New Britain herald., 1917-07-27
Ten Men and Women Arrested by
Police in Raids
TWO HOUSES VISITED
Judge Believes Woman in Elm Street
House Was Imported from New
4ork-MarTfed Woman Taken in
Park Street Raid.

A successful campaign against vice
was conducted by raid1ng parties of
the police force last night, the police
men being successful at all points
Two houses we're visited and ten pris-
oners captured.
A raid was made at 215 Elm street,
where six prisoners were CAPTURED
or the six taken, Mary Naro was
charged with keeping house of i'll
fame and the following were charged
with frequenting: Bruno Borgo, Jo-
seph Farondo, Frank Gungumeri, Jo-
seph Hatargo and Dominic Bruzakic.
The police are convinced that it is the
place where the plot to relieve John
Spagno Of his $3.50 and wife was
Matched, and that the prisoners cap
tured are bad lot who came from
New York for the express purpose Of
perpertrating crime in this city. For
the offense charged against them Mary
Naro was sentenced to two months in
jail; Joseph Farondo, three months in
Jail, and the rest of the prisoners one
month in Jail each.
Man Who Lost $3.50 Gives Tip.
John Spagno, who recently COM
planned to the police that his wife of
three days ran away taking $3.50 with
her, was the first witness in the case.
The police admit that information
gathered from hm in the investiga-
ton of the case of his missing wife
gave them the clue that led to last
nights capture. Spagno said that he
lives on North street and has been in
the city for three years. He testified
that he had known Mary Marc for the
past two weeks and had been to her
home on Elm street three times within
that time. He had seen other men
and women at the house and pointed
out some of the men in the dock.
Detective Sergeant Samuel Bam-
forth testified that he received
complaint about the house run by
Mary last Saturday and since that
plants. Last night In company with
Detective Richardson and other po-
lice officers he went to the house and
in a three-room tenement in the base
ment found Mary and the Ave men.
Two of the men were asleep across
the foot of a bed and the rest of the
party were sitting in the kitchen.
Sergeant Bamforth said that Mary
told him that she came from New
York and has been here one month.
She said the men were her boarders
as she was keeping a boarding house
because her husband is fighting in
the Italian army. Italian residents
protest that this cannot be true, how
ever, as the italian government
would provide for her in that case.
Detective Richardson and Police,
man William Strolls also testified that
they had received complaints from
citizens against the house.
Mrs. Naro was then called to the
witness stand by Lawyer A. A. Green
berg, who defended all those in the
case. She said that she has lived on
Elm street for a month and that four
of the men arrested were her board
ers and paid her $500 a week. She
denied that she knew Spagno and said
that his testimony was all lies. AL
though the police had testified that
there were but two beds in the house
she said there were three In re-
gard to Bruno Borgo, she said he
lived on BigeloW street and was Wis
iting one of her boarders at the time
of his arrest, although he was found
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