Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-19
THE CoCHRANE MURDER.

THE COCHRANE MURDER. Rossi,s Preliminary Hearing In the City Court Yesterday-The Testi- mOny of Witnesses as to How the Murder Was Committed-The Ac. cused Bound over.
 The city court room was crowded yester- day morning with people who wished to | see Giacomo Rossi and hear his trial. The docket was a short one, and after it the case of the young Italian was called. Rossi was accompanied by Arthur De Fillipo, the Boston lawyer who came on to defend him. Judge Pickett suggested that as MT. Fill lipo was not praoticing attorney in this state, it would be more regular if some member of the New Haven bar would make a motion for him to practice in the city court. The motion was made by Coroner Mix.
 Rossi was very nervous and had down. cast look. He did not make favorable impression upon the on-lookers. MT. Fil- lipo was appointed guardian of the &C., cused, and he was put to plea on the charge of willfu1 and malicious murder. He
 seemed at loss what to say, and his law yer had to remind him that his plea was not guilty.
 He answered "Not guilty" and City At-
 torney Dow called the first witness, William
 Coughlin of 558 Grand avenue, who was
 one of the party of young men with whom young Cochrane was at the time of the
 murder. He saw the affair. The first
 thing he noticed was Tommy falling in the gutter. Then he saw him get up, and as
 he did so Rossi thrust at him three times
 with knife. Once the knife seemed to
 go into Tommy's body. The blade seemed
 to be big one.
 On cross- examination Lawyer Filippo se- ! cured @ more complete account of the af- fair, but the witness still stuck to his story
 that Tommy was in the gutter and didn't
 strike Rossi, but was stabbed when he at
 tempted to get up.
 pr. Luby, into whose office Cochrane
 was carried after the stabbing, was called. | He testified as to the location and charac- ter of the wound which caused Cochrane's ! death. A knife shown to him which was given to the police yesterday morning, and
 which is said to have been found near the scene of the murder, was not in his opin. ion the weapon which caused the wound Dr. Luby said he did not think Coch
 rane was under the influence of liquor
 when he saw him, and Dr. White replied
 that he found no evidence of liquor in the ! post-mortem, but he would not swear tha
 Cochrane had not been drinking shortly , l before his death.
 John Shaw of 215 Franklin street wa the next witness. He said he was witt 3 seven fellows walking up Wallace stree ? on the afternoon of July 3. The fellow were besides himself, William Coughlin the first witness. Walter Davis, Danie Flavahsn, John Sullivan, Henry Cochran . l and Thomas Cochrane. He said Tomm. Q stopped to talk to Rossi and his compan a ions who were sitting in a doorway. He \. the witness, and the rest of the party kep on walking over to the opposite corner e Tho first thing he knew somebody said }, saw Tommy in the gutter trying to get u Il and the Italian made two lunges at hir @ with knife. Afterward he saw Henr s Cochrane, who had gone to his brother 10 ! rescue, strike Rossi On cross examinatio
 Mir. Filippo showed that Shaw testified di1 E ferently on this point at the coroners 1T '1 quest.
 'e were the last two witnesses called by tt oI state, and their story agreed fairly we to with the story of the others. at Attorney De Filippo did not put in an
 evidence for the defendant, his object j 10 questioning the states witnesses evidentl [o being for the purpose of finding out whs
 sort of case the state had.
 Judge Pickett bound the accused over M l the January term of the superior cou " without bonds.
 of The knife which was shown in court Id said to have been found the morning aft
 the murder near where the cutting occu
 ed.
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