Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-20
Federico CHASE
LEADS SLEUTHS
TOLN|NGSTON
Search for Murderer Is Carried
to All Parts of Essex
County Hills.
SHANNON NOT VICTIM
OF SHOTGUN WOUNDS
Autopsy Reveals He Was Killed
by BuIIets-Stories Told
by Wounded Men.

Search for Antonio Federico the
fugitive murderer, eentered today IN
Livingston, about twelve miles from
the scene Of the double murder IN the
Little Italy section of Cedar Grove
Saturday. Federic has relatives in
Livingston, and while he disappeared
in the direction of Newark after the
shooting. the police believe he doubled
back on the Pompton turnpike and
made for Livingston.
A man answering his general de-
scription and evidently very much
disturbed in mind appeared at the
store of Mrs. A.. nj, Shaw, in Bloom
field avenue. Caldwell, yesterday
morning about Z o'clock He bought
] Newark paper. glanced at the head
lines Of the murder story, wrapped the
paper up and hurried out of the store
In the direction Of Pine Brook. While
Livingston is not in the direction he
J went many roads leading to 1t are
easily reached that way. Mrs. Shaw
is certain she never saw the man be-
fore and that he does not live in the
neighborhood.. She believes. from the
picture Of Federico, printed in the
Evening Star Saturday, that her
nervous patron of yesterday morning
was the man the police are searching
for. s
West Orange Clue
Another story which the police are
looking up is that Federico had con-
siderable conversation with West
+, Orange resident about 2:3o Sunday
afternoon in Franklin avenue. West
Orange. Although the police believe.
at first thought, that Federico would
not be SO reckless as to venture into
the streets near where he was said
to be yesterday, they are thoroughly
Investigating the circumstances. The
spot where the hunted man was said
to have been seen yesterday is only
about a mile from Livingston.
The police now believe that Joseph
|O'Dowd. the milisrnan, was mistaken
in,at least~ene detail of his story.
While driving to Montclair to conl4
inence his Saturday milk deliveries
o.Dowd saw a sktlking figure near
the corner Of F'airview and Bloom
field avenues, Verona. AS the driver
drew near the man attempted to con-
ceal himself behind a telegraph pole,
and succeeded In keeping his features
out of view. O'Dowd said the man
had a shotgun in his hand, but every
thing points to the belief that the
fugitive did not have q shotgun When
he ran. away, or at any time, for that
matter.
1t was believed at first that Detec-
tive Shannon had been shot by a
charge from a gun because of the
nature of the wounds about the chin
and neck. Later when it was found
that bullet had found lodgment in
the policeman's heart, it was thought
that two persons had shot through
the glass door of the .sold bakery
where Federico was sleeping.
The autopsy however. showed that
two bullets from a pistol had struck
the policeman's throat, one lodging in
the right lung and the other in the
heart. The cuts about the chin were
made by glass and establish the fact
that Shannon was standing close up
to the door with his face only an inch
or two away from the glass when the
shots were fired.
The police also are almost COM
pletely satisfied that only Federico
did any shooting and that neither of
the two men who occupied the build
ing with him are directly concerned
In the murders. Both of these pris-
oners are being held In East Orange,
and a Little Falls contractor. for
whom one Of them worked for twenty
years, will have a long talk with them
today.
First to Respond.
Luigi Lugori, the older of the two
and the one who responded first to
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