The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-16
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! NCOnI1nuGQ rom PaSG Oh6) ! In many respects the murder of Car me1lina Geracci is one of the most un- usual mysteries of the New York po- 1 lice department. The apparent abSo- l iute absence of motives, the first ele- rnent for which the police invariably turn in ferreting out murder mysteries has put the police completely at sea and beyond description of the miss ing party they have little on which tG base their investiga tionS.
 When, last Tuesday evening, Second Deputy Police Commissioner George & DDoluigherty Doliy of New York city and State were admitted into the flat they found unnfstakable proof that murder had been done.i
 The bedroom in which the crime was committed was quickly located. The bed was still disarranged. The mat tress, stained with blood had been left uncovered in the hurry of the murder CTS. Careful search of the room brought to view a number of heavy wire nails, about four inches long. Three of these were picked up stain ed with blood. Five others were found in the room, with no evidences of hay ing been used. There was hammer in the room but this, the police be- i lieve, had no part in the murder. h Everything about the condition of the room went to corroborate the theory advanced by The Farmer on discovery of the body. that the woman was slain in bed, that she flung her left arm up to ward off the blows. leI1C6 In6 GlAklcE WOuu0 PG06tTal4I4S clear through the arm, and that then she was done to death as the assassin drove the blows home into her brain.
 The condition of the woman's body: unattended, after the five days it had lain in the flat, became so intoIerab4e that the men felt the necessity of dis posing of it.. The dates fixed by the police are about as follows:
 The woman was murdered Saturday
 Trunk purchased Wednesday, Oct. 6.
 Body shipped from flat Thursday,
 Trunk containing body reached Branchville Friday. Oct 8.
 Men returned with girl to New York Saturday, Oct. g.
 Deserted flat Sunday Oct. 10.
 Carnellina Geracei was so far as her neighboTs can tell. a hard work to leave the little flat in E. 10th street every morning. accompanied by her daughter. to go to her daily en- daughter was delft with the needle and appeared deeply interested in the much affection between mother and child.
 The East 10th stresf flat was hired by the youngest of the three men, ed the place for his mother. his sis ter, and two boarders. Mrs. Preston recognized the applicant as a man who had formerly occupied room
  negotiations were made Oct. 22. The family moved in Oct. 23.
 Mrs. Preston says they talked al- most altogether in Italian, and she Knew nothing of what they said. The woman and daughter spoke English with difficulty. But the little flat fort that made her remark to other tenants on the desira bility of the new tenants
 Saturday night, Nov. 2, for the last time. On Monday she encountered the girl.
 Me don't know" was the reply in broken English. bad,'' explained one of the men. who chanced along and took part in the conversation The girl remained at attended and nnutilated corpse. from Monday until Thursday. So did the three men,
 Mrs. Preston regarded the oldest of the three men as the father of the murdered woman, though she is not sure that her surmise is correct. He yonnger was omm men. as she - reEarded G the man M who had rented the house for his mother and sister" as the husband of the wonaan; i.an h.; The third man was
 Karl KarIson discovered the mutt lated body, weighted with 9 stone and edloa py m the o gafeS or tory pond. early Saturday mor ming. The initials "G. C." appeared on sheets shrouding the body and on trunk clue was gained by the investi- gators, and they traced the trunk, as previously told in l+d The len Farm95, TT from vile. It was trundled on hand truck borrowed at the railroad sta tion, to the home of Joe Nicosst, tEe 1111 h nj 0f TRr-ar1 nfr. vile.
 From Carlo Sorro, a boarder in the yellow house, came information that His story goes that one of the visit ors worked on the state road con- struction in Branchville early this year and that there was much sur prised when the laborers recognized the road employe. fellow boarder during his brief stay in Branchville.
 What are you doing here?' asked one of the roomers.
 'I came up on business, replied the young man-the man whom Mrs Preston regarded as husband of the
 There had been some talk among the road 1aborers that the man was soon to be married when he went
 Did you get married?" aueried sorro. was the reply.
 Then, indicating Lom bardo, he said he was his father-in-law.
 They talked about various topics, for some time, when Sorro bethought himself to inquire for the visitors 
 i've got a trunk" said he.
 '-Where is il?
 sIn the back yard; it was too big to bring in
 He indicated where the trunk was.
 It was after o'clock that the wo- man visitor, who did most of the leaving Lornbardo a silent listener, said he had changed his mind. s+I'xe decided not to stay here; I'm going back to New York he said. He and Lombardo set out to the back yard, and stumbling through the darkness with the massive trunk be- twen them, climbed down set or