The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-23
WHITE SLAVERS REVENGE ON INFORMER BELIEVED TO HAVE
 CAUSED ORONOQUE TRAGEDY

Jennings, fish monger. He drove 1 past the scene, having first met sev- eral men running through the. dark l ness, and saw in the dim light tho l wonan's form. He jumped from his | team, saw the woman lying on her l hack her face streaming with blood, l and hurried to the home of Fancher, l a stones throw to tlae south. There
 are several houses in the near neigh
 borhood as well as the home of We1es and in a few minutes the alarm was
 spread and the neighborhood was out. The Stratford authorities lost no
 time. From the home of WeIles they
 sent alarms to Bridgeport and Derby
 and in a few minutes officers were watching trolley cars and for autorno- piles.
 | State Policeman Rowe Wheeler was soon racing on his motorcycle spread 1 ing the alarm through the country dis | tricts. He met on the main road from Derby an automobile carrying Chief
 Robbins of Derby and Patrolmen 1 had covered the main road They I took a detour over the old Putney road and when they were about two miles l tie to the north of Tom Cooks cider
 Swami they saw two men hurrying through the darkness. The officers l leaped from the car One of the men sealed a fence. The other was ex- hausted. Neither was capable of run and streaming with precipitation from head to foot.
 The officers thrust the two prison CTS into the car and hurried back to ! the scene of the crime. Neither man was armed, but this morning when Wheeler and Robbins returned to the | H.
 Swamp they discovered a, ss calibre colt pistol of the army type, fully loaded, with flat nose bullets, designed particularly to be deadly. While the Derby officers were hur- rying back to Oronoque, the third man
 was taken into custody. staff was spending the evening with
 Samuel Lewis at the 1atter's home.
 East Main and North Main streets, a
 mile from the scene of the murder,
 when word was received that there had been murder at Peck's NH. the bridge without finding anything unusua1- While going up the hill un- der the bridge a man passed them After searching the ground in theSvi- cinity of the bridge they retraced | their steps and when they arrived op- l posite the Bevan house next to the | mering on the door. They waited to l see what he was going to do and when he came back into the road they stop ped him and asked him his business. He was intoxicated and did not speak
 much English, but made them under stand that he wished to get to Bridge port. Suspecting that something Was wrong, Booth and Lewis walked along with the man to the house of MT. Webb and found him out in the yard l with lantern.
 The man was questioned closely by | the three and detained. He said that
 he came from Chicago and showed a. l transfer check. He offered s1O to be taken to Bridgeport and said he want ed to go to 105 South avenue. When | asked what he was doing way up there
 he could not give any reason or state
 how he came there. At this time the lights of a number of autos could Peck's Mill bridge Lewis and Booth went to the side of the road and stop ped the machines The Shelton chief of police, Robbins, jumped from the first car followed by several Farmer reporters from one of the other cars,
 and inquired if three Italians had been 0f them was there. He was seized and when Chief Robbins was informed
 by the suspect that he wished to go
 to 1o5 south avenue, Bridgeport, he fronted with the two suspects who were in the chiefs car.
 Searching parties in several autono-
 piles continued the search until we'll into the night. It was soon definite ly ascertained that TWO men answer ing the general description of the sus- poets still at large had boarded the next north bound car on the trolley tracks which skirt the foot of the hill on the crest of which the crime was committed, and had obtained South Shelton transfers.
 The Derby police had searched the car, but not until the car had passed the transfer point and the two men had gotten away. This was not ascer- tained however until late at night and the two had a good start.
 The three prisoners were hurried in the murder car, driven by Hall, back to Stra tford, and temporarily thrust into the town lockup.1 The prisoner captured by Messrs. Booth and Lewis was found to be carrying 12 inch s. & w. 38 caIibre pistol of the armX of the sort found in the discarded pistol in the Billberry swamp. this morning, and thre rounded bullets of the ordinary sort
 On Matteo was SIS, a $10 gold piece fashioned into charm, On his boss was $5.10. On Buonomo were a spe- 50 cents in change, and the cards of several restaurants and saloons in New York city Before Buonono was turned over by Booth and Lewis to the police he offered them $10 if he would get him to 105 South avenue, Bridgeport, at once; haven't got get to Bridgeport he said, in broken English.
 Medical Examiner w. E. COggSWeL who was called early to the scene took careful charge of the body as it lay by the roadside and after a super ficia1 examination of the wounds about the face, announced that death had come almost instantaneously, and that she had been shot by 38 calibre | revolver pressed closely to the face. l Five distinct wounds were in evidence, l one penetrating the direct middle of i the forehead, one at the apex of the | left cheek bone, another in the left l cheek, one at the base of the chin 1 and another at the upper surface of | the shirt waist. Carefully removing | the jewelry, piece by piece, the medi- | cal examiner took possession of each, l as well as a bullet which he found |
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