Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-25

Putnam, Aug. 24.-Frank Roze, 27, shot three times Saturday night by some unknown person, died at 6 o'clock Sunday night at the Day Kim ball hospital, adding another to the list Of persons recently murdered in Windham county.
 Shot Near Railroad Bridge.
 The shooting of Roze is a matter surrounded with mystery The shoot ing occurred near the railroad bridge over Front street just before II o'clock Saturday night, and people who were in the vicinity say that eight or nine revolver shots were heard. Just what actually occurred is not known. for Roze died without making any state ment sufficiently definite to shed much light upon the affair
 Suspected Another Italian.
 He said he did not know who shot him. though he believed it was an- other Italian who is engaged with a gang laying water pipes near the fair grounds, and he also stated that he had no revolver of his own. After being shot Roze ran through Kinney's lum- Der yard to School street to Corbin street to May street and into Tet- reault's saloon, where he collapsed.
 Unable to Stand Operation. Two men who were in the place took
 
 near by, Dr. Russell ordering him re- moved to the hospital. At the hospital an examination showed that Roze had been shot three times one bullet en- tering the abdomen, another lodging in the right side and another in the back. Roze's pulse almost immediate ly jumped up to 160 and his condition was so serious that he was not oper- ated upon.
 Roze Gives Little Information.
 During Sunday Prosecuting Attor- ney Arthur W. Macdonald and Coroner Arthur G. Bill both saw Roze at the hospital, but did not succeed in glean- ing any more information from him to what led up to the shooting or who was responsible for 1t other than the injured man had previously given. To an interpreter Roze insisted that he did not know who shot him, and all efforts to draw him out were unaVail- ing.
 A Possible Revolver Duel.
 At the scene of the shooting, soon after it occurred d -3S calibre revolver was picked up and is now in the hands of the Putnam officials. Roze was shown the revolver, from which all the shells were gone when it was found, by Prosecuting Attorney Macdonald Sunday, but the dying man denied that he owned the weapon. There is a
 
 in a revolver duel with the man who shot him, but this could not be sub stantiated Sunday Persons who were about the scene of the shooting soon after it occurred claim that an evil looking foreigner who was holding a handkerchief to the side of his head as though he had been wounded came back and started to search for what is presumed to have been the revolver found, but when he saw persons about he ran away.
 Wife and Two Children Survive.
 Another story is that a man was seen running through the fields near the high school. The duel theory is based upon the fact that more shots were heard fired than could have been produced from one revolver with one loading. The police were working hard on the affair Sunday, but find it mighty difficult to obtain evidence, as there were very few persons near where the shooting occurred at that late hour. Roze was a laborer who came here about five months ago from Italy with his wife and two small children. He could not speak English