The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-26
POLICE DESCRIBE
 SCENES AT RIOT
Attempt to Find Who Fired Shot That Killed
 Girl

Salem, Mass, October 25.-Joseph Ca ruso defendant with Joseph J. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, on trial for the mur- der of Anna Lopizzo, victim of the Law renee textile strike riots, was declared by witnesses today to have been present when Policeman Oscar Benoit was stabbed and the Lopizzo girl shot on the even- ing of January 29 last.
 Edward Marshall, policeman, who was with Benoit on that night, testified that Caruso, accompanied by Salvatore suito, now a fugitive stood directly behind Be- noit immediately before the shooting and stabbing. Benoit himself testified that he had seen Caruso armed with club, a few minutes before he received the knife wound.
 Marshall, under cross-eXamination, said he took hold of his fellow officers arm and said: Get out of here Oscar; look out for yourself.' One of the strikers had called Benot vile name, Marshall said, and it looked like trouble, as the two had been cut off from their fellow officers by the mob.
 There were two men behind Benoit and two in front of him, one of whom had sworn at him." said Marshall Just then 1 heard shots and l took hold of Benoit and turned him around.
 ~It was at that moment that he was stabbed.'
 The witness identified the two men who had been standing behind Benoit and said one man was Suito and the other, in his opinion, Caruso'
 Officer Benoit when cross-examined said he and Marshall, who had been left alone at Garden and Union streets, were endangered.
 What was there to be afraid of?" asked Carusos attorney.
 .'rhe mob was all around us," said Be. noit. officer Marshall had just told me to look out and had turned me around -when I felt a blow in the back. Then | saw a flash and seemed to feel heat heard the report of a revolver also and just at that moment l saw woman on he opposite side of the street fall"
 Other shots were fired in rapid suc- cession, Benoit said, but 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, Benoit said: , ''Caruso was one of the men at the head of the crowd, which rushed upon us. He was one Of the men who approached me just before I was stabbed and before the shooting.
 Several militia and police officers were examined during the day and closely questioned by both prosecution and de- fense as 10 whether any shots were fired by soldiers or patrolmen. All denied that my order to shoot had been given, or that any shots were fired by men under their command
 Police Sergeant Walter Spranger admit ted that at one time he had ordered his men to get their guns ready, but said they did not fire. ''I was in charge of a squad of policemen which was driving the crowds at Garden and Union streets that night" Spranger testified We had been resisted hy strikers, repeatedly, had been pelted with missiles and had driven the people back time and again with oul clubs, When We heard the shooting we were about a block away. I ordered the men to rush to the scene and as we were proceeding told them ste get their guns ready. There was no such order unti the shooting was all over"
 Just before adjournment Eugene Ben cordo, brother of Detective Charles Bencordo, corroborated the latters tes. timony. relating to the speech made to strikers by Giovannitti, advising them tc 'prowl like wild animals at night for the blood of the scabs.'