Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-11-17
MOTHER and GIRL
SLAIN IN HOME
Bullets Pour Through Window
Into Bedroom
CRIME BLAGKNAIL SEQUEL
Victim Had Refused Demands TO Give
Up Money in Response TO Threaten
Inc Letters.

Pittsburgh Pa. Humning soft
II to her 5-yearold daughter as she
rocked the latter to sleep Mrs. Catha-
rine Carbon aged ~, sat in her home
In Page street, Nc KEGS Rocks, when
a 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 to comply
with Matchmaking letters demanding
$500 NJ.
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 assassins are connected with the
Good Killers the dreaded society
whose operations, similar to those Of
the Blsck Hand, have stirred terror
in other cities.
The police and detectives say they
are searching for James Bruno, an Ital-
ian, who had been living in a 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 kLow anything
about the man, came to This county
from Philadelphia. Formerly he is
said to have lived in Rochester, n. 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, a son, was in an up
stairs room. Transfxed by terror by
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
and the other mortally wounded.
From Todd the borough police and
county detectives ascertained 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
the premises meanwhile, and then left
without engaging a room Less than
five minutes later the deadly stream Of
bullets poured through the window.
The detectives say that while they be-
lice 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 receip1 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-
tered her home and ealked with her.