The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1905, Page 25

The‘fip Prints More News Than Any Other Paper PuinShediin San Francisco madle at San Francisco for V v hours ending midnight, April 9: | San Francisco and viclnity—Cloudy | : Sunday; brisk west wind. : District Forecaster ; FIFTY-TWO PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, A]"RIL 9, 1905—PAGES 25 TO 88 POLICE SAY PIETRO TORTURITI MURDERED VILARDO FINDING OF BLOODY CLEAVER IS FOLLOWED BY THE ARREST .OF SUSPECT’S WIFE AND THREE MEN | | A. G. McADIE, ! | | | _ ?iaggio Vilardo was murdered at 736 1-2A Green street. - The police are certain that he was killed by Pietro Torturiti, another Sicilian, and have arrested Tor- turiti’s beautiful wife on suspicion that she was an accomplice. It is believed that her beauty was employed to lure Vilardo to the place s_elected by plotters for the taking of his life. A shred of flesh was found on an apron of hers. Three other suspects are held. Chief of Police Dinan declares he will stamp out the Mafia. D Shred of Flesh on Apron Thought to Connect Woman | BEL EVE | , With Ghastly Crime Charged Against Her Husband WILL RID WOMANIS , ' S T G IN PLOT, g | OF MAIA Mrs. Torturiti I8 Chief Dinan Says Taken Info | He Will Root It Out. Custody. | Police Locate House Vilardo's Fate Stirs | Police Against Where Murder || Putier Occurred. I i Detectives to Be Detailed Bloody Cleaver and Bonesli Tell Mute-Tale of the - || 4 - t0.Run.the.Murderous | ¢/~ Band to Earth. Awfal Deed. . San Francisco shall be rid of the dread Mafia. | | No secret organization of cutthroats and murderers shall carry on its blood- thirsty plottings in this fair city. I am determin- ed to root out the “Black Hand” that terrorizes in- nocent people and makes the taking of human life a part of its business. I believe the murder of Vilardo can be traced to this organization of vic= ious plotters. I believe that he was coldly mark- ed as a victim of the ven- detta. This horrible l crime is a typical deed of 27809 7“0,’{;7'”1777 w707 R A7 so-called Mafia bands. Men and women shall la murdered man | | Vand mi | | Lo Her Charms May Have Been Employed to|fot be marked for death | A For:o or giving ugterat_xce to s 2ETECTIES 9 ioR Lure the Unfortunate Sicilian Laborer their convictions in San | AND BARRISON, fo° Plast ot Butchery. Francisco. No band of conspirators shall carry : 4 SR & on operations that savor She Is Held in City Prison With Her Infant,|of the dark ages, and the at the woman par- They be ness to lure Vilardo ’ : - H 3 lodgings. u:" i3 but Sulenly Denies That She Knows Folice: Depaetumat 1o.ge ue that her husband ¢ ing to stamp out the or- iy Anything of the Murder. ization. — Statement rk of a secret e . . o assert of Chief of Police Dinan. et preighien A barticle of human flesh found| Whenever the child became fretful| The Police Department is much he. e tanks | upon a gingham apron may prove to | She soothed it mechanically. worked up over the Vilardo murder and ‘ — 4| ve a lnk connectinf Mrs. Torturiti| ‘I de not understand,” she mut-|he laying bare of evidence of the ex- All of s and were identifie r with the Joseph Bro- tered whenever a rtinent question ALLEGED MURDERER OF BIAGGIO VILARDO, HIS WIFE AND CHILD; THREE MEN wWHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE With the crime her husband so flend- | (o % o g pe a istence of a Mafla society In San Fran- KNOWLEDGE OF THE CRIME, DIAGRAM OF HOUSE WHERE SICILIAN MET DEATH AND DETECTIVES ARRBST- | ishly committed. cisco. Drastic measures are to be taken G & 1 In face and feature she is a true B e A S UBALAS S kv . 4| . During the search for evidence in | daughier. of Sicily, the land of the | 3t once to stamp out the savage band. . . h;:fi ‘V‘;.n. hr;\f;r:‘:‘:: i Tofi TUR/TI S W/FE SEE” To E”TEH HOUSE 0F DE‘ T” ':gs‘\:“ Z:D:“)n hmyde“ away -in the| times there . is a flush in them that | a number of the blackest crimes in the b ned through Fre- | corner of the bedroom. The detec- | shows the daughter of a race that does history of the United States can have TWICE AFTER MURDER HAD BEEN COMMITTED, |5 ot ond sn biova on i Be | biooa o o 7 MM ©f MDA {no toothoid in this city, deciare ehe yo- lice. The war of exterrhination is to be was about to cast the apron to one| She would be regarded a beauty side when he was startled by the dis- | among men of the character of