The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-23
LURED TO DEATH
Pretty Young Woman MUIR
dered by Five Men.
Three Slayers Captured Soon
After Killing.

| Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 23.-The young
woman identifi>I at Rose White, who
was shot to death last night at STRAIT
/ ford, to which place she had been taken
| by five men in an automobile left Chi
/ cago at the time of the anti-vice cru
| SADIE, declared Bridgeport police today
after investigating the murder. A state
ment to this effect was made by Detec-
| tive Captain George Arnold after sever
al hours of questioning the three Ital-
ians captured after the shooting. The
prisoners are Joe Bunano, known as
! Chicago joe" Joseph Motto and
Frank Pizzichennip. Bunano according
to Captain Arnold, has confessed to
having shot the woman who he said for
the last four months had been his COM
mon law wife. Bullano says he was
under the influence of liquor and did
not know what he was doing.
He said that the woman's husband
John Achillo of New York, died six
months ago and that later he took the
young woman as his common law wife.
Bullano and the woman arrived in
Bridgeport yesterday from Chicago.
Police Thought Her Witness.
Taken by five men in an automobile
to lonely point on the main road be-
tween Bridgeport and Stratford. Conn.,, /
the young and handsome woman was
deliberately shot to death by the road
side. The victim, when found with five
bullet wounds in her body was clad
in costly attire and her valuable jewels
had not been taken. The motive for the
killing was a blank mystery, although
on learning that she had come recently
from chicago, the police formed a
theory that she might have been a
dangerous witness in some criminal
case there. After shooting the girl, the
five men, who had sent the chauffeur on
ahead in the car, abandoned the ma
chine and fed into the woods. Three of
them We're captured within two hours
Two of these were traced by con-
stables to a swamp, two miles from the
scene of the tragedy. They were hiding
in the thick underground and were
completely exhaused from running
through the forest. Their clothing had
been torn to shreds by the brambles /
but it was easy to see that the gar i
ments had been whole and costly only a /
few hours before.
The third man was captured on the
main road mile from the scene of the I
girls death by Herbert NJ. Booth of /
Stratford- He carried a So calibre re-
volver which had several empty cham
bers. He was in such a condition that
he could not give his name.
All were taken to the Bridgeport
Jail.
The police learned that the Ave men
drove up to the restaurant at No So
Union Square early in the evening
and had the hired car wait for thcn.
When they left the restaurant the, girl
-
chauffeur, William b. Hall, 10 drive
to the Stratford Inn at Stratford but
when they got there, they told him %
drive on toward Paradise Green. They
had taken champagne along in the
car and were laughing and talking i'll
loud voices
Arriving at Paradise Green, Han
was told to 'just. keep on going" and
they did not stop him until they
reached a dark and lonely strip of the
road in the Putney district, seven niles
from Bridgeport.
There all the men and the girl left
the machine. One of the men said 10
Hall:
He Heard the Shots.
Now just drive up the road piece
and then come back"
Hall had gone about 400 yards when
he was startled by the reports of five
pistol shots in rapid succession H
heard no cutlery, not a cry nor spok
en- word. He whirled the car about
and sped back. There was no sign Oc
them or the girl. He put on full
speed and gave alarm in Stratford.
The posse was organized within half
an hour. On the road they met d ped
dler who had found the body of the
girl.
He directed them to it and from
there they followed a trail of broken
bushes through the woods to Bilherry
Swamp where they came upon the two
fugitives. Returning they learned Of
the capture of the third man.
Pizzicheni and Mattio told a story
of having been invited by another
man to take a taxicab ride and having
been put out of the cab on the rOaG-
They said they hadn't seen any young
woman. The police found garage
where it was said that five men had
hired a car ir the evening and got the
names of the men who hired it. They ,
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