The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-30

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fine men were In GANG
The Woman Was Taken to the Sub
urbs of the City and Was Shot to
Death by One Of the Men, While
the Other Four Stood by and Look

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A special dispatch from Bridge
port, Conn, says FIVE men engaged
ar automobile at the railroad station
there Thursday night and told Geo.
Hull to drive them to No, los South
Avenue.
Arriving at this address one Of the
men entered the house and told Rose
White, twenty-five, she was wanted
by a man in the car who had COME
from Chicago to see her. According
to the story told by Hull later the
woman approached the car in fear
and once offered to retreat, but the
men called to her in threatening
voice and ordered her to approach.
AS she got alongside the car the
man who said he was from Chicago
spoke more kindly to her. He told
her that she must get into the ma
chine and go with him and his COM
panions. Again the woman hesitated,
out she was seized and forced into
the machine.
Hull then was ordered to drive to-
wards Peck's Mills, near Stratford, a
surburb of Bridgeport. He obeyed
and was nearing the Mills when word
came from one Of the fares to top.
stop.
AS soon as the car stopped the
FIVE men ahghted. Hull later told
the police that the man from Chicago
seemed to do all tho talking. He
had some grievance and was threat
ening the woman while his compan-
ions stood about. She appealed to
,her, to help her and they laughed
a: her.
Oue O. the men turned to Hall and
told him to drive on. The chauffeur
nesitated, and was told he would be
hurt unless he obeyeu. At the same
time the man from Chicago, so Hull
says. seized the woman by the throat,
drew her close TO him and, placing
4 revolver against her forehead, fir
ed. AS she fell he fred again. This
tire the bullet went through her
throat. and then the man stood over
her and pumped three more bulleta
into her body.
Hull :aced away and by circuit
Gus :ou:a re; ched Bri ;geEort. He re-
ported the case TO the police, and
Sheriff Williams, ex-Sheriff Stagg,
Constable Palmer and a squad Of po-
lice hurried in automobiles to the
mills. There they found the woman's
body.
The woods were surrounded and
three men hiding in bushes were cap
tured after hard fight. The men
were shackled and a posse continued
to search for the other men. They
had not been found up to midnight.
In the pockets Of one Of the prls-
oners were cards on which were
printed Andrew Lutz, Chicago" "
This man also carried revolver
from which five shots had been fred.
The other prisoners were Italians.
They refused to give their names or
anything about themselves, but the
police recognized them as Bridgeport
men. The men who escaped are be-
iieved to be Bridgeport men also.
A later dispatch from Bridgeport
says Chicago Joe Buonomo, one OF
the fve men who Thursday night
forced Rose White, a girl OF the un-
derworld, into an automobile and
drove her to a lonely spot near STRAIT
ford, where she was shot to death,
confessed that he was her slayer.
He fred the shots, he admitted. while
his four companions, two of whom
are under arrest, looked on. He gave
n, reason for the killing. He kept
repeating: II was drunk. l did not
know what l was doing" But from
il, formation gathered by the police,
and from telegraphic word from Chic
ago, where both victim and slayer
have been we'll known. it was pretty
we'll established that the act was a
white siaver's vengeance.
Under the name Of Rose Bruno, 1t
ls learned from Chicago, the girl in
April, 1910, testified against Buon-
ONO, who was on trial in the Federal
Court there for dealing in white
slaves" A woman named Tizzi was
arraigned with him. Rose, rather re-
luctaDtly. but at the same time show
ing a desire to lead better life. gar Z
evidence upon which the man and
woman were sent to jail for two
years. They were released last Ap-
riI.