Vilardo | Waged under the personal direction of covery of a small particle of human | and the suspects that were arrested | Chief of Police Dinan and is to begin E. Zitzka Says He Watched the Woman as She Opened and Shl.lt flesh and a blood spatter. The detec- | yesterday. If the scowl that now seems | at once. There will be no cessation of tive carefully removed the flesh from | stamped upon her face were removed, | effort, he announces, until every mem- F—t ad moved to some place | eet, near Mason ym Gibgon, Ed Gibson Horacs. % the apron and preserved it in a bottle | jt would be easily seen how her smiles ciety has been dri rediately started out on | b 2 A ‘the Cits ber of the dread society ha en drive formation. ana. locaia | Door Behind Her on Thursday and Friday Mornings. o Mloarell I s ghven 1o the CIC | might win man ke the victimy - | LISy cue city. r before dawn. They | ‘ familt ith the Lat: S s poar Abor and wu?\{ 2 of the apron was made and more | asked. Detectives familiar w e in ot | ’ traces of blood were found- e, Rt Gnderatana quarter and having a knowledge of the Px:p 11,: da;[r&::;muf m’: | An all important clew to the possible | captured there yesterday morning, the| “That woman came to the house on This ghastly clew leads the police to | .Djdn't you see the blood in the | various tongues spoken there will be e e e aare pibe | capture of the murderer of Vilardo was |landlord is prepared to swear he saw | Thursday and Friday mornings about| believe that the woman helped o | oomo» Qetalled for the work. Threats of as- n they mnoti (?‘flar lur g et up last night when it was dis- | her and that she acted in a suspicious | 7 o’clock,” ‘said Zitzka. last night, “and | clear away the evidence of the crime| o1 44 not understand.” sassination that have thrown Littie . > % ed a s, oW T well. usl ¢ - e, dark stain that could not | of the man for whom. the police 8Te |and cach time she remained In the | she capried a bundle with her cnd e | o ahe woman whose beauty is be- | (o, YEry auestion—"T do not under- | gvail against the police. away. It was human blood. | gcouring the town, paid two Visits 1o | house for some length of time. acted in a very suspicious manner. She | lieved to have lured the untorlumee T AL Chief Dinan in ‘“'f‘“"“‘i_““, t"""'., tily the aetectheskmm ed throvuxh | the house of death on Green street on | It is the opinion of the landlord that | remained in the house for some length | Vilardo to his terrible death {8 held mc;od? her h .h.n:l."den“’ D last wiant sid "'3‘ :rt.h Captain se of crime, looking into every | (pe mornines of Thursday and Friday |the woman’'had just left her husband | of time and left the place hurriedly. | at the City Prison. She Is scarcely o The expres- | after a consultation of Finally Detective Ed Gibson | 5 twithstanding her statement that she {on each occasion and that he = dis- S the cleaver stowed beneath a|jeft the house early Thursday morning |patched her to the house where the : n the kitchen at the rear of the | gng did not return yesterday. She was | dismembered remains lay for the pur- | 1 Was comimg out of my house on It had been washed and care- | geen by E. Zitzka, landlord of the | er! e ¥ 1 and as she sat with | Sion on her face reads plainly, “You | petectives Burnett to take steps to root ‘WOMAN I8 STARTLED. ’ ;“;"p::’a’; "b-"’,; in her arms might | Will get nothing out of me.” There IS | the Mafla out in short order. Several 5 have been a study for Madonna and |2 deflance in it. Never yet has there | pjain clothes men will be sent forth into s pose of scouting around and seeing that | Friday morning, when I saw her en- Chtli but for the dogged sullenness| Deen a case where the Mafla's agents | the district where abide the memberd ¥ wrapped in @ €opy of The Call | pouse, who resides in the upper fiat. |there was no one who sus, that | tering the place. She looked up in a | o her on. Were Detrayed by their brethren. That | of this murderous band. The identity re. - —— | " Although the woman denies absolute- 'a crime had been committed in the | ————— "~ — &. shrank from every glance and of the detectives will be kept a seeret Continued on Page 26, Column 5. ]u having visited the place till she was neighborhood. Continued on Page 26, Column 6. lowered her head when spoken to.' Continued on Page 27, Coluumn 6. |so as to facilitate their work. J