The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-08
LOOKS BADFOR
MEN ON TRIAL
FOR MURDER
Recognized by Woman Who
Was Awakened by Shoot.
ing Of Syrian. :.
Especial to the Evening star.l


JERSEY CITY, Oct. 8.-Witnesses
the trial of the seven men charged
with the murder of Joseph Coury, a
Syrian, at his embroidery factory, SIG
Monastery street, West Hoboken, on
the night of January 2S last, who posi-
lively identified the prisoners as men
they had seen in the factory and
vicinity hat night, n their testi-
mony created a sensation.
The first of these witnesses was Mrs.
Wynn, who lives in. a house in the
front of the lot at 516 Monastery street.
in the rear of which the factory is To-
Gated. She testified that she vas
awakened on the night of the murder
by three revolver shots. She hurriedly
arose and, running to a window, say
two more shots fired on the dark fac
tory. She screamed, and as she did
so she saw Coury come stumbling out
of the factory dressed only in his
underclothes, and closely followed by
Daube Rick and Solomon Orraye.
On cross-examination by Mr.. Hud-
speth, for the defense, it was shown
that in an affidavit made by Mrs.
Wynn to assist the State in having
the men %extradited from New York
she had stated that the men who fol-
lowed Coury were Rizk and Elias
Orraye, but she explained this by say
ing that she got the names mixed.
She was positive that Solomon was
the man she had seen. She was put
under a long fire of questions by Mr..
Hudspeth, but he didn't succeed in
shaking her testimony to any consid-
cradle extent.
Edward Napivoda, who keeps a sa-
loon at the corner of Morris n Spring
streets, near the factory, was next
called and he identified the men
charged with the murder as members
of a party of nine that had visited his
cafe that night. He said they came in
two at a time and played pool and
drank all the time. joking among them
selves and with several other custom
ers. He later retracted his first state
ment, and said that Elias Orraye vas
not among the men who came to his
place that night.
Shortly after IL o'clock they all left
and he prepared to close up about /
O'clock. AS he was doing so he CHANGED
to step to a window and saw a mar
come staggering up the street in un-
uGIClOlll1lS. AS lie TGdCilCQ d pidCE III
the gutter, about thirty-five feet down
the street, on the opposite side, he fell
in a heap in the snow. Napivoda rushed
out. and, seeing the mar was wounded,
he blew a whistle for assistance.
Policemen responded and the man
was put on a car and taken to the
West Hoboken police station, where he
died.
Napivoda had noticed that John Cas-
TINS, one of the men who had been
in his saloon, got on the car with the
crowd that took the man to the po-
lice station. He said he noticed Coury
in the street also at twenty minutes
after the men had left his saloon.
DIR. Charles Converse, county ply
stefan, was then called by the State,
and he described the wounds he found
on the body of Coury when he per-
formed an autopsy. He said that most
of the wounds were in the stomach.
Then Patrolman McLockland, who arrested
Matalas near the scene Of the crime, was
called. He said at about 1890 on the nigh
of the murder he heard a whistle and
ran to the saloon of Napivoda, where he
found the body of a man lying in the
gutter.
He sent for a patrol wagon and then
began to look about the street. He saw
three men standing at the corner OF
West and Monastery streets and started
toward them; as he did so they dispersed
/, and one started to run along West street
He gave chase and overlook the man two
blocks away. He asked him where he
was going and the man who later turned
out to be Matalas, said he was trying tC
get a car.
McLockland took him to the police sta
| tion and then returned to the factory
? where he found a revolver lying on the
5 floor and the furniture badly disarranged
The revolver had five empty cartridges
AS Mrs. Wynn had testified that she heard
but five shots 1t seems entirely possible
] that one man did the killing. M~cLocklan6
said he found young Ged at the door ano
took him to the police station.