The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-02
MARANO BLAMED
 FOR BLACK HAND
 LETTER TO BIAFORE
Further Disclosures of His Interference With Ro- nance of Victims Daugh- ter.

Mamma, it Is all my fauIt,'' was the
 heartbroken and pathetic cry of Rose Biafore to her grief-strlcken mother when news Of the killing of Nicholas Biafore was conveyed to the home of
 his family shortly after the fatal shot had been fired. @
 pencil was thrust into her eye while she was playing with a schoolgirl companion. She has since been SUD- piled with a glass eye.
 Tony Biafore was told by Joe Ma rano that he did not want to marry a woman of physical imperfections
 and his love for the girl slowly waned although the father of the girl of
 fered dowry of $2,0 600 and good busi- ness prospects to the youth if he would
 aid in completing his daughters hap piness.
 That the black hand letter, found
 upon the person of Biafore, which has
 heen the subject of much speculation,
 was sent. by Afarano is the statement of a witness interviewed by the police. This witness said that the dead man
 had told him that Marano was the author, and intended to arm himself with a revolver in case an attempt to carry cut the threat was made I A startling discovery was made yes terday by detectives sent to search the
 
 that upon the murderers return to his
 home at 10 o'clock prior to the killing, he destroyed many papers and photo graphs which might lead to his cap ture and secreted large framed pie ti1re of himself Clues have been found
 which the detectives feel confident will result in the finding of this picture to- day. This find is considered one of the most conclusive pieces Of evidence yet
 secured pointing to the deliberate in tention of murdering the victim in cold blood It has also been ascer tained | ths t the murderer at this time changed his clothing. His weight is now re- corded in the circulars being prepared for distribution as between 145 and 150 pounds.
 Because the family were threatened with sIarvation, Mrs. Marano. former 1 Iy Jennie Diveno, of Waterbury, cashed 1 her husbands work checks at Auditor
 Keatingss office in the. City Hall yes 1 terG ay morning and applied for trans 1 rort ation to her old hoIns in Water
 bury This was granted by Superin- l tendent of Charities Fred. Johnson and the woman left yesterday afternoon with her child. The house IS now
 closed.
 1 A statement yesterday the the na1r-
 derer returned to his home shortly af- 1 ter midnight on the day of the assa s- sin is held by the police to be without 1 foundation.
 Two reports of a man bearing the description of the murderer were re- I cefVed by the police last night and resulted in a thorough search of l houses in the North End fhere he was thought to have beeneseen4 Both were found groundless. Raffaelo Phillips, of 94 Walcot street, Waterbury, pick ed up in the Water street district as | closely resembling the murderer was
 released by Captain Arnold after care 1 full examination.
 An element of superstition was in l jected into the case when it became known that well known officer was 1 twice besought to refrain from patrol 1 ling his post today. Upon arising from his bed the officer was told by his wife of a terrible dream she had ex- i perienced during the night in which
 she saw visions of an awful struggle 1 between her husband and a desperate
 Italian armed with revolver and knife.
 Later in the morning the officer was 1 approached by a. burly negro who re- l lated almost the same peculiar story. \ Though firm in his desire to duty the officer who requested his name be withheld is considerably agitated by superstition and wonders if the coin
 cidence may have meaning.
 The inquest before Coroner Phelan
 will be resumed at the County Court
 House on Monday morning at 8
 o'clock.