Evening star., 1939-04-20
SteeIworker CHARGED
With East Baltimore
Torso Murder
Confession Is Reported
After Police Find Head
Buried in His Yard
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. April 20 @.-Au-
relic Marco Tarquinio, IS, steel
worker and former tavern keeper,
was charged with East Baltimore's
gruesome torso Staying today q
few hours after the head of Evelyn
Rice, 81, had been unearthed in his
tulip -bordered backyard.
Police Commissioner Robert F.
Stanton said the steelworker had
confessed killing the Georgia girl
who became his barmaid and house.
keeper and had recounted details
of his butchery. The confession
was not made public Immediately.
Tarquinio was charged with "as-
saulting by cutting and stabbing
one. Evelyn Rice, 81, with a butcher
knife and thereby causing her
death"
Officers who had conducted a
search since parts of the young
woman's body began to be picked
up piecemeal from sewers last Fri
day, found the last remains at dawn
after arresting Tarquinio last night
and grilling him for six hours.
Mrs. Louise Bridges, neighbor
said Evelyn Rice was from some
where in Georgia. Police said they
understood her home town was
Americus, Ga. She lived at Tar
quinio's home and had been missing
since Thursday.
Police found the head buried in
quicklime under layer of bricks
in Tarquinio's back yard. 1t was
identified by Frank M. Peterson, a
neighbor.
Known as Frank Marco.
Mr.. Peterson said he recognized
the young woman from her face and
a scar on an arm found in the pit.
A thigh also was unearthed.
Mr. Peterson, an automobile plant
assembly worker, described the vic
tim:
"She was from Georgia-spoke
with Southern accent. She was
about 20 or 80 years old, I judge,
with light brown hair Not a bad
looking woman
Mr.. Peterson said he knew Tar
quinio as Frank Marco, who had run
a tavern on South Broadway until
nine months ago. Since then,
Peterson said, Marco had been
working at the Sparrows Point steel
plant.
HE never discussed his business
with me-mtil last Saturday." Mr..
Peterson said About II o'clock
went out front and he was sitting on
his steps. He says to me:
Frank, Evelyn's gone again
"She had left his home three or
four times before since he's been liv-
ing here. I asked him where she'd
gone. He said:
'Aw, she's got plenty of friends.
She's been all over 18 States
''He told me later that he'd gone
around to the police station and re-
ported her missing"
Neighbor Heard Screaming.
Mr.. Peterson, whose house is sepa-
rated from Tarquinios only by a
wall, said he heard his neighbor and
Evelyn Rice come in about midnight
Thursday.
"You could hear them arguing"
he said. "It went on for about two
hours. Then she started to scream.
All of = sudden she stopped scream
ing. And I didn't hear any more Of
him. went to Sleep"
The next four days, Mr.. Peterson
said, he saw Tarquinio out in his
yard, Misunderstanding up the dirt
real fine and smoothing it all
out. ="
"Of course" he added, II read in
the papers about finding parts Of
this woman's body. And I thought
to myself it was kind of funny, the
way Evelyn disappeared one day
and they found those pieces next"
-Four newspaper-wrapped parcels
containing limbs and vital organs
were found within four blocks of
Taruuinio'S house.