The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-21
Buonomo; Actual Slayer, May Meet Death for
 Crime Others Tn Murder Gar to Escape Death Pen
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Evidence All Jury to Get Case Tuesday, State Begins Closing Argument

Begins Closing Argument Verdict of first degree murder | against only one of the four gunmen On trial for the murder of Jennie CayaIieri will be asked by the state.
 This announcement was made this afternoon by States Attorney JudsoIl when the defense rested it's case. 'tWhen this trial began, I felt that all four men were equally guilty,'' said Mir. Judson. ''Their conduct fol- lowing the crime and other circum-
 stances seemed to warrant this belief. ''The testimony brought out in the trial, however, is such that I believe it is my duty to say that the State of
 Connecticut is not warranted in ask
 ing a verdict of guilty against any occupant of the car, except Joe Buo- nomo."
 He added that he would ask a ver- dict of first degree murder against Joe Buonomo.
 The defense rested its case at 2:3O o'clock. There was no rebuttaI and
 the attorneys for both sides irnmedi.
 ately went into conference with Judge
 Case. As a result of the conference
 it was announced that the state will
 open it's argument this afternoon. The
 closing arguments will be made at 10
 o'clock Tuesday. The jury will get
 the case by Tuesday afternoon.
 Ivan Morehouse, Stratford prose-
 cutor began argument for the state
 at 2:45 o'clock.
 The straightforward tale of Jimmy
 Ricco, known as tt1artfofd Jimmy, lon the witness stand in his own de-
 w~~.R9 f~ic1
 was the striking feature of the morn
 ing session of the trial of the four all legged murderers in the Superior court
 today.
 To the surprise of the court room,
 when Ricco had finished telling of his part in the tragedy, and of his having come here voluntarily from Worces- ter, Mass, to walk into the court room and surrender to the States attorney that he might estab1ish his innocence, States Attorney Judson did not cross examine him.
 Rdcco's lawyer professed great con- fdence in the innocence of his client, particularly in view of the attitude of the States Attorney
 Deputy Sheriff Antonio R. Abriola sprang a sensation when he took the witness stand this forenoon as the last witness for the State. He intro duced a typewriter copy of notes he had made of conversation he over heard among the three men first ar rested for the murder, at the, county Ja1l a week 1OllOW1nS the CTdBeOy-
 He said the original notes had been lost out of his safe, but he had made the copy, fortunately, before the orig inals had been lost. This testimony tween the Chicago man and the two Bridgeporters, in the murder of the Cavalier woman.
 Ricco had held aloof from the other prisoners from the time of his sur render. In fact there appears to be three factions. Chicago Joe has noth- ing in common, apparently, with any other prisoners while Pezzichen1i and Motti remain seated together and Ricco invariably sits in corner by talking in the recess periods or &cquaintances who pass near at hand
 Pezzicheni was called to the stand early in the session of yesterday af- ternoon He said he was 38 a tailor, had been in America about 10 years, living principally in New York, had come to Bridgeport in July. and open early in October. He reiterated his story of the automobile ride, declar- ing that the four men who entered of the murder were Motti, Capone, 1 Buonono and himself and that they had met Jimmy Ricco at De Viva's l place. He heard Capone trying to per | the saloon to enter the car he saw the woman in the back seat She sat | at the extreme right, and next to her 1 sat Joe Pezzichemi sat at the left | Capone and Ricco occupied the small l seats while the fifth mem Der of their | party. Motti, sat in front with the driver.
 He said Joe and Jennie were talk ing on the way out, but apparently their voices were not raised He said he didn't want to seem impolite and 1e refrained from intruding on the He didn't know what it was about. He had not been introduce d to the woman and had never seen Ter before. He said he heard one shot, and looked up in time to see the wom- m lying on the ground with Joe fir ng the other shots at her. After he shooting I started to walk to d about 100 yards, then separated, Joe iropping behind. Later the remaining our separated he and Jimmy Motti 'emaining together He didn't know low they came to separate. He gave reason for Jimmy's entering the woods at the point where the officers. ocated him and subsequently, caught Jimmy and denied all knowledge of he pistol found at the roadside near he point of their capture.
 In cross examination Pezzichemi lenied knowing anything about the ,ra actices of the underworld
 Did you know that Ricco had wom- i
 No
 He denied that women of the tender oin congregated in his restaurant, Lnd denied also that before he was ; married he was one of the parasites f the underworld. |
 In cross exanina tion he stated for