The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-08

told the t1esa u q mon ey hat
made np the nay won come as ais.
money had e6nte 70 the black mana
society That night The witness was
further told that It was the, custom 81
the society to communicate o.Eealthyi
men directing them to give tle socisE
~ money, II there was noGespouse
to the communication the society pre-.
pared dckes, the number Of tickets
eorrespondi5k to the number ofamem-
bers OF the society directly ones Of tpe.
members to liil the person refusing.
The members would draw the tickets
one Of which should determine who
was to do the work.
TIE witness said that he prepared
1--WE silver certificates Of Ave dollaf
eaca. He took down the number Of
each note. he gave the money to
Frank Pisconiri. -Pisconiri gave 1t to
Tony cuzzola and later Plseoniri, ouz-
zola, Giuseppe cuzzola and Leonardo
Feraro went out of the house taxi
ing the money along.
After the initiation the witness went
into a room where the other ten de-
PENDANTS were assembled. They called
him brother and kissed him. Giuseppe
told him that now ne could hold the
honor.
The prosecuting attorney handed tae
witness a paper bearing the number
of the silver certificates and asked the
witness II he had put those figures Or
the paper. The witness said ti,at he
had and that they had been taken
from the notes that ne had given the
society. He was handed a FIVE dollar
silver certificate and asked II he had
seen IT before. He said that the mum
Der of the certificate was the same as
one that he had taken the number on
psner.
On yesterday the prosecuting attor.
ney offered a paper in evidence pur-
porting to be a receipt from Giuseppe
Cuzzola for Ave dollars that the wit
9uess had paid to Frank Plsconir, as
a part OF the Initiation fee. There re-
manned twenty-five dollars yet to be
paA. The receipt was admitted yes
terday but Cavano, the Interpreter,
could not read. 1t was translated BY
Polito this morning, and was a receipt
for the five dollars. The witness told
about the arrest made by the officers
and STATED that all these events took
place in Marion county. Here the ex-
animation in chief OF the prosecuting
witness ended.
On cross examination the attorneys
for the defense were unable TO snake
the evidence given b. the boy. II. N.
Ogden aaa the witness to wrEe the
names Of Giuseppe, CuzzSla anil Fran
cisco Piscaniri. He then had Beredel-
Ii copy the receipt that had been OF,
fered in evidence yesterday.
Young Beredelli said that ne took
the receipt because he I'D NOT want
to give the money blindly. He also
took the number Of the silver cerhfi.
Gates himself and was not toll tn He
said that he did not know that the off.
GERS were going to make raid on
house No. 80 taat night. He was
there when the officers entered the
house and did not make any signals
to the officers. The witness said that
he tried to get out of the house but
his time was taken up by the in!tia.
ton and shaking hands vita The 6ta-
er members the officers came to the
house. The members all kissed the
witness and told him that he should
know how to hold this little honor,
Giuseppe Ptyconiri was the arst 10
kiss MIN and tell him about tae hon.
or.
Counsel tried hard to bring out that
Gafseppe Piseontri's children wero
present that night. The witness said
that he did not see any of his chill.
tdrea except Francisco Piscontri, one
OF the defendants. Frank Pisconiri,
Antonio Cuzzola, Giuseppe cu2sola
and Felix Jentte told him that there
would be music at house 80 that
night.
After the arrest the witness vent to
his home at 100 Pixie street. alore. He
went to bed. He told no one about
the arrest of the nineteen defendants
4 Counsel for the defense pressed this
point but the witness was firm in his
denial that he had told any one about
the arrest. The witness could not tell
which Of the members laid tae reyol,
vers on the table. Tie room when
they went in was dark Antonio Cuz;
cola brought an oil lamp and the room
was lighted by the lamp. The revol.
vers were hanging on the wall sus.
pended from nails.
The counsel for the defendants tried
to bring out that the witness had
been reading italian newspapers. and
Italian books which contain stories