The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-21

wrote another note, he said, to which was forged his mothers signature.
 The sister to whom the notes were addressed, Mrs. Helen Atiguilli, 25, didn't believe what they said and she had her father and brother arrest ed.
 The sons story, detectives said, seemed shaky in parts. First he said his father had dictated the letter and later had it rewritten by a filling station attendant. Then, they said, he acknowledged that he and not his father had had the note rewritten.
 In Room Together
 After hours of this questioning, detectives decided to confront father with son. They put them in a room together and listened for more than an hour while the son urged his father to confess murder. The father shook his head time after time, in- sisttng that he had no idea what ever what had happened to his wife.
 Thirty detectives crowded into the homicide bureau. The son was cool and sharp, like a lawyer in court. His little father perspired and shifted in his chair.
 Pop, they're going to find it all out in the end, so tell me, where's mom's body? Where's she at, so we can give her a decent burial?" de- n1anded the son.
 "No, no, you know where she is. You probably killed her yourself" ]" the father said.
 'But the axe, pop. It was in the garage, and you had the only key. No one else could get in"
 You're the one," the Elder Spin- elli hared back, you know you al- ways were the black sheep of the family
 The father, baldish, weighing about 90 pounds, was bright-eyed with excitement. His son is half 8 head taller.
 Afraid to Sleep
 The elder Spinelli was arrested Monday night at the home of a neighbor. He said he was afraid to sleep in his own house. Police said he confessed having had intimate relations with his daughters, Emma, 16, and Theresa, g, who is mar ried and lives in San Francisco.
 William Jr., who is 19, said his father who can neither read nor write, had forced him to write the letter to his sister. Knowing that his sister was familiar with his handwriting, he had the filling sta- tion attendant coyl the letter, he said.
 Spinelli, ST., said that before his wife left she pushed him down a flight of stairs. He cut his head and it was his blood the police found.
 A gold band wedding ring was picked up in ashes near the incin- orator which hda been cleaned in the last few days.
 Twenty jail trustees, put to work spading up the yard and basement, found $500 in a rusty can in the basement. Spinelli said he knew nothing about it.
 Ashes Analysed
 Police Chemist Ray Pinker began an analysis of the ashes in the in- cinerator. He also was making further tests of the bone fragments. An assistant autopsy surgeon, Frank Webb, said that the fragments bore the characteristic seams of the hu- man skull.
 Spinelli was seen tending a fire in the incinerator for five hours approximately at time his wife dis apepared, police said.
 T came home at 10 p. m. that night" the son said. T found pop out in the back yard with fire in the incinerator. I thought it was funny but he had threatened me several times so didn't say any, thing. I noticed all the bedding was gone of the front room bed and there were sheets and bed clothes in the back porch tub."
 Pinker said it was impossible for the blood in the bedroom to have come from cut in Spinelli's head.
 NO one could have lost that much blood and lived," he said.
 Police found that the blood soak ed through floor chacks into the basement.
 The son and daughters said Spin elli had been unemployed the past 10 years and that the mother had worked as maid in a wealthy Rev. erly Hills home to support the fam-