Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-05
GIRL IDENTIFIES
MAN AS SLAYER
OF POLICEMAN
Miss Mary Barry Saw
Loponio Running,
After Murder.
SHE HEARD, BUT DID NOT
SEE FATAL SHOTS FIRED
Saw Two Others Fleeing, but
Failed to Observe Their
Faces.

The first actual Identification of
Salvatore Loponio as one of the three
men seen running away from in front
of the Webster Street School. on the
Crane street side, after Policeman John
j. McGOvern had been shot down on
the night of October 13, last was
made by Miss Mary Barry, 20 years
old. of kearny. who heard the shots
as she stood at the corner of Crane
and Webster streets, and was the
first person to reach the side of the
fallen officer.
Miss Barry was on her way home
after visiting friends on High street,
and testified today that she had
good view of the face of the larger of
the three fleeing men, She described
him to the police, so she testified to"
day, as "a dark man with mustache,
who looked like an Italian
On the following morning after
Loponio had been arrested, she told
of being called to the Second precinct
station. where she picked Loponio out
of line of eighteen or twenty men
as the man she had seen running
away Immediately after the four
shots had been fired.
She again identified Loponio in
court today as the man she had
seen on the night of October 13 on
Crane street. She said she had not
been able to identify Barliengieri or
Lombardo as she had paid no atten-
ton to them. She said she had not
seen the shots fired. Her attention
tad Irtyf ha COuT1d
of the shots.
Miss Barry made good witness
for the State and no amount of cross
examination on the part of Mr.
Teeple could shake her testimony
She was very positive at all times
that I,oponio was the man she had
seen running away from the seene-ot
fhe shooting She was the first wit
ness called to connect Loponio with
the shooting and the accused man
closely followed the testimony of the
girl and the efforts of his counsel
&c diseredit her.
Mr.. Teeple is making big tight
for his client and is exerting every
effort to make points in his favor As
a result the cross examination Oh
witnesses is long drawn out.
Mr.. Teeple made an effort to show
that the identification of Loponio by
Miss Barry was forced by the Sec
ond precinct police, in that Loponio
was SO placed in line that he was
brought into prominent view.
To combat this, Assistant Prosecu-
tor Lehlbach put Captain John e.
Brown. of the Second precinct. on the
stand. He testified that sixteen or
eighteen men were in the room when
Miss Barry was called on to identify
Ioponio and that the only words
said by the police officials to her
were: IF you see the man in the
room walk up to him and put your
hand on his shoulder"
Captain Brown said Miss Barry had
entered the room, looked the men over
and walked direct to Loponio and
placed her hand on his shoulder, say
ing. This is the man."
With the ending of Miss Barry 5
testimony, the first witness who has
succeeded in injecting some life in
the tiresome hearing took the stand
in the person of William H. Reilly, a
coal black negro, who lives at II
Crane street. and has lived there
st. Patricll's day, sah,'
The answer caused a laugh, and
then the witness plunged into such a
rapid-fire tale of his movements ON
the night of the murder that il kept
the stenographer on a keen jump.
On direct examination by Mr.. Lehl-
bach he told of leaving his home at
II Crane street at about 10 o'clock
buy a cigar. He testified that he
passed three Italians near the corner
of Crane and Webster streets and
that a few moments later he heard
shots fired in Crane street He ran
back to the corner, and saw three
men running up Crane street and the
officer lying on the sidewalk.
Two of the men, he testified, turned
north on High street and disap-
peared, while the third went south on
High street
He said he recognized one of the
men as the man who kept the shoe
makers shop at the corner of Park
avenue and High street Goponio).
He did not know the other two men,
Later he said he had been called to
the Second precinct station, where he
picked out LoponiO as one OF the men
he had seen running, and also told
OF identifying the other two men at
the station-ho 1t was noticeable
that Mr. Lehlbach had him identify
Lopon,o only.
On .cross-examination Mr.. Teeple
had Reilly go all through the, iden-
tification Of Loponio again. Then Mr.,
Teeple asked: "Who were the other
& two men you identified at the same
timc?"
Il don't know their Names" said
4 Reilly, but they were in court yes
terday and We're chased out by the
officers" Reilly was emphasizing
his remarks by long pointer that
he had used in describing locations
ON the map of the scene of the MUIR
3 der and suddenly its wavings stopped
1 as he pointed exctedly to Berlang-
iere and Lombardo seated together
4 in corner, guarded by an officer
d He had just caught sight of them
e aud paid no attention to a question
* Mr. Tecple was framing as he jump