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Frank Femia is Taken Into Custody in Bradford SCUTELLA THE VICTIM Frank Femia, an Italian who has been making Bradford his home re cently, and who says he is 25 although he appears about 30, was arrested on Davis street yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Ralph Knight and Deputy Sheriff Frank Annis of Cattaraugus county, New York, and City Detective Garin Fairbanks of the Bradford po lice force. Femia is charged with murder in the first degree in connec tion with the stabbing to death on September 13th, last, of Joseph Scu tella, Olean grocery store proprietor, on the Nine Mile road near Vandalia. Femia is the second man to be ar rested in connection with the Scu tella slaying. Thomas Del Gudice also was arrested in Bradford by New York and local authorities shortly af ter the crime. He already has been indicted on a murder charge at Lit tle Valley, N. Y. No Resistance Made Femia is said to have made no re sistance when arrested. “He had no chance to try to get away,” City De tective Garin Fairbanks said. The arrest was made on Davis street about 5 o'clock. The Cattaraugus county authorities had heard that Femia was in Bradford, it is said, and came here for the purpose of trying to locate him, calling on City Detec tive Fairbanks to aid in the search. They found Femia driving around in a light sedan said to be owned and driven by Joe Barber who was with Femia at the time the arrest was made, authorities say. Sheriff Knight drove his car around the one the officers were pursuing and at Oe ee ae ee ma st Detective Deputy Sheriff Vian drawn Detective Fon Ak both men before they quite realized what was happening. Black Hand Suspected The murder of Scutella, who was found alive but semi-conscious with numerous knife wounds in vulnerable parts of his body and who died a few hours later, was believed by Cat taraugus county authorities to have been the result of a black hand plot for revenge of Joseph Lioi, an Olean man, convicted of the murder of John Barber of Olean in 1925 and sentenced to from 20 years to life in Auburn state prison. Scutella, at the time Lid’s trial, was an important witness for the prosecution. Before he died, authorities say, Scutella told the names of the men who had done for him. The names of Del Gudice and Femia were those revealed by the dying man, authori ties say.
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Bradford Era
Bradford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Dec 30, 1927
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