The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-10

i Vassella said Rosso got out of the car
near the bridge, two men, who were
strangers, and the woman, going with
them. Vassella and Ledonne remained
in the car. In short time the girl
came back very much agitated. Half
an hour later Rosso and four strangers
came back to the car and wanted to be
driven to Trenton. The driver said he
did not have sufficient gas to carry
him there and the men offered him
money to get them to Trenton. Then
they got away from the scene.
When the girl was taken before the
police she was very much agitated and
declared that she did not have any
thing to do with the crime. The
police, however, think she knew of the
amount of money that was to be con-
veyed to Hampton and that she led
the men to the spot where the shooting
took place. Some of those arrested ad
mitted that they heard shots but otheSS
denied that they heard anything of the
sort. The police do not believe that
any of them are telling the truth.
While nearly all of the accused sub
mitted to arrest Rosso resisted and it
was not until the door of his room had
been broken into that he was captured. |
Four men, on Wednesday evening,
purchased single tickets from Philadel-
phia to Winslow junction and there
bought single tickets to Atsion. At
this place three of them got out of the
train on the station side, the other
alighting on the opposite side of the
train, The men we're seen to go towards
the woods and it is thought they
secreted themselves until Thursday
morning.
The prisoners we're given severe ex-
animation by the Philadelphia detec-
tives and after an examination which
lasted over an hour the latter reached the
conclusion that the only one really
connected with the crime was Rosso.
Nellie de Marco refused to change her
original version of the affair and the
police believe she was forced to lead the
bandits to the place where the murder
was committed. Two of the men ar
rested were three miles away from the
place where the shooting took place
and were ignorant of any plot to COM
NIT robbery. Rosso has admitted that
ne is acquainted with the five men (
who ran away from the scene Of the t
shooting but says he does not know Q
heir names. He gave description of a
hem which will probably lead to their v
rrest. The information he volunteered |
orroborated statements made by the n
irl. She strengthened the chain of 81
evidence which was n
round around Rosso. When he re- ii
urned to the auto, she said, he was b
with deep cash in his face. al
he girl said the wound was fresh al
ne, was bleeding and that the man W
id not have it when he left the car. d.
.osso told the police he had been tt
founded in the face several days be- g
)re. Mrs. Smathers said she saw a G.
ash on the face of one of the men de- Vi
pite the fact that he was masked. n
lille di Marco says that Rosso knows m
Ii of the men who ran away from the p,
Gene of the shooting and that they
ere his friends. She had seen them OF
ften and would know them again. r
IN Saturday she and Rosso were shown C
ne portraits of several men in the {"
ogues' gallery and they identified al
hem as parties connected with the Sc
hooting. fe
In the Jefferson hospital, Philadel- Il
hia, yesterday afternoon, A. J.. Rider b,
lentified Frank Vassella as the man IL
no shot and killed Henry Rider, of es
lowell. He also identified Frank n
edonne and Rosso as members of the A
old-up party. Riders daughter, Mrs. 81
Isle Smathers, said Guisseppi Rosso &c
,sembled the man who shot at her, d.
ut she was not certain of the identi- p'
cation. None of the wounded could &c
lentify Mile de Marco. "