The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-10-17
Mnrder Trial.

Murder Trial.
i Before Judge Voorhees,, yesterday
morning, the case of Salvatore Jacono wa
taken up. He is charged with the murde
Of Giuseppe Mattero di Giovano. OF
August 26th last, in Willing5oro township
by shooting with revolver. The fata
bullet entered the head of deceased, above
the ear. The defendant fed and aftel
going through swamps and over farms
was finally caught on a trolley car al
Moorestown. The state charged that the
act was deliberate and wilful and the de-
PENDANT is guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Prosecutor Atkinson appeared for the
state; Robert Peacock, of Mount Holly.
and @. Stuart Patterson, Jr., of Philadel-
phia, represented the defendant.
John w. Harris identified and explained
q map he made of the house and premises
where the murder occurred. Also identi-
fed number of photographs of the place.
James NJ. Stokes said he employs Italians
in digging sand on his property along the
creek In Willingboro township. The de-
PENDANT and the murdered man were in
witness employ. After the crime Mr..
Stokes saw the defendant In marsh, run
ming away. His knowledge of the crime
was all hearsay.
Henry Bailey, who runs the locomotive
In the Stokes sand pits, was In the house
when the crime occurred. He heard two
men having an alteration outside the
house-the defendant and Giovauo. He
looked out the window and saw the
prisoner fire five shots at Giovsno. All
conversation was In italian. which witness
could not understand. Gioyano died al
most instantly. The defendant ran away,
going toward woods and marshes.
Francisco Jacono was in the room with
Bailey when the trouble occurred. He
heard the conversation between the two
men outside and went to the window to
see the quarrel. Glovano said to the pris-
oner. II am going to blind your eyes. i"
The latter replied, go away" Giovano
continued, II am going to kill you. y
Jacono then he shot five times In rapid
succession at Giovano. who dropped dead.
Defendant had knife in one hand and q
revolver in the other When the shooting
occurred, Jacono was moving away from
Giovano.
Sylvestino Mattero worked for Mr..
Stokes when the murder occurred and
heard the shooting, but did not see the
revolver fred. He looked out window
and saw Giovano fall to the ground. De-
PENDANT ran away and was chased by wit
ness. who fred gun after the fugitive
and was fred at twice in return. None of
the shots took effect.
DIR. r. 81. Parsons made post norton
examination of the murdered mans body.
Death was caused by hemorrhage OF the
brain, caused by bullet which entered
the head slightly above the left ear. DR..
Stroud. of Moorestown, was present at
postmortem and corroborated the above
evidence.
Coroner William Grobler said he found
no weapons In the dead mans clothes.
Jacob @. Walters and Isaac Reeves,
motorman and conductor, testified that
the defendant boarded their car that day
at the mount In Mount Holly and remain
ed on the car until 1t reached Moorestown,
where he'was arrested. The mans trous-
ers and shoes were wet.
Thomas Murphy. Moorestown police
man. said he arrested the defendant A
revolver containing two loaded cartridges
was taken from the prisoners pocket.
Alphonso Fusco, state detective, said
he saw the prisoner in Jail on the day af-
ter the murder. The defendant said: 1--WE
done it; I've killed him. They can put me
in jail If they want to. This thing had to
come and I am not sorry. l shot at him
three times" There had been hard feel
ing between the men over dispute about
some rabbits and chickens. They had had
several quarrels at different times, one of
which was early ON the morning of the
crime.
Mr.. Patterson made the opening address
for the defence. He stated 1t would be
shown that the dead man had an ungovern-
able temper, always carried weapon, had
made repeated threats against defendant;
that on the night before he had said, Pm
going to drink your blood" That morn
ing Mattero picked q quarrel with defend
ant aud attacked him, so that the prisoner
had to shoot In self defence.
Salvatore Jacono. the defendant, testified
that he feared Mattero, who was large,
muscular man, and had bad reputation.
This man and witness had had several
quarrels and Mattero had threatened to
Kill the defendant; I'm going to drink
your blood, he said the night before the
murder. On that morning, while the two
were at breakfast, Mattero took witness
plate and threw 1t out the window; also
choked witness. 81 then left the building,
to avoid trouble. and finished eating out
doors. Mattero came out, advanced to-
ward me. making threats, so pulled my
revolver and fired.
The case is being continued to-day.