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Show I5 Slayers Young Sicilian Are Arrested, i' Persons Who Slaughtered Bjaggio Vilardo Are r' Run Down. i San Francisco Police. Find the Parties ij Who Brutally Murdered a Companion. SAN" FRANCISCJO. April S.-Tho mys-Ury mys-Ury of the murder of Blnpgio Vilardo, tho younp Sicilian who was killed with ii cleaver on Wednesday evening, and j whoEO head, nrms and legs woro hacked j from tlio bleeding trunk, has been solved. 1 ?i Green street, In the bouso of Ij Pletro Torchlrlto, also known as Peter Torch!, who Is believed by tho detectives to bo tho murderer, and who Is In hiding. I' ills wife Rosa, as well as Phlppo Fe ll reltta, SaJvator Morando and Rasalro Do ll mlna, wanted aa witnesses, have been ar rested, and tho police' expect soon to havo j Tcrchlrlto In custody. The bloody cleavor Ii with which the man was cut down has M been found, and In tho basement of tho house woro discovered mlsslntr bones of tho victim. Missed the Young Man. ; Blagplo roomed in the plnca and boarded vlth tho family. On Wednesday Mrs. f Torchlrlto went out whllo her husband and Vilardo wero at supper. When she returned at night she missed tho young t man and asked what had become of him. k Her husband cut her short with tho rc- jj mark that It was nono of her business. j Scene of Tragedy. h tA. search of tho house showed that VI- 1 lnrdo's room had been tho sceno of tho i. tcrrlblo tragedy. It boro tho appearance 'I of a slaughter-house, all offorta to rcmovo I signs of tho crlmo having proven unavall- !l Ing. In a lower part of the building '; human bones, not yot dry, and a blood- I covered cloavcr, such as aro used by ! butchers and fishmongers, were unearthed, un-earthed, and the detectives pronounced I the chain of evidence against Torchlrlto J complete. I "Who Domina Is. I RosRlro Domino, ono of tho persons now In custody. Is the witness In tho Bro-gardo Bro-gardo murder caso who at first was supposed sup-posed to bo tho victim of tho vongeanco of tho "Blick Hand" society, which, tho officials think, planned thn removal of those whoso testimony might convict th.o asssslns Vilardo was cn Intimatd friend of Brogardo, collected money to defray I his funeral expenses, nnd was supposed to be active In tho prosecution of his flaycrs. Friend of Family Arrested. After the police took possession of tho Torchlrlto homo today, 3am Bossafrume, a friend of tho family, called, and was 1 Immediately arrested. He eald that he kneu' nothing of the murder, but admitted ad-mitted that Mr. and Mrs. Torchlrlto, with their llve-months'-old child, stayed at his house on Thursday night. Tho detectives aro confident that they also were there on Friday night, and think that Torchlrlto Torchl-rlto Is not far away now, though his wife disclaims all knowledge of his whereabouts. wherea-bouts. Suspected Murdorer Is Young Man. The suspected murderer is an cmployco of the American Can company. Ho Is about twenty-six years of age, llvo feet three Inchos tall nnd weighs 110 pounds. The ghastly burden ho Is supposed to have carried from ills home on Wednesday Wednes-day night weighed 130 pounds. His wlfo Is a young and attractive woman, and tho detectives arc now dividing their soarch for a motive between tho theories of Jealousy and tho operations of a secret se-cret Hoclety Attempt to Conceal Evidence. The murderer attempted to conceal nil evidence of his crlmo bv whitewashing tho wall of tho room In which it was committed, but crimson stains aro plainly plain-ly vlslblo through -the now whlto surface. sur-face. No Cause for Jealousy. - Mrs. Torchlrlto declares that neither sho nor Vilardo ever gave tho husband any cause for Jealous suspicion. 9ho assert that she has been in constant- dread of , her husband, who has a very violent temper, but says that on tho night VI lardo was slaughtered sho was not awnro that they had quarreled in any mnnncr over her. Guided to Victim's Home. When Vilardo's body was recognized vestcrdav bv Phlppo Foreltta, Captain of Detectives Burnett detailed Detective Sergeants Ser-geants Ed Wren, Ed Gibson and Dotec-tlvo Dotec-tlvo Matthlson to remain with Foreltta all night and today, after constant urg Ing and threatening. Fcreitta guided tho police to tho homo of the alleged mur derer. |