Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-01

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them within bounds. The only demon
stration came when the prisoners We're
being taken in and out of the build
ing, when the crowd gathered about
the carriages and cheered loudly. Eft
tor wore a continuous smile during
these ovations and Giovannitti and
Caruso responded to some extent.
Salem, Mass. Sept. 30.-Three hun
dred and fifty possible jurors crowd
ed the Essex county courthouse, this
morning. to the exclusion of all 9TH
ers except attorneys, and newspaper
men, when the trial of Joseph j. Ell
tor and Arturo Giovannitti. Industrial
Workers of the World leaders and
Joseph Caruso, a mill worker, was
called.
The three men are charged with be-
ing concerned in the alleged murder
of Anna LopiZzo, during the great
textile strike in Lawrence, last Jan
uary. Caruso as a principal and Ettor
and GioXannitu as accessories before
the fact. The panel of talesmen was
the largest ever summoned for cap
ital case in this county and the su-
perior court room was not big enough
to hold them all
Fred w. Hazelwood of Portland.
Ore, of counsel for the defence, stated,
last night, that the first step. today.
would be the fling of a motion with
Judge Joseph f. Quinn for the dis
charge OF the entire venire on the
ground that in many instances names
were illegally drawn. Arguments on
this question We're expected to con-
sumo considerable time.
Ettor. Giovannitti and Caruso We're
brought To the court house short
time before the hour set for the trial,
from the Essex county jail, where
they have been imprisoned since their
secret transfer Saturday, from their
eight months home in the Lawrence
Jail. They were handcuffed together
ard We're in charge of q corps of Sher-
III Samuel A. Johnson's deputies. In
side the counsel rail in addition to
Attorney HaZelwood. were Fred H.
Moore of Los Angeles, w. Scott Pc
tiers of Hayerhill; John p s. Maho-
ney, of Lawrence and, George L, Roe
wer,. Jr., Of Boston. representing 1T
tor and Giovannitti. James H. Sisls
of Lynn, attorney for Caruso and
District Attorney Harry C. Attwill,
who is conducting the governments
case.
No witnesses had been summoned
for this morning, as it was expected
that the empanelling of the jury
would not be completed for two or
three days. Admission to the court
house Was by ticket or in the case of
talesmen, by the presentation of sum-
monses. The trial will be open to the
public as soon as the number of
prospective jurymen has been reduced
sufficiently to give room to specta-
tors.
About 200 Lynn members of the In
dustrial Workers. who remained away
from work to show their loyalty to
Ettor and Giovannitti, reached Salem
just before court opened and gath
cred outside the building. They gave
the police no trouble
The prisoners We're already in the
court house, their transfer being ac-
eomplished without any demonstra-
tion They remained in an ante-r room
in consultation with their attorneys
until called before the court, which
VII iiDl tOHNt1e uDlli AFTER ~ . ciOCk.
Judge Quinn refused a request of
counsel for defence that the court
ask prospective jurors questions in
addition to those prescribed by stat
ute before allowing them to take their
places i'll the jury box. The statute
questions had to do with relationship
to the defendants or deceased, as to
whether an opinion had been formed
and whether the feelings of the per-
sons under examination was such as
preclude verdict of guilty where the
verdict might bring about the death
of the defendant
Christian W. Larson, Haverhill
hair dresser was the first juror to
be selected. He was the second tales
man examined, James A. Eaton, of
Andover, janitor, having expressed
himself as opposed to capital punish
ment and Charles c. Phillips, a Lynn
electrician, falling to respond to his
name.
The polling of the panel was dis
pensed with because of the crowded
condition of the court room, and after
announcing that he declined to order
further bills of particulars for the
defendants, Judge Quinn addressed the
talesmen and outlined their duties
Exceptions We're saved for the defend
ants on the courts ruling