New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-26
.CARUSO IN GIRL Staying
MOB, ASSERT POLICEMEN
Defendant Present When Anna
Lopizzo Was Shot and Off,
Ger Stabbed, They Say.
TELLS OF WHIZZING BULLET
Bluecoat, in Midst of Firing,
Saw a Flash, Felt Heat and
Then Woman Fell-"Prowl
Like Wild Animals.

Salem. Mass. oct. 25.-Joseph Caruso,
defendant with Joseph ]. Ettor and Ar
turo Giovannitti in the trial for the MUIR
der OF Anna Lopizzo, victim OF the Law
renee textile strike riots, was declared
by witnesses to-day 10 have been present
when oscar Benoit. a policeman. was
stabbed and the Lopizzo girl was shot,
on the evening OF January % last.
Edward Marshall, a policeman. who was
with BenoIt on that night, testified that
Caruso. accompanied by Salvatore Scuito,
a fugitive. stood directly behind Benoit
Immediately before the shooting and
stabbing. Benoit himself testified that he
had seen Caruso, armed with a club
few minutes before he received the knife
wound.
Marshall described how he and Benoit
were surrounded by angry strikers, while
shots we're being fired and their lives
threatened, and testified on cross-exami-
nation that he grasped his fellow officers
arm and said:
Get out OF here. Oscar Look out for
yourself"
One OF the strikers had just called
Benoit vile name. Marshall said. and
II looked like trouble, as the two had
been cut of from their fellow officers.
There were two men behind Benoi'
and two IN front Of him, one OF whom
had sworn at him." added Marshall
Just then ! heard shots and took hold
OF Benoit and turned him around. II
was at that moment that he was
stabbed"
The witness described the two men who
had been standing behind Benoit. one
he said, was Scuito, and the other "ir
his opinion" was Caruso. J. II. sisk
counsel for Caruso, demanded that th'
witness either fatly identify or refuse &c
identify the defendant.
'Ts he the man you saw there"' III
asked. pointing to Caruso, In the pris
oncrs' cage.
I'm my opinion. yes" Marshall an
swered. ...
Benoit, cross examined, said he anC
Marshall, who had been left alone a
Garden and Union streets, were endan
gered. lie admitted tnut nc ieaiou ioi u"
| life.
What was there to be afraid Off
asked sisk
THE mob was all around u.s." said Be
mott. Marshall had just told me to lool
out, and had turned me around when
felt a blow in the back. Then ! saw g
fash and seemed to feel heat. | heard
the report OF a revolver also, and JUS
at that moment | saw woman on the
opposite side OF the street fall"
Other shots were fired in rapid success
sion. Bcnoit said. and he could not swear
that the shot he felt whiz by him was
the shot that killed Anna LOpizZo.
Asked about his recognition of CarusC
among the strikers that night Benol'
said
"Caruso was one of the men at tn,
head OF the crowd which rushed upon us
lie was one OF the men who approached
me just before was stabbed and before
the shooting"
Marshall declared that scuito wa!
armed with club when he first saw
him the night OF the riot. When he iden
tilted Caruso the prisoner appeared 10 b'
unmoved, but busted himself later will
whispered suggestions TO his attorney
after cross-examinaton was begun.
Just before adjournment Eugene Ben
cordo, brother OF Charles Bencordo, ;
detective, corroborated the latter's ties
.imony relating to the speech made to th'
strikers by Giovannitti advising them 4
"prowl like wild animals at night for tn,
blood OF the scabs"