The evening world., 1911-06-21
FATHER ON TRIAL
FOR Staying MAN
WHO KILLED SON
Emotional Insanity VIII Be
Defense of Giuseppe Bongi-
one, Accused of Murder.
SAW THE CRUSHED BODY
Lawyer Says Some One Gave
Revolver to Crazed Man
and He Shot.
SAW THE CRUSHED BODY

whether n man. reaching home after
his days work and seeing the dead
body Of his baby son and the driver OF
q wagon under the wheels OF which the
boy has Just been killed IL justified In
yielding TO the primal instinct that i'm
PEELED him TO kill that man. or whether
he was dominated by emotional insanity,
IL q question that a Jury In Part V. OF
the Court OF General Sessions Is being
assembled to-day to decide.
Giuseppe Bongtone. a sad-eyed, black
bearded man who has not quite reached
middle age. and who came to this coun-
try from Italy thirteen years & TO
ennse In his trade Of cigarmaker, Ia
shareed with the murder of william
Erueman. the driver OF = brewery
vaeon. On the afternoon OF April 2
Boneone returned to his home. No. as
EaA Forty-eiGhth street. and in the
centre Of Q large crowd saw a man
holdSnx the body OF his son, Paul. three
~ old. The boy, who had been
playing In the street. had been run over
by q heavy truck and b body was
barely recognizable.
Krueman. on the drivers SCAT Of the
truck. was pointed out to Bongione ~
the man h carelessness had caused
the death OF tho child.
BonEione rushed At Krugman. but
VA restrained by his friends. He then
lsvslled . pistol At the driver and
emptied it, chambers. Krusman was
killed instantly and the police had great
dimculty In taking Bongtons away from
the crowd.
Abe Levy, who b Bongione's lawyer.
wishes Q defense Of insanity. and says
he will prove that some one In the
crowd thrult . pistol into the fathers
hand. but he win also seek TO present
his evidence TO the Jury In such . wa
that the only consideration In their
minds wiz be to arrive at a conclusion
a. to what . mans natural impulse
would be in Such . stuat!on-tn other
words. TO have each Juror ask himself
what ne would DO were he TO suddenly
find his baby boy killed and see before
him the slayer.
In Q rear seat Of the courtroom. In
the mk1st Of q crowd OF her country.
men. the grandmother of the little boy
who was killed sat with two Of her
other Nrandchiidre en-, . giri and a boy,
She wept aloud At the nght Of the pr.s.
Ou0Ie LII tuO olib4IVils GSiu tnSlf
father In charge of q policeman, caught
the Infection N sobbed with her.
BonGione seemed haif-stupeied at
nnding himself on trial. He kept his
head bowed. his eyes bent on the table
before him. N his general attitude wal
that OF q man whose mental capacity
has been stunned by a tragic grief. the
memory OF which might at any time
bring an outburst Of passion from him
Tho work Of getting n Jury was very
siow. Nine out of ten talesmen were
pretudiced against the death penalty
and there were many objections from
counsel because OF the peculiarly sym.
pathetic features of the case.
Another difficulty was that many o
the talesmen knew Abraham Levy. On
remembered that Mr.. Levy had draw
up Q blu OF sale for him and was pal,
$3.50 a. q fee twenty-seven years ago
end another was a member OF MI
bsvys club. The panel was exhausted
bsfore recess and Judge Foster an
nouncsd that there were no tslesmel
available
An adjournment was taken until to
usorrow.