New Britain herald., 1915-02-10

7, tery.
 Father Ambot said that the pub hshed statement that two men had | been to see him in Hartford and had questioned him regarding Father Zeb- ris was untrue. He said he had no 1 theory to offer regarding the murder and knew of no dangerous enmltles l incurred by the priest.
 Special Meeting.
 1 Today a notice was posted on St. ] Andrews church stating that a spe- cial meeting will be held tonight to , hear few words from Rev. Father Ambot, of Hartford, who has been sent to care for the local parish. It is possible that some other action will also be taken.
 More Clues Are Discovered Today a few more clues, which, while they may not be of any value,
 go to snow that Father zebris had been harrassed of late, were found.
 Aviator Nels Nelson stated that on Monday he saw the priest and some unknown stranger in a heated argu- ment.
 EuWdIu MCAlOOH, the well known delivery man, also comes forth with a new story. He says that early Monday evening he was accosted in front of St. Peters church on Frank lin square by two strangers, who anxiously asked him if that was the 1 Polish church He replied in the 1 negative, but did not direct them. Vengeance. Says Chief Rawlings. While he admits that there have been no startling developm ents dur ing the past twenty-four hours which ] can be made public, Chief William J. Rawlings insists that, in his opinion, vengeance was the sole motive for the crime of Monday night. To bear
 out this opinion is the fact that two
 watches were found on the dead
 priests body and that several gold
 candle sticks and several small coins
 were left lying about the house.
 According to his opinion the mur-
 derers were admitted to the parish
 house through the front door and
 then, after pleting their terrible
 work, left by means of the rear door.
 This theory is strengthened by tho
 fact that the key was found in the
 front door but no key can be found for the rear door, which was locked. { Another peculiar thing is that the bunch of keys to the church, usually
 carried on Father zcbris person, are also missing.
 Chief Rawlings points to the ia ct that the house was so completely overturned as significant that robbery
 was not the motive. He thinks that had anybody been looking for money they would not have turned every thing upside down, but would have confined their energies to places
 where money would likely have been kept. It was done as a blind and was
 overdone, is the chiefs view.
 In speaking of the manner in which 1 the houseKeeper met her death the chief thinks that she rushed up the attic stairs and held the door behind her. AS the assassns chased her up they twisted at the key and finally pried open the door and followed her to the top of the stairs where they strangled her. The wound on her arm he believes was made with the knife used to cut the clothesline and 1 was inflicted during her fight for life. Follow Various Clues
 Although the combined efforts of 1 the local police, the state police and numerous officials connected with the Lithuanian societies of the city are working without let up and are trac- 1 ing numerous clues which may shed some light on the perpetrators of the l horrible crime of night before last, ! when Rev. Father Joseph Zebris. pas l tor of St. Andrews Lithuanian Cath ] ollie church and his hOusel1ecper, Miss i Eva F. Gilmanaitis were sent to their death in the most cold blooded fashion ; by unknown assassins. No informa = 1 tion of any great value has yet com 9 ] to official notice. The police de-
 partment is doing everything in it's power to get some tangible piece of
 evidence for a starting point in
 working up their case, but all ef- 1 forts are proving unavailing.
 l State Police at Work.
 ! Members of the state police and 1 local detectives, aided by Interpreter : Malinowski interviewed, this morn l ing several cousins of the deceased housekeeper in an effort to find 1 whether any friction between the { latter and any person or persons ex- isted These interviews, together with talks with church officials 1 proved to be of little or no value ] Evidence of friction, which probably
 existed in so large a parish is lack l ing and clues to a possible murderer l also are conspicuous by their absence. l Tho motive of the crime, still un- l decipherable is, however, now