Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-05
GIRL IDENTIFIES
LOPON|O IN COURT
Saw Accused Running from
Scene of Policeman Nc
Governs Murder.


ed from his seat with a roar. There
are the other two men. Those are
the other two that ran away and
that / saw afterward at the Second
Precinct"
Mr.. Lehlbaeh was quick to take ad-
vantage o. the Identification of the
other men implicated, coming as it
did while the witness was In the
hands of the defense and had Ber-
langiere and Lombardo stand up.
Reilly then formally identified Ber-
langiere as the man who had run
north on High street with Loponio
while he said positively that Lom-
bardo was the one who separated
from the other two and went south
on High street.
1t was the first time that Ber-
langiere and Lembardo had been for
mally connected with the case, and
the prosecution was well pleased
that the names were brought in by
the counsel for the defense.
Mr. reeple continued his examina-
ton of Reilly at length, but was I'M
able to break down the positive iden-
tifications that he had made.
Two bullets, the torn and blood
stained clothes of Policeman John ).
McGovern, and the revolver with
which the fatal shots were fired that
killed him on the night of October IL
last. were the principal articles OF
interest in Judge Martins court
room.
Loponio sits silent just back of
Irving W. Teeple, his counsel.
Deep interest is taken by Cres-
cen2o Lombardo, a nephew OF Lo-
ponio, and Raffaele Barliengiere'
Jointly indicted with Loponio for the
murder but who are not on trla!,
owing to a severance in the indict-
ment, granted at the opening OF the
case yesterday They sit on the op-
posite side of the room and have no
communication with Loponio.
The heavy blue overcoat of the
dead officer. with it's four bullet holes,
three through the back and one
through the left sleeve, lies on the
floor in front of the witness stand.
So does his vest. outer shirt ana
undershirt, all with the four holes
and bloodstains, mute evidence OF
the death of the policeman, who was
killed because, so that State claims,
he was about to place under arrest
a man armed with an automatic
pistol capable of firing ten shots in
a space of three seconds.
The pistol. a deadly looking maya
zine gun. lies on the counsel table in
full sight of the prisoner, jurors ana
the crowd that fills the courtroom.
1t was brought even more into the
limelight today when Fred w. Jad-
dell. a firearms salesman. took the
witness-stand to explain to the jury
the action of the fast-firing weapon
of death. JaGdell took the weapon
eingerly as It was handed him by
First Assistant Prosecutor FREDERICK
r. Lehlbach, and at once made an
examination of the magazine ana
barrel Of the weapon TO be sure IL
was empty. over the objections of
Counsel Teeple for Loponio he quail
fed as an expert and proceeded TO
explain the mechanism of the gun.
When he testified that ten shots
could be fired in three seconds, Mr.
Teeple objected and Judge Martin
asked the witness if it were not pos
sible to give an actual demonstration
Mr.. Jaddell said it was not with the
empty gun. 1t would have to be
loaded and tie ten cartridges aetu-
ally discharged as it was the recoil
of the bullet leaving the gun that
placed the cartridge in shape for fir
ing and made the speedy firing pos
sible. The actual test was not gone
through with, the jury having to be
satisfied with Mr.. Jaddelps testimony
as to the efficiency and rapidity of
the guns action.
The gun is the one found in a
vacant lot on Summer avenue the
morning following the shooting, and
was picked up at the identical spot
where Barliengiere later led police
officers and pointed it out as the place
where he had thrown the gun away
after the shooting of McGovern. Bar