New Britain herald., 1915-02-10
High Officials Offer Big Rewards
 for Arrest of Priests ASSaSSinS
Total Amount of Cash on Midnight Mrderers' Heads Now Amounts to $2,0OO---Police
 Lost in Maze of Theories

thought to have been revenge or the work of some fanatic or mad man. common burglar would hardly have gone so far in committing murder as those who were in the parish house did. The fathers gold watch, and valuables were still on his person and other valuables were in the house. The theory that the robbers may have been frightened after the murder and before they discovered the valuables hardly holds water It took some time to accomplish the double murder. The fact that cord was about the fathers neck, evil dently placed there after he was shot, appears to lend color to the theory that the murder was premeditated and that the cord had been placed there to carry out some threats pre- viously made. There is little ben- eft in throttling' dead man. Cold blooded, carefully executed and dia- bolically perpetrated murder is the verdict of those who consider the facts.
 We are up against it." say the police, and there is no doubt but what they are They are working at q great UlSauNdnIdSe IS not knOW- ing the language of the dead mans parishioners, although a detective who speaks the Lithuanian language was today obtained.
 Theories.
 Practically all the police have to work on are the stories, disc connected of course, told by neighbors and friends. The black hand letter re- ceiVed two years ago is receiving it's share of attention. Father Bojnow- ski may be able to help in running down this clue, he has received letters supposed to be in the same hand writing threatening him with death if he did not comply with re- quests of the writers. The strange men of whom much is said are un- traceabIe so little can be done in this connection Other clues appear from time to time and are traced or rejected according to their value.
 Theories advanced this morning concerning the business affairs of the dead priest particularly one in re- s,ards to his part ownership of a bakery near Waterbury, have been found to be of no importance.
 Interview Relatives.
 Two nieces and a nephew of Miss Gilmanaitis, the housekceper, were in terviewed by the police today. The nephew, Joseph Barvida, and his sis ter, Frances, are employed on to- bacco plantation at Broadbrook and arrived in this city today. Another niece, Annie Barvida, lives at 353 Church street. They asked the po- lice for permission to remove the ef- fects of the housekeeper, but this was not granted.
 They were unable to throw any light on the case John Chussna. a brother-in- Jaw of the dead house. keeper lives in Burlington.
 The police also interviewed Anna Gutauskas, of 237 Whiting. street, the teacher in the adjoining school who discovered the body of the priest in the house and raised the alarm. and Miss Anna Nevuls, of Yale street, an other teacher in the school who was at the scene of the murder after ward.
 Locate Bullet.
 A steel bullet was located al about 1O:30 o'clock this morning in the body of Father Zebris byl Dr. Bunce after an autopsy that was begun last night and resumed again at o'clock this morning. The bullet was from an automatic revolver, a detail con- trmed by the finding of four shells near the body of the priest when the police entered the house yester- day.
 The bullet found had entered the body in the chest and had passed through the lungs, being found lodged just underneath the skin over the right shoulder blade. A cursory ex- animation of the skin last night did not reveal any trace of the bullet but this morning a little blue mark indicated the presence of a foreign body underneath the skin.
 Four Bullet Holes.
 Four bullet holes were found on the body One was right over the heart the bullet having taken a side course and had entered the liver An other had entered the side Just under meath the arm, and had lodged itself somewhere in the lungs. Another bullet had entered the back, and the bullet which was found had entered through the chest. pr. Bunce re- sarded the wound in the sternum just opposite the fifth rib as the cen tral one, this being the one which had lodged in the liver The sixth rib on the right hand side was found broken.
 Shot in the Back.
 The location of the wounds makes