The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-22
Garetto Case Goes to Jury
Tonight.
VERDICT GIVEN TOMORROW
R. A. HOar for the State and F. I. Laird
and W. A. Lord for Defence
Prosecuted Their Sides.

Montpelier, Dec. %. with the 6na
testimony introduced ia rebuttal thi
morning BY the prosecution, and the be
! ginning Of the arguments, the trial Of All
exander Garetto Of Barre, charged Will
the murder Of Eli Corti ia disturbance
In the Socialist hall In that city the nigh
of October B Is nearly finished Unles
something unforeseen happens the cas-
viii 90 70 the jury late this afternoon, anG
the trial for murder will have been com
pleted in the quick time of eight days OF
this as we'll as on alithe days of the trial
the accused man retained his c0mposure
taking, however, a keen Interest in all ths
proceedings.
Mrs. Garetto, wife Of the respondent
who has been a constant att ndant on the
trial, was accompanied this morning hv
her five year old daughter who. when she
caught sight Of her father inside the rail-
ing, waved her hand frantieally TO him.
| The father saw the child, smiled and
waved his hand ID acknowledgment.
Only three witnesses were put on In re-
bnttal this morning, John FL. Senter. who
appeared for the state before the
grand jury, Miss Martha Pr.ce, stenogra-
pher before the grand jury, aud Lorenza
Caslani.
few minutes after o'clock the state
finished lts rebuttal testimony and the def
fence announced it had nothing more to
offer The arguments were then begun.
Richard a, Hour opening for tina state. he
fpoke for Just an hour.
After brief recess Fred Il. Laird spoke
for the defence.
Mr. Laird closed his argument a few
minutes before noon. and after tha conrt
reassembled at 2 o'clock this afternoon
~ A- Lord gave his argument for the de-
Tense.
~ the five witnesses put on the stand |
by the defense yesterday afternoon, the tes-
tim0ny Of Joseph Bernase0ni, one Of the |
principal figures Id the disturbance, was
interesting and had direct bearing Oh
the case DR. Y. G. Goodrich, who pre-
eeded him, told Of attending to the infur- |
les Of g. Brussa, saying that be took sex
erai stitches In wound IN bis head, the
wound being three OF four inches long and
TO the skull The cut was an ineised
wound. aud was, he thought, INFLICTED bY
some sharp instrument.
Rernasc0ni said that he was at the hall |
on the night Of the disturbance. Among
those present we're Frnzetti. Garetto. Ell |
Corti, William Corti, T. Conf. Voehini, |
Comi's brother, Martino Rizzi and Zlni. |
There was trouble, and the witness went
oyer much the same ground that the other
witnesses for the defense had gone over I'M |
giving the events leading up Ia the dis |
turbance. The witness said that be re-
fused to 10 outside. whereupon Voehini
seized him by the neck and forced him to
the wall. Then Fruzetti and others got
up and began to pound the witness, amid
cries Of KilI him. Kill him
said the witness: ssFhere was large
CIRCLE about me. They threw me down
and must have Kicked me as my side was
sore for week. When | was on the floor
heard two shots. | thought had been
shot aud felt my body to see If they bit
me. The crowd left me, aud then Peter
Rizzl came up and pounded me and
scratched my face. After he left William
Gorti came Up and said, I'll my brother
dies you won't live another hour. z The
state objected 20 the last sentence, and the
sentence was ruled out. III response I'd
questions Belnasc0ni said that Vol
chini was an anarchist aud that Peter
kizzl said he was one. The witness saw
6aretto sitting two or three chairs from
the entrance smoking q cigar. Befnase0-
ni dld not speak % Garett0 and did not
hear him say sGuarde-Yous.
Ffauk Gomolii, Peter Eiseonti and Lou
is Peeetti we're on the stand but briefly. |
aud responded to but few questions, after
which the defense WIS concluded
in rebntial yesterday afternoon the state
lut on twelve Witnesses, two of whom /
were otalIowed by Judge stafford to tes-
tify bacansa they had been III tile court
room ct some time during the trial Those
whose testimony WAS net allowed for this /
reason were Frank piceiell and G Gram
al. The point Of rebuttal was to SHOW
that there was no disturbance near the en-
trance Whera Cortl was shot, before and i
ct the time he was shot. Most of the WIT
nesses said that there was no disturbance
at that place, and one witness asserted
that there was no blocking Of the doorway
at all. Alexander Gatton testified that
the passage was clear, and that there was
no fighting near the door when be vent
out. on er0ss-exaninati0n be admitted that
all the lighting he saw was between Ber-
nasc0Hi and Yoehini. Angelo Bianehi
said that he saw Albno Conti aud bis
wife at the hall, but didn't see them at
the time Of the shooting.
When William C0fti was placed On the
stand he was asked "Did you pound 0r
assist 10 pounding Garett0 near the door
Of the Socialist hall just before or at the
time Eli Carti was shot2e aud the witness
replied that lie did not, nor did he see 0r
Dear any disturbance near the door 81
Barr was asked, Were you under pay to
get evidence for the anarehlstsg and the
witness denied that he was. Peter RlMll
was almost the length oE the hall from
the entrance and did not hear any dis