The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-25
STRIKE TRIAL
WAS REMARKABLE
Judge Quinn Delivered His >harae to
the Jury Today in the Case Of
Ettor. caruso and
GIovannlttl.
APPEAL FROM THE CAGE
Dramatic Close Came When Defend
ants Made Their Eloquent Talks
With Hands clenched to
iron Bars.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
SAIjBM. Mass, Nov. 25.--Judge
Quinn today began his charge to the
jury which will decide whether Joseph
Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph
Caruso, 1. w. w. strike leaders at
Lawrence last winter. will go to the
death chair on the charge OF killing
Annie Lopizzo, striker, on the late
afternoon of January 30, during
clash between police and strikers.
The charge was the beginning OF
the end OF what has been the most
remarkable trial ever held in New
England.
! The dramatic close of arguments
came when Ettor and Giovannitti from
the steel wire cage where they are
kept with Caruso, pleaded to be sent
/ to the chair unless all three were en-
tire1y exonerated from blame in the
death of their sister. Annie Lop-
izzo.' Possibly never in this coun-
try's court history has such scene
been enacted In murder trial as was
witnessed when these two men ad-
dressed the court In their own behalf.
Standing with hands uplifted and
with fingers faulty clenching the
! steel wires of the cage in which he
sat and occasionally walking back and
forth, Giovannitti pleaded not only
for his own life, but for the life Of his
4 brother, Joseph Caruso.
4 II you believe I told those starvT
;,,x. 4 4 ~
around like wild beasts, then send me
4 to the electric chair" he said, .and
send my comrade. Ettor, to the chair.
because 1t is right and just. But /
i want to plead for another man, Ca
russo. have sat beside him for two
months in this cage, and know his
4 every thought Joe Ettor was the
leader of the strike / aided and
abested him, We alone are respon-
sible II Annie Lopizzo was killed
| through our influence, we alone are
responsible. But consider this poor
man and his wife and child"
At another time he declared: 1t
may be We are dreamers; 1t may be
we are fanatics. But SO was Socra-
/ tes, who instead of acknowledging The
! philosophy of Athens aristocrats pre-
ferred to drink poison
Jesus of Nazareth was then
fanatic who instead of acknowledging
Rome's temporal power, preferred the
cross And SO were all the philoso-
piers and martyrs of the middle age
| fanatics, who preferred dea:h by
burning. by orders of one of these
very same churches which you re-
proach me for having advised our
members not to join
Ettors plea was as dramatic as
/ Giovannitti's, With the permission OF
Judge Quinn he declared that the
''wanton killing of Annie Lopizzo was
plant by the mill owners, Just as
was the discovery OF the dynamite
4 plant" Referring to District Attor-
ney Attwill's remarks that he was a
New Englander, imbued with New
4 England ideals who decreed against
agitation stirred up by foreigners,
Ettor said: IT would remind You or
two foreigners who gave their LIES
4 blood for this country during the rev
olution, the biggest strike on record
They were two Poles, Pulaski and
Kosciusko, whom the New England
bard, Longfellow, sang of in immortal
verse.