Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-05-24
Body of Matthew RinaIdo is
Filled With Buck shot-De-
tectives on Lookout.
QUESTION HIS COMPANIONS
Police are Working on Many
Theories, Locking up Three
Men as Witnesses.
HEAR REPORT nF THE SHIT
HEAR REPORT OF THE SHOT
Thought at First That Victim
Had Been Shot Six Times
Was Buck shot, is Found.

The body of Matthew Rinaldi, thir-
ty-two years old, of Port Reading,
was filled with buckshot when he was
shot dead from an ambuscade of
thick underground In a by-road at
Port Reading about L O'Clock this
morning. Two loads of the gun were
pumped into his body and his chest
and arms perforated with the shot.
His assailant escaped, and is now be-
ing hunted by the Woodbridge police
under Chief Murphy, assisted by
County Detective Richard A. Peltier.
Three companions of the dead
man, who witnessed the murder
with the secretive instinct of their
race, disavow any knowledge of who
the hfghwayman was. They were
locked up as witnesses, but are not
thought to have implicated in the
shooting.
The body was taken to the morgue
of Coroner Robert A. Hirner in
Woodbridge, where an autopsy Will
be performed over it by County Ply
sician Carroll this afternoon.
The police and the county detect
I've are working on several theories
murder. One is said to be the theo-
ry that the man was killed by an
Austrian with whom the victim may
have recently had verbal combats as
to the business of Italy entering the
European war. Another theory is
that the victim may have become in
|volved with another of his country
men who vowed to get revenge and
decided on the cover of night and
the unfrequented by-road for per-
petrating the deed. The three men
arrested as witnesses will be held
until it is proven beyond doubt
that they were not accessories to the
murder and that they did not lure
the victim into the snare to be shot.
1t seems that the four men were
on their way to the padrone shan
ties. They had come down Wood
bridge avenue from the Port Read
ing station. About a quarter of a
mile from the station they turned
into the side-road leading to the
shanties, formerly controlled by
Messino and DeVito. They had gone
but a few yards down the lane when
they were passing between tall bush
es and shrubbery growing on either
side. Rinaldi stepped in front of the
trio in following the narrow path.
There was flash of fire and loud
report which caused all four to stop
abruptly. The trio saw Rinaldi reel
and stagger, but he kept on his feet.
Then he started to run to elude his
assailant. He had not gone ten feet
before there was another flare of fire
from the bushes and the victim
pitched forward ON his face.
When his friends reached him he
was dead, and blood was streaming
through pores shot through his shirt
and coat. Patrolman Krouse, who
was on duty in that vicinity. rushed
to the scene and then summoned aid
from the Woodbridge police station.
Patrolman Reilly was sent to aid him
and after notifying Coroner Hirner
the three companions of the victim
were locked up. They gave their
names as Giuseppe Cato, Lunigi Tin
Mite and Libene Gendili All are
young men except one, who is mid
dle-aged. Coroner Hirner at first
thought the man had been shot six
times by revolver until he ex-
amined the body and found that q
shotgun had been used The mans
chest and upper arms were riddled
with the buckshot from the shotgun
that had been used by the murderer.