The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-14
MOTHER AND GIRL
SLAIN IN HOME
Bullets Pour Through Window
Into Bedroom.
CRIME BLACKMAIL SEQUEL
Victim Had Refused Demands to Give
Up Money in Response to Threaten
ing Letters.

| Victim Had Refused Demands to Give
Up Money in Response to Threaten
| ing Letters.
| Pittsburgh, Nov. 14.-Humming soft
| ~ to her 5-year-Old daughter as she
rocked the latter to sleep, Mrs Catha-
rine Carbon, aged 40, sat in her home
| in Page street, Nc KEGS Rocks, when
| q crash of revolver shots from the
| darkness outside shattered the win
dow near her and she slipped to the
floor dead, still clasping the child, who
died in the Ohio Valley Hospital
| later.
! Seven bullets entered the mothers
| body. Two struck the little girl, one
! penetrating her head. The brutal
| murders were committed in revenge
for Mrs. Gardens failure 10 comply
with Matchmaking letters demanding
| $500.
Neighbors who peered from their
windows on hearing the shooting saw
/ two men dash from the shadows of
| the Carbon residence and leap intoi a
green racing car, the engine Of which
! had been left running as it stood at
the curb. A moment later, before any
| body could interfere or raise an alarm,
| the green car. driven at top speed, had
| disappeared. Investigation by county
| detectives has led to the belief that
| the assaSsnS are connected with the
Good Killers the dreaded society
whose operations, similar to those of
| the Black Hand, have stirred terror
| in other cities.
The police and detectives say they
are searching for james Bruno, an Ital-
| ian, who had been liyinr in Il rented
room in McKee's Rocks for several
, months. His room was deserted and
the police say there are evidences that
| his departure had been planned in adj
| vance. Bruno, according to the few
persons who seem to know anything
about the man, came to this county
from Philadelphia. Formerly he is
said to have lived in Rochester, y. Y.
and Youngstown, o.
At the time of the tragedy Pascal
Todd, a boarder, was sitting in the
same room with Mrs. Carbon, and
! James Carbon, q son, was in an up
stairs room. TransfiXed by terror by
. the sudden shower of bullets and the
sight of the woman and her child ly
ing on the floor, bleeding from their
wounds, Todd had not moved from his
chair when James Carbon rushed
downstairs, to find his mother and
his sister weltering in blood, one dead
ha 9Th ~ Io1
From Todd the borough police and
county detectives accertained that a
few minutes before the tragedy a
young Italian, said to have been Bruno,
knocked at the door of the Carbon
home and upon his announcement that
he wanted to inquire about rooms was
admitted. He chatted with Mrs. Car
I don for several minutes, glancing about
the premises meanwhile, and then left
: without engaging room. Less than
! five minutes later the deadly stream Of
bullets poured through the window.
! The detectives say that while they be-
lieve James Bruno may know some
thing about the shocking crime, they
are not clear as to the identity of the
! other man wanted, though they have
! been told that Bruno had brother.
County Detective William Black, it
developed, had been informed by Mrs
Carbon regarding the receipt of letters
demanding money and threatening her
with death If she failed to comply.
She was ignorant of the identity of
the blackmailer or blackmailers and,
according to Todd, she was without
suspicion when the young italian en-
i tered her home and ealked with her