The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-20
MAN WHO SHOT BROTHER MAY
 HAVE PREMEDITATED MURDER

With his brother, Starcos staveopou- las, aged g, dying in St. Vincent's hos pita1, his own daughter Annie charg- ing him with the most heinous of crimes ,and every indication that be- lore nightfalI he will be Charged with premeditated murder, Stergeo Staveo- poulas, aged 42, of 555 Water street, resisted the most drastic sethird de- gree, methods for hours this morning.
 Following several hours Of midnight grilling, he was arraigned in the city court today where, under charge of assault with intent to murder, his case avs continued for two weeks under bonds of $10.000. He was again a wis., ttor in Captain George Arnold's office later, where, surrounded by detectives and witnesses, he was confronted with evidence that the police claim will con- vict him of murder in the event of his brothers death. Nevertheless, he stoutly maintained his innocence of firing the shots that will probably re- suit in a fatality.
 The principal witness was his 14- .year-old daughter Annie, who lived with her brothers in the home of Peter Cafes, 555 Water street, where
 the shooting occurred soon after 6 o'clock last night. This girl has told l ably at least convict her brother of a crime warranting 20-year prison
 sentence. The tale is corroborated in
 an ante nortem statement made by the dying man last night as he lay on. a cot in the hospital
 Following his calm and quiet break ing down. of the prisoner. a1ternated with high words and the introduction Of successive witnesses to prove that even two days before he had prernedi-: tated the act by fi1ing the nnaker's s
 name and numbers from the blue steel
 barrel and shank of the revolver. Caps tain of Detectives Arnold said: ssWe
 have a clear case of murder against this man, if his brother dies He has not only committed the most dastardly crime against his own. daughter, but
 dne shot his own brother in an attempt
 to conceal it
 Captain Arnold this afternoon made
 a second journey to the Bridgeport hospital t0 clear up few minor
 points not fully covered in the ante- | mortem statements made, last night. Upon his return this afternoon the
 police official said that Starcos Sta- Iveopoulas would probably not live be-
 bullet wound through the head just
 beneath the brain and another bullet
 In the left lung close to the wall of the heart.
 statements to-day that he was grap-. bling with his brother in an effort to keep him from committing suicide when the officers broke into the house and took the revolver away I from him. On the other hand the
 them through an interpreter that The
 Stergeo) had mind to shoot his brother for long time
 A connected story of the shooting
 as picked up from the various wit l neSses and police sources today dis 1 closes: The two brothers. one of whom has been working in silver shop and the other who did the shooting. l working as a labOrer at the p. M. c. Co. have been in this city only Q few
 months. They lived on the third floor of the Water street address. Both are
 MacedonIans. A daughter of the as-
 sailant lived with them. She has
 been working in a corset factory. The
 father has recently ill-treated her and
 the other brother has frequently re-
 monstrated with him Last night
 they were alone in the rear kitchen
 room. The man afterWard mortally l wounded was sitting in 8 chair c1t- i ting up celery with 8 knife His brother is alleged to have closed the
 door behind him and. following an
 argument, to have drawn his revolver
 and fired two shots at the sitting
 man who arose from his seat and
 grappled with the assailant. Sounds of the Scuffle were heard on the
 floor below. Gus MeIligons rushed
 upstairs in time to hear the wound ] ed man crying Police :. and ssMur-
 der.S' Annie came from work at I this time and had opened the litch- Len door while Mel1igon ran into the
 street calling for the police, The
 men then struggled into the hail and
 were found by MeIhgon, Policeman
 Edward Dai1ey and J. A. Burns still l locked together in an embrace. Ster- geo held the revolver in his hands
 and was attempting to again shoot his brother as Bailey and Burns grappled with him. Daley choked
 him into submission while Burns
 wrested the revolver from his grasp.
 Starcos, wounded as he was in the. head and chest, walked down the
 stairs with the police asking that they 1 called @the hospital wagon" As he sat on the bottom stairway of the 1 building with his murder ously-i inclined l brother facing him, he told the police @Stergeo shot mei''
 Stergeo was at once taken to police headquarters, mumb1ing on the way: l My brother wanted to commit sui eide He shot himself and I only tried 1 to take the gun from him." To Sergeant Walker, who was soon on
 Peter Hall, the fatally wounded man
 said that they had,aquarreled--- over 1 Stergeo's daughter.
 In the ante-mortem statement taken ! last night Starcos revealed the story l of the fathers alleged Tnistreatment of 1 the girl, which was later procured in