Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-19
N. ]. MOB THREATENS
GIRLS SLAYER WHO
SHOOTS POLICEMAN
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IN jail Lively was asked how lie
managed 60 live while eludlng the
police. and replied according 10 the
police:
i've got a pretty strong right arm
| guess the police up In New England
VIII know pretty soon how some
pretty stiff jobs wcrd pulled off there
did little housebreaking and ri
held up couple OF automobiles
managed To keep myself supplied with
money. ! guess | looked too much
Ike a white man for people to think
| am colored"
u surrender" exclaimed tho Negro
and he was Immediately taken 10 the
town inil
Policeman Wilson In believed Ia he
fatally wounded He was shot N tho
right lung.
A crowd quickly gathered at the
lail and there were threats OF lynch
lng. The chief of police summoned
assistance, and every preeautlon was
taken to safeguard the prisoner He
VIII be removed either TO tho Bur.
Hngton county jail at Mount Holly mr.
temporarily lodged In State prison ~
Trenton. -
Lively ~ about 35 years old. He IL
married and has the one child fIis
wlie was not at home ". on the Rusan
chiid was Killed, and SO far as the no.
ice Know, she had no knowledge of
the crime until the little girls body
was found. She Is held I'm the Mount
Holy jail as a possible witness.
Lively served three ycara in IN,
Eastern Ponitentiary al philadelnbia
or a charge OF killing n white man
during quarrel. He was releaao
in February. 1920. He had previously
served eight years In the Trento,,
pehltentiafy on a statutory charge.
Chiet OF Police Hudson in relating
L'Velys alleged conviction said thr
Negro sobbed as he told his story
I've told you ALL" he pleaded. ne
fair to me. Shoot m, or give me poison
] want 70 kill myself. I know they
will lynch me If they take me TO Bur
lington county"
Bridgeton. n. T., oct t9.-t.ouis
| Lively. the negro charged with the
| killing OF Matilda Russo. was brought
TO the Cumberland county jail here
safely In aMautomobile this morning
Because of threats made In vineland
the county authorities thought Il best
to remove him to the county jan
Denied Intent 20 KIN.
According 10 tile police. Lively said
he did not intend 10 Kill the child In
substance the police said, Lively told
this story:
Il didn't mean to kill Matilda" said
Lively" She was playmate OF
! Robert, my seven year old son. whom
she named SNOWFALL On June 4 she
came to my house. Snowfall was out.
The child played around and she
threw things around. She smashed n
dish.
II told her TO stop. but she didn't
obey me. Then | got angry. | picked
/ ub a chunk of wood. | don't know
what made me do it, threw 4 mt
her It struck her on the head. She
fell after walking a few steps. didn't
i think she was dead / got water and
mopred of the blood After waiting
fifteen minutes / became frightened" Z"
! Lively, tho police said. then told
how he feared to cali help and be.
coming desperate decided TO hide hcr
body. He said he did not know what
made him do IL. but something tol ]
him to cut the body to pieces. After
i detailing how he mutilated the child 1
body, he told Of digging a hole in the
cellar burying the child and leaving
the house.
Lively positively denied he had as
saulted the child before he killed her.
he said he remained in East Moores-
town until he realizodgthe police were
watching him in connection with the
disappearance of the child.
lie told the Vineland police that he
had gone to Bridgeton yesterday to
man had not ertag edtm hriih
man had not treated him right when
the officer arrested him there several
days ago, and that II he had found
him he would have shot him.
u East Moorestown. n. T., Oct. 19.-
!, Michael Russo. father Of Matilda Rus.
/, so. killed i'm the home of Louis LivelS
last June. expressed satisfaction todaS
when informed that Lively had beer
? captured in Nineland lie asked
whether the right man had beer
81 caught.
/, I'VE don't want TO punish tn,
) wrong man." Russo said. but II they
have caught Lively he must pay the
penalty"
Russo who is a tailor, and liveC
close to the Lively home, said h,
would so to Vineland today to identif,
Lively.
Ellis II. Parker, a Burlington coun.
ty detective, said II Lively is brought
to Mount Holly, he will be amply pro
tected against harm.