New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-12

Father Zebris and his housekeeper
was discovered she remarked to
| Morris: there was an awful murder
+ committed"
Morris replied: Eyes, will have to
get busy now and get the fellow that
killed the priest There will be
plenty of work. Shortly after this
he disappeared and she never heard
fl ON him again.
Her description TALES with that of
the Wilmington murderers and the
false mustache she saw Morris have
is the same one which Detective Bam-
forth says was among the effects of
the prisoners
/ Likely Lighted Church Lights.
1t will be remembered that all
night previous to the finding Of the
| murdered priest and housekeeper the
lights in the basement or the church
! were lighted, but when the police ar
| rived the next morning the basement
| door was locked. One of the set of
! keys found on the prisoners in Will
mington is the one which unlocks the
| basement doors, SO 1t is now proved
| that they are the men who lighted the
| basement lights and locked the
| church up after them. The other
keys were used to lock the front door
| Of the church
Warrant Out Ten Days Ago.
Prosecutor George w Klett stated
| this morning that ten days ago he
I issued warrants for the arrest of two
men bounded by the police and who
have been identified as the murderers
since killing the Wilmington officer
The local and state police had
II inst
two men and had a complete descrip-
ton Of both of them as well as their
names and aliases On the advice of
Superintendent Egan, of the state po-
lice, issued warrants for the arrest
of both, charging them with backmail
Ih1s was merely a technical charge
to hold them until more evidence
against them in connection with the
murder could be unearthed While
1t was by tae merest chance that they
We're caught in Wilmington, they are
the two men who were sought by the
local authorities and, they were hot
on their TRAIL" says the prosecutor.
Melba, or Krakas, whose aliases are
Ialas and Kelly, was searched for
under all names and all names APP
peared on the warrant. The names
of Montvid and Moras appeared on
the Other warrant.
\ Only Month Since Murder.
1t was just one month ago today
that the funeral of Father Zebris was
held and the fact that the authorities
have both murderers in custody in less
than month speaks we'll for their
efficiency. While they did not arrest
them, still they were on the right
track and would have Undoubtedly
rounded them up before very long
had they mot run afoul of the Will
mington authorities.
4 It has also been learned that the
two murderers purchased automatic !
revolvers from the Savage Arms COM |
pany of Illion, n. Y 1t is also
believed that at least one of the men !
was the strange party who called |
Father Zebris on the telephone from |
Waterbury on the Friday night be-
fore the murder. The call was sent
to the home Of Mrs. Roy, on Church
street, but the frightened priest re-
fused to answer the message.
Followed About New England
AS soon as the police got on the
trail Of Media and Montvid they fol-
lowed them about New England. First
they went to Springfield and then to
that Montvid had been in both places
they arrived just too late to catch
him. They learned, however, that he
was well known In Worcester and was
identified with a bad crowd there. 1t
was while the police were trying to
find where he had gone from Worces-
ter that they were notified Of his ar
rest in Wilmington. Ha
In an interview this noon Mr..
Braeither, husband of the woman
on Arch street who rented the rooms
to Montvid and Melba, said that the
typewriter used by the murderers in
his house was small Blickensderfer
machine. AS the owner was an ac-
commodating chap he permitted
Braeither to use the machine him.
self. He wrote a few letters to an
uncle of his and when the murder
was discovered and Montvid was sus-
pected by the police he secured the
return Of his letters. They were
turned over to Officer Ted Malone
and a comparison showed that the
type, ribbon and style was identical
with the machine that was used to
write the threatening letters to Fa-
Their Bojnowski.
Mr.. Braeither said that on the
of February 8, the same
day Of which Father Zebris and the
housekeeper were murdered, the man 1
who gave the name of Kelson, but 4
who is thought by the police to have
been none other than Melba, left to go
to New York, on some insurance bus
mess" he said. He left word that he l
would return In few days. At noon
however, Montvid said he did not
think his companion would return for
two months because he was a detec- j
tive and had gone to New York to