The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-13
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
LAUDANO, THE ACCUSED, ON THE
 STAND YESTERDAY.

| Stuueht sCuiey is oNcA to | the Superior Court-Matters In tho i Common Pleas mud City Courts. Yesterday afternoon the last witness | for the defense in the Laudano murder | trial was heard, anG after that Lau- dano himself was put on the stand | The accused was called to the stand | by Judge Blydenburgh. his senior coun- sel, at 1 o'clock Although he could speak English fairly well it was l thought that his testimony could be better understood if given through an interpreter, and accordingly Antonio Spinello was called to interpret his ev- idence.
 Laudano admitted that the woman Nellie Slater, who was at his house on
 the night when the shooting took place,
 wore mans clothing for short time that evening and went out with that clothing on, but said that she put on her own habilaments sometime before
 the police officers came to the house. He said that when the officers came to
 the door he opened it and they said
 that they wanted a woman there who was dressed in mans clothing. Wit ness told them that there was no such woman there and the officers looking on into the hall saw woman there and said that she was the one whom they
 wanted, Witness asked it they had warrant for her arrest, and was told that they had not,
 Iaudano said that the policemen kept pushing on into the hall and one put club against witness and pushed him back. Some one behind witness called out Look what he has in his hand Laudano then said that he turned around to look for q stick and as he did so some one shot him. Then the light went out and he put his leg for ward and ripped a policeman who stood in front of him. The witness was asked to illustrate this, and step ping to the middle of the court room he illustrated using his junior counsel as the subject.
 Laudano said after he ripped the policeman he fell upon him and put one leg on his thigh and with the left hand reached out and grabbed revolver which the policeman had. While do- ing this he heard some one behind him
 
 hand fired one shot back of him. Af- ter he fired he tried to get up, but the man underneath held him down. but witness suddenly wrenched himself away and got up. He didn't have the revolver then and didn't know whether it had fallen from his hand or what had become of it.
 After getting up he walked on his hands and knees to the back room and upstairs. After he got upstairs he heard four shots fired in the hallway below
 Witness went into a room upstairs and got a hammer which he had there and went down stairs As he went down he heard some one in the hall and thought that it was Jimmy (the boy Scalley who was in the house). But as he got nearer witness saw that 1t was Policeman Turbert, and heard him swearing. He said that Turbert grab bed him and that then he struck Tur- bert with the hammer and knocked him down. Witness then tried to close the door and lock 1t, but couldn't because the catch was gone. He then took an iron bar and barred the door.
 witness Ileti. -LIiiiihlilS thdt ite Hetu hurt Turbert badly, went upstairs, got his money there and his razor, and then went down stairs, hearing as he did so, some one trying to break in the door Witness took the bar away from the door and ran to the back door. As he was about to go out there he saw an officer coming in the front door. Witness ran out the back way to Union street, then to Fair street to find some one to give him pair of trousers. Then he went back to Union street. then to Water street. then to Olive street, where he had his wound dressed by physician. From the physicians he went to Hamilton street, and from there to Colis street, where he found a man who gave him a pair of pants and a jumper. He then went to Water street, and said that at the corner of Water and Olive street he met two po- licemen who asked him where he was going. He replied that he was going to work and they let him go on. He went then to Fair street. and seeing large crowd at the corner of Fair and Prin- dle street he thought that "he had done great" and thought that he might have killed Turbert with the blow of the hammer, and that there were three of the policemen and they might try to throw everything on him, so he ran back and went through Olive street and on towards the depot. While going there he saw an officer in citi- zens clothes, who told him that he was looking for a party. Witness asked who, and the officer told him that a murder had taken place Witness said: 1T said I hadn't killed anybody. The | officers had shot me. I said, T am the party and I surrendered myself and then he took me to the depot and 1 another policeman was there and said | that I was the man."
 At this point Judge Blydenburgh ask ed State Attorney Williams if he had | the hammer with which Laudano | struck Turbert and MT. Williams ob- | jected to the question in that form be- | ing asked before the jury. Judge Bly, | then produced a hammer and | said that it resembled the one | which he used
 Evidence had been produced by the state to show that I4audano used on the l night of the shooting a revolver with | which he was shooting last Fourth of | July. Laudano said on the stand yes-