Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23

feetly natural thing, because the people
in the crowd where the shooting was
done We're Italians.
''The fact that the shot that killed the
woman could not have been fired from
an American made revolver" Mr.. Att
viii said. proved beyond peradventure
that officer Benoit did not fire the fatal
shot,
"f We have proved he said, that
the defendant Caruso was in that crowd
and you are satisfied that he was there.
he is as guilty as the man who pulled
the trigger of the revolver In this case
all we have to do to establish the muir
der is to show that someone in that
crowd discharged the pistol which killed
Anna Lopizzo."
The district attorney reviewed the evil
dence of LaCourt, the detective who
was with Caruso when he was arrested.
LaCourt testified that Caruso admitted
to him that he had stabbed Policeman
Benoit He also recalled the testimony
of Thomas Kanada, who said he saw Ca
russo do the stabbing, and the testimony
of Benoit and other officers who saw Ca
russo in the crowd the night of the riot.
The evidence he declared, shattered the
defendants alibi completely.
Mr.. Attwill. asserting that the case in
volved many questions to excite the SYM
pathies of men, and that he was not in
sensible to the wishes of people to bet
ter their conditions on this earth, urged
the jury to consider only the evidences
bearing upon the charges against the de-
PENDANTS.
LEADING II IN a diSpISsion of tho
evidence. the district attorney declared
that the wages of the Lawrence mill
workers had nothing to do with the case
In this connection he called attention
to the fact that the Industrial Workers
of the World sent out a circular appeal
for funds. during the strike. bearing the
label of the American Federation of La
Dor instead of their own. why didn't
they put on those circulars their own
LABEL he asked, IF they didn't want to
deceive?"
Referring to the charge of the defend
ants attorneys that 1.-THE case was born
in iniquity and carried on through sim
lister influences" Mr.. Attwiu said II took
them three or four days to argue and
denounee the commonwealth before sub
hitting to the jury "a case of which they
appear to be little bit afraid
If there is one thing this trial has
demonstrated, 1t is thai the charges of
brutality upon the part of the police of
Lawrence and the militia were abso-
lutely groundless,' Mr.. Attwill declared
These Ettors and Giovannittis and
their allied social workers have now had
their day in court. and where is this
bat
They have had their opportunity to sus-
tain the charges sent broadcast over this
country that the police and militia We're
brutal and they have utterly failed. The
charges fall fatty to the ground
Mr.. Peters resumed his argument when
court convened, appealing to the jurors
to cast aside whatever feeling of race
prejudice they might hold in celebrating
on the case. Giovannitti's purpose in CO.
ing to Lawrence, he declared. was grand
and noble" and he compared the young
prisoner to Garrison and Lincoln What
he did during the strike. Mr.. Peters said,
did in the open, knowing that
he was surrounded by detectives.
at is ridiculous TO believe that Giovan-
nitti ever made the speech attributed to
him telling the strikers to ''go out and
seek the blood of the scabs," Mr.. Peters
said. "He might just as well have gone
TO the police station and invited the off
GERS of the law up to the common and
told them to come and hear him make
a speech in violation of the law melting
violence. The speech quoted here by
these detectives is absurd. preposterous
absolutely untrue
Two hundred years ago in this very.
city of Salem.' Attorney Peters said liz
closing. human nature assesrted itself
and poor women We're hanged for what
was termed witchery. an act in modern
times recognized as a disgrace, shame
a blot on the fair history of Massachu-
sets 1t was through an error of hu-
man nature.
Here before you is case as flimsy a.
that Don't let such a disgrace as that
of 200 years ago be repeated"
District Attorney Attwll began the
closing argument for the commonwealth
when Mr.. Peters had finished Ettor
who had expressed a wish to address
the jury, changed his mind.