Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-26
BOTH ITALIANS ARE GUILTY.
Antonio ImperiO and Phillip ROberti Tried Here
for Murder.

W get. wren dSkeQ why lie r6plleO
that this would be made known when
the trial came on.
When the state rested its case DIR.
R. A. Poynton OF Chicago was called
in behglf of the defense. He testi-
fed to having been Imperio's family
physician in Chicago and that the
man generally bore good reputation,
so far as he knew.
Attorney Van Doren said that the
defense admitted that at the time of
Imperios arrest he was on his way
out of the state, but that he was un-
aware that warrant had been is
sued for his arrest; that he did not
know that Radcliffe, Hanson and
Carter were officers; that it was Rad
cliffe who called the Italians around
the corner of the building; that it
was fact that Imperio had about
5000 in his pockets; that the sheriff
and Hanson grasped his arms and he
thought they intended to rob him;
that he attempted to draw revolver
to defend himself and that in the
struggle the weapon was discharged
several times. The attorney said
that the state admitted that the
officers had been shot.
Atty. f. p. Regner for Roberti
moved for the dismissal of his client
on the ground that no evidence had
been brought to show that Roberti
had taken any part in the shooting.
This was denied.
Roberti was put on the stand and
through Catholic priest as an inter
prefer said that he had been in this
country four years. He had worked
in saloons in Hurley bearing such
names as the White Bear, the Grand,
the White Front, etc. Asked if it
was not fact that all were houses
of prostitution he said he had seen
no women about the places except
the proprietors' wives. He was
asked if it was not fact that he
had been chased out of Hurley by
the authorities, to which his attor-
ney objected and the objection was
sustained. He admitted that he left
Rhinelander because of fear of arrest.
He said that at the time of the shoot
ing he did not have a revolver, and
that what other with esses testified
as a revolver in his hands when run
ming away from the scene of the
shooting, was only pop bottle.
| Imperio stated that he had resided
in this county for the past nineteen
years; that he came up into Wiscon-
sin for his health; that he left Rhine
lander because his brother had told
him there was going to be trouble
because of a girl which the sheriff
had taken out of the latter's resort;
that he did not know that warrant
had been issued for his arrest and
that the officers who arrested him
showed no stars or other insignia of
office. He drew a revolver he said
when the three men searched Roberti
thinking that they were bent on rob
berry. 1t was discharged in the strug-
gle with the officers, but not inten-
tionally.
| Imperio denied that he had been
informed in any way that Radcliffe,
Hanson and Carter were officers. He
had about $225 on his person, and
when he saw Carter and Hanson
searching Roberti he thought that he
and his partner had fallen in with
highwaymen, and his first thought
was to protect himself. When the
officers started toward him he at
tempted to draw his revolver, but
Hanson and Carter caught his arms,
and in the struggle following, the re-
volyer was discharged three times
no more (Radcliffe was struck once
and Hanson three times by bullets
from the reyolver.) He denied
knowledge of there being warrant
for him; denied hiding at Roosevelt
when the train approached; denied
having called Radcliffe around the
corner of the hotel; no such conver-
sations before the shooting, as other
witnesses had testified TO, had taken
place and ne knew nothing of the
character of his brothers saloons in
Hurley. In fact he denied most
Everything that the state had proved.
Previous to this Sheriff w. j.
Whiteside of Iron county and Sam
Swanson, ex-chief of police of Hur-
ley, had testified that the places in
which Imperio and Roberti had
worked had at that time been gen
orally designated as brotGelS.
A number of witnesses were brought
up from Chicago to testify to the pre-.
; viouS good character of Imperio
Each gave him good name, and said
that his reputation in Chicago haC
been good, bat when quizzed on the
subject witnesses admitted that his
connection with houses of aSsignatior
in Wisconsin did not materially helE
his reputation.
All evidence was in at the close oil
the afternoon session on Friday. II
was stipulated that each attorney. in
his address 10 the jury, should be linn.
tied to two and one-half hours. The
state opened and closed the remarks
Continued ON fourth paye.)