom OF the pond. Mr..
Miller said that the pond could be
drained without stopping the mill.
Georgetown Is a small place. nfty-four
miles northeast Of the Grand Central
station. Manhattan. 1t has a wire mill.
stone crusher, a general store and no
hotel. 1t was dry until last Election
day. Two thousand people. a large por-
ton Firms and Poles employed In the
mill. live here.
The fast trains on the Danbury
branch OF the New Haven Railroad,
skip Georgetown. but stop three-Quar-
ters of a mile up the track at Branch
Vile. place Of 800 Inhabitants. Branch
VILE II Georgetown's Little Italy" The
min pond lies between the two places.
1t IS tiny lake OF sluggish water,
varying In depth from three to thirty
feet. formed by the damming OF the
Norwalk River to furnish power for the
wire mill.
At the upper end OF the pond Is the
railroad bridge. while further over Is
the zig-xag public highway between
Georgetown and Branchville. alons
which two mysterious Italians trudged
ON Friday with the foreign made trunk