Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-05-12 | Page 7 | Danced on a Corpse

DANCED ON A CORPSE Murderer Mutilates His Victim in a Most Horrible Manner and Finishes Fin-ishes Work With a Jig Bridgeport Con May Lavrence Bressano a fireman in the Atlantic hotel ho-tel crept Into the meat room this morning and apllt the skull of Michael Tornish the chef with a meat cleaver He then took a large butcher knife and slashed the body cutting off the nose and ears gouging out the eyes and cutting strip aflor strip of the flesh off the victims face When the upper part of the body was unrecognizable J3rosano Jumped on it and danced from the head to the feet Upon the arrival of the police who ere attracted by the frenzied yells of the murderer Cressano turned his ai Icnllon to hits wouldbe onplors lie was not subdued until knocked scnac ie5 Hrcspano at police headquarters acknowledged ac-knowledged the murder and said he felt bftlUr for having committed It It Is believed that trouble over a woman led him lo kill Tornish