The evening world., 1912-07-30
Man FOUND SHOT
MAY GIVE CLUE TO
CH|LD'S STRANGER
Detectives Find New Angle in
Killing of Little Barbuto
Girl.
NOW OFFER A REWARD.
Doctors Say Bullet Victim
Gould Not Have Fired His
Own Pistol.
NOW OFFER A REWARD.

After having va!nly secured the neigh
borhood for clues the dctectives who are
trying TO trace the murderer OF eight
year-oid Marie Bsrbuto OF No. 81 Union
street turned to-day TO a reconsideration
OF a possible al sic which they had
ignored yesterday as valueless. They
centred their inquiry about Andrew
Derraro. the vagrant who was taken TO
Long Island College Hospital on Sat
urday a few hours after the body OF the
little Barbuto girl was recovered from
Buttermilk Channel on Saturday.
Derraro was found in hb lodgings at
No. 80 Union street. only q few doors
away from the tenement where Marie
Barbu,o lived. with a bullet wound be-
hind his left ear. lie told the police
man who was called into the house
when he was discovered lying wounded
on his bed that he had attempted TO
take his oEn life because he was
sufferer frtsn tuberculosis and was out
Of work. At first his story was ac-
cepted at face value.
But p rsistent questioning on the part
OF Supt Shaw OF the hospital and Cor
oner's Physician Pabst, who had charge
OF the Barbuto case. drew such widely
conflicting stories from the man that
the detectives began TO attach slgnlfl-
canoe to what they had at first dis
missed as irrelevant. The hospital ply
sicians declared to-day that II would
have been impossible for Derraro TO
have shot himself In the place where
the bullet lodged. The wound must
have been inflicted. they agreed. at the
hand OF another
ADMITS he WAS NEAR At TIME
OF MURDER.
Then the patient himself weakened
on the story Of attempted suicide and
said that he had shot himself accident
ally. lie also added the admission that
he had been In the saloons about the
nelEhborhood OF the Barbuto home OH
Saturday afternoon when the body OF
the child who had been sufrocatsd At
the hand OF some hend was brought up
from tho bay. lie had shot himself
when ne was intoxicated and remem-
bers nothipg OF how It happened was
still another version which the prisoner
patient gave. lie also said that he was
4 single man and. again. that he was
married and that his wife would soon
return frog Italy.
oince II was learned yesterday that
two weeks and more before she disap.
reared the Barbuto child ran home. one
day. In terror and told her father that
man had pursued her on the street
and that the father went out TO inves-
tigate the child's story at that time.
the police ban toward the theory that
through some of the secret channels Of
vengeance which are 80 common in
South Brooklyn. suspicion pointed In
stantly 10 Derraro on Saturday and tha t
somebody attempted to kill him.
Whether or not Marie's father was
coonixant Of this attempted vengeance.
n such II was. the detectives have not
been able to discover. Barbuto has fol-
loWod the common trait Of his people
In maintaining an attitude OF reticence
under police questioning.
MEN RAISE eAoo TO OFFER a.
A REWARD.
Last night about $50 men OF Union
street gathered In Mike Sahatlno's ga
io0n, which IL only two doors removed
from the tenement where little Marie
Baybuto lived. and there discussed ways
ana means % assisting the detectives to
run down the chlld's murderer. A con-
siderable sim OF money. between $500
ana sioo. was pledged as q reward for
the, one who should apprehend the man