Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-15
HUNT WITNESSES
IN POLICE MURDER
Expect to Clear Up Staying of
Patr0lman McGOyern
Today.

PoAACC are OblpOIliu6 tilC y IlInenI
of the three men who are locked up
at the Second precinct charged with
the murder of Patrolman John ].
McGovern in front of the Webster
Street School Sunday night.
Captain John E.. Brown declares he
will have the whole case cleared up
before the end Of the day. There are
only one or two supposed witnesses of
the murder to be seen and some scat
tered shreds to be gathered in, and
the police say they will then be able
to bring thir prisoners before a magis-
trate.
Lieutenants Cordano. Kuhn and
Adubato, of the Detective Bureau,
started off early today In the police
department automobile to complete
the investigation. 1t may be that
the three men will be arraigned in
the Second Precinct Court late this
afternoon. Otherwise they will be
taken before Judge Herr tomorrow
morning.
The prisoners were put upon the
rack last night again and quizzed
until early morning. The police SAY
they have gotten a complete confess
sion from the three men. This differs
In no essential detail from the first
admission of guilt made yesterday
afternoon.
Salla Laferino, or Salvatore Luz
tinio. uncle of Raffaello Bellegero,
who is supposed to be the actual
murderer, stoutly maintained, how
ever, all during the grilling by the
police that he had not fired one shot
at McGovern from in front, as Belle
gero stated in his confession. LATER
mos %nephews, though, Bellegero and
Christine Lombardo, stick to their
first story-that the elder man shot
once at McGovern and that his was
the first shot fired. All three agree
in one particular. that young Lom-
barJo had M part in the actual kill
ing. He was merely a witness, the
prisoners declare, and ran away
through fear when he saw the police
man fall.
Several witnesses of the murder
called 1t the Second precinct last
night after working hours to identify
the three prisoners. Practically all
of them. the police say, pointed to
Bellegero as the nan who emptied
his magazine gun into McGovern's
back, and explained the part of his
uncle and cousin in the shooting in a
manner to jibe with their conmes-
SONS. One young woma looked at
Bellegero in a puzzled way.
"That looks like the man who shot
the policeman she said, but he
wore a hat al the time"
A policeman was sent to Bellegero's
lodgings at 73 Crane street and re-
turned with a light tan hat. This was
placed on the prisoners head and the
girl identified him Immediately.
From the stories of the prisoners
the police have been able to piece to-
gether what they believe to be an
account of the way in which the MUIR
der really happened
McGovern came upon Laferino and
his nephews in front of the school
and cautiously felt in the oldest mans
pockets. He felt a revolver and i'm
mediately placed him under arrest.
On the way down the street Nc
Govern is said to have told Laferino
he was a ringer for a man who was
mixed up in a shooting scrape some
months ago."
At this Laferino is said to have
broken away, drawn his revolver and
fired 1t at McGovern's breast. Then
Bellegero Is believed to have taken
out his magazine gun and blazed
away from the e
Arrange Funeral.
Arrangements for McGovern's fu-
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morning from the home of his father.
Thomas McGovern, 1856 South Orange
venue are in charge of Captain
Brown. A solemn high mass Of
requiem will be celebrated at st. Pat
rick's Cathedral at 8 o'clock and In
terment will be made in he Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery.
Captain Brown will the
ame of the pallbearers today. The
captain, Lieutenant Sonnick and Ser
geant Fitch will lead an escort OF
honor composed of members of squad
d of the Second precinct. of which
the dead officer was a member.
The police band will IA before
the funeral cortege to the cemetery.
Captain Brown today requested the
reporters at the Second Precinct to
make special mention of the good
work performed by the police who are
working on the case.
He mentioned Lieutenants Cordano,
Kuhn, Horter, Tenore and Adubato,
of the detective bureau; Plainclothes-
men Goodwin, Norton and Volk, of
the Second precinct, and Sergeant
Godfrey and Detective De Rogatis,
of the prosecutors staff.
The Second precinct station-house
was draped in crepe today and the
flag was placed at half-mast. While
the work was being done several
brass bands, hired by Italians living
in the neighborhood in which h
murder was committed, passed by
the station. The people of the sec
ton are celebrating the feast Of st.
Rocco today. 1t was brought to their
attention that parading past the sta
tion-house so soon after the death of
McGovern was in very bad taste and
the martial displays were made on
other streets thereafter.
Residents Of the section where the
three supposed murderers of McGov-
ern live are up in arms at some of
the general statements that have
been made regarding the sort of in
habitants the neighborhood has.