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Show VIL EYE" FORCES KILLER TO MAKE FULL CONFESSION Italian Admits He Slashed 'U to Death Old Woman of III Repute. Jamestown. .. Y. Tlie weird p"'-ver 0f "'e e, said I.i have Im -x-e'lsed during htr life by Mrs. Uborio pcrassa, whose mutilated body was fj'imd on the bank of the Chadakein river near here, was potent even after her death to force a confession from j rank Soriano, in the opinion of Italians Ital-ians here. Seriano, one of three prisoners suspected sus-pected of the murder, was questioned for two hours by the police In the dimly lighted morgue. A few fe.d a"'ay, on a slab, lay the body of the dead woman, her head nearly severed from her body, a cross cut on her face and her mouth slit from ear to ear. For most of the two hours he held out, and then suddenly broke down, Slashed Her Throat and Threw Her t Body Into a Heap of Brush. and in a signed statement confessed his guilt and exonerated the other two suspects. Slashed. With Razor, Seriano., who served two yctrs In Auburn prison for shooting a man in Glean, said lie had been one of a (group of men attendh a party near Mrs. Sperassa's home, where he boarded, board-ed, when she pasted on the street. The crowd jeered at her, lie said, and jihe picked up a slone and hurled It nt hem. It struck Seriano and he started start-ed after the old woman. Mrs. Sperassa fled, but Soriano said lie caught her near the river, and slashed her with a safety-raz4ir blade, throwing her body Into a heap of brush, where it was found several hours later by a workman. The police po-lice searched the scene of the murder for the razor, but failed to find it. It was said here that In the past Mrs. Sperassa had foretold disasters j which later came true. One man re- I turned to Italy, it is said, on the ad Vice of the aged wonun, to whom Borne went for advice, and others avoided. One man is reported to hnv J fluarreed with Mrs. Sperassa two' years ago and to, have fallen from a j bridge to his death shortly afterward. J Children fled from hor, and supersti- J tlous neighbors feared her anger. i Weird Influence. j Roomers who lived with Mrs. Sperassa Spe-rassa assert she exercised some weird , Influence over them. Seriano says that on several occasions he was beaten beat-en by her for bringing home fish that tie had caught In Chautauqua lake, be- ; pause she asserted that an evil power thrived In the left eye of a flsh when tt was brougnt over her threshold. i gprlano says that he was only one of her roomers held In mortal fear of tier, lie says that It was her power that brought him back to peer into the windows of her home after the murder. |