The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-24
FIFTH edition.
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER,
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Michael FaIno on trial by twelve
men on the Chargs Of
murder Of 2
CARLO RUVO,

When tho September term OF the
Court OF Oyer and Terminer opened
this morning, Deputy Attorney-Gen-lI
Ieral Giles moved to certiorari the case
Iof George Chambers. u colored boy,
IcharRad with tie manslaughter OF
another hoy ner Townsend on August
q. to the court from the general ses.
lsions court.
Ihos. Davis was assigned as counsel
flor the defense. Chambers was ar.
lraig ned and pleaded not guilty.
Michael Faino was then brought In.
ito court and placed In the dock be-.
tween two deputy sherilTs. The wit.
luesse5 for the defense were then
called. and several of the most impor.
liant were found to he absent.
The empuneiltng Of n jury wao then
begun. The first juror empanelled
was Samuel p. Bennett and the fol.
lowing are the other jurors; John ],
Mccoy, James Keegan. Israel Prit.
chard John Fisher j Ohm T. Royce, John
A, Cleaver. Benjamin Armstrong, Wm.
Graves, David SteelmnD. Montgomery
u Gray and William IL. Mccoy.
The following had conscientious
lscruples: Isnao Dickson, jackson
IWhiteman ard haI les Bascoe.
The prisoner challenged Thomas M.
Lefevre. william Davidson, James w.
Green, John /. Boyle, Joseph Edwards.
james Howard Webb, Dennis s.
Shields. Thomas Bratton, Clarence l.
Brockson.
The State challenged william Green,
George I. Bratton, John G. Johnson
Patrick Fuhey.
The following were excused for hav,
ling formed and expressed an opinion.
Richard l.. Lloyd. Jonu ". TagRart
John Wood. James McCray, Samuel
II. Herdman, Denny Smith, William
Ii. Klur, William OItourke
The history OF tho murder is simply
as follows; on the night OF April &c
last Carlo Ruvo the murdered man.
lahd Michaot faiuo uuarreled In a ga.
loon on Market above Front street,
l3uring agamo OF pool they had y
quarrel. Faino soon afterwards went
Ito his home. Ruvo and three othel
Italians then went to l0i Market
street to play game OF cards. They
Lad the Cal DIS dealt out and were just
labout to pick them up when faino en-.
tered, grabbed Ruyo by tho neck and
plunged knife into his throat.
'Ruvo's right chin was split open and
his windpipc and the adjoining artery
were severed.
When the man was picked up he was
dead Taino was chased for over
mile and half by Officer Davidson
and one of the Italians who was pres.
,ent at the tiIne tie man was stabbed.
The man was seer to throw the knife
away. which was shnrpaned down TO u
point like Il dagger, ~.
At the May term of court Faino's
counsel, Messre. Hilles and Is, rne.
secured continuance until this term
ioi oyer and Ierniner on account OF
tho absence of material witnesses. IL
WA f.tntfAaI at NJ that SaynrAl
Iyears ago Fnlno received blow in the
head w!ch hurt his Understanding.
1T WAS luther claimed that Rnyo was
10 fugitive from 1uetlce Hnd was con.
IsldcieG q bad man. and at the time
had loaded revolver on htH person. 3
The Attorney. General opened the
case by briefly outlining the distinc-
ltion between murder and man.
slaughter and between murder in the
'irst aud second degree. The evldeDos
would 10 iiIect AMI not clroumstanr
tinl lie dweit ON tho scutlle ut 100
Market street. the saloon In which
they were playing pool. and on the
case as described above In tho history
OF the murder. IL is not likely that q
might session will be held. 4
The jurors III attendance at the Oyer
and Ierminer and OH the special jury
were discharged until Thursday morn
Ing. ,
In. Chas. L. Baird testified to hav.
ing maze the post.mortem cxumina.
itiun and to the two wounds which no
found and to the time 1t would take
for man to die who would have re<
ceIvcd such a wound.
lJr. A. s. Harris gave similar tee 4
lmony, and illustrated for tho 1us
the way that the two wounds could
have been Inflicted by the Same blow.
the court then adjourned until 2,3o
O'Clock this afternoon.