The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-23
SEE WORK OF 'SLASKER' I'M H0RRIbL E DEATH OF
 CRIPPLE IN SOUTH END
Two Notorious "Rippers" Believed To Be In This Neighborhood Police In stitute Dragnet for Their Capture. .
One, of Friends, Self Con- fessed Killer of Girl. Has Been In Hands of Police Here and Was Allowed To Go.


 To Go.
 Two self-confessed slash CTS" known to be at liberty are being sought by the police in { connection with the finding of the mutilated body of Michael Norko, 56 years of age, whose nude remains, were discovered in a pool of blood behind a bill board, in the vacant field, at Railroad and South avenues, yesterday morning, by Police man Charles Fitzgerald.
 The Authorities have spread 8 dragnet throughout the state and the police of New York snd Massachusetts have been notified to apprehend the men if possible. . Both types of degenerates have murdered persons under theN same revolting circum- stances as Yorko met death, / their deeds creating a reign of terror. Every effort to hunt them down is being made.
 The police assert that Yorko met death at the hands of either William Totterman, who escaped f1om Sing Sing prison month ago and who was seen near Springfield q week ago, or Michael Slattery, who gave jlhmself up tef thss Bridgeport nuthorities, a month ago, con- fessing that he had murdered a 6 year old New York child.
 slattery after giving the local po- lice the details of the murder of which ] he had committed naming the date and place and describing how he had mutilated the child. was sent to the Hillside Home, the police believing him insane. Word was sent to the < New York authorities and Slattery's revolting story of the murder ,corro- borated.
 Inspector FAurot of the New York police, came here to get Slattery, find Ing on his arrival. that the man, through the stupidity of some official had been allowed to leave the home. He may still be in this city. VI
 Totterman. wha knows every inch of Bridgeport. was a sea-farfng man. He left this city one afternoon in 1906 and went tb New York The night of the same days he took a woman Into one of the cheap hotels in that Eity. c6t her throat and mutilated her body. The circumstances of both khese murders are identical with the killing of Yorko. < Inasmuch as these men have both been .frequenterse of Bridgeport and Known the city thoroughly-that they are both types of. criminals whose ', crimes coincide in nendishness and method with the Yorko mystery, the authorities believe one of them the guilty person. {, Never in the history of Connecti- cuts criminal annals, have the police tbeen called upon to solve a more baf- fling murder or a crime it's equal in re- Wolting fiendishness.
 Stripped of every vestige of cloth< ling, his peg leg wrenched from his body, as he lay in a drunken stupor, in the field bounded by Garden street and Railroad avenue. some time be- tteen midnight and I o'clock yester- tdAy morning, Yorko was carried across the field 200 feet, mutilated and murdered by the infuriated de- generate. 1f
 Slashing his intoxicated victim across the throat with a violence that severed the jugular vein and pene- trated through the neck to the verta- brae, the ripper" actuated by an in- cane impulse, mutilated. the nakeL body and disemboweled the remains.
 The perpetrator of the murder left mot the slightest clue to his identity; mo outcries were heard by any of the residents in the district and Yorko when last seen was alone on his 1%ey nome. Yorko, who was employed by the nkalleable Iron Co.,, had no enemies, was not of aggressive disposition, 5ovial, shift1ess, good-hearted charN acter Saturday night he had been Arinkine heavily, in the saloon con- ducted by Steve Danaschak, in Park avenue, a ,shoft distance from the va- cant lot where his remains were found. '
 Owing to his intoxicted condition. the saloon keeper refused to sell him any more liquor, and he left the store shortly after + o'clock, presumably to so home. There were only three lmen at the bar, none of whom left with Yorko " At 11:30 Yorko was found leaning against the fence at Park and' Rail- road avenues by Policeman Fitzgerald. The policeman shook him and told him to go home. Yorko was in the habit of crossing the field from Rail- road avenue to 106 Garden street, where he lodged with Mrs. Andrew Eutag.
 A heavy drinker. it was his wont at times to sleep in the field ins.ead
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