Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-15

or axe. Then ComVarto ran away
 and fell down in some bushes. He 1 was cut in the back and ComvartO l cut him. He was in bed by reason of l the wound twenty days.
 |, In response to queries from Attor- ney LedWIdGe Murano said he had
 been arrested for intoxication in vfo-
 lation of an ordinance of the town
 of Westerly, but did not recall being
 arrested for any other offense The l played at the house of Philomena. Murano, in Tower street. Witness said Comvarto was near neighbor. On the night of the assault witness said he left the house of Phi1omena Mur- ano at about o'clock. Fred Ferraro and Tom Perro were with him and Fred remained with him before the
 assault. Tom left before and stopped
 at his own house. He saw Comvarto
 come out of PhiIomena's house and
 he was in front of the house waiting
 for cousin Luiggi. Witness was not
 at the junction of Tower and Oak
 streets with Perro waiting for Com
 varto and said he did not testify that
 Comvarto left the house after he did.
 Comvarto was the first to go, and the
 rest followed.
 Witness said he was within a min
 ute's walk of-hIs home when assaulted.
 Comvarto was with witness, Cousin Luiggi, Fred Ferraro, when the juno
 tion of Tower and Oak streets was reached. Up to this point Comvarto had insulted witness three times, and kicked him. Witness testified that they Es.d drank glass of beer at Philomena Murano 'sbut did not pay for 1t. The witness said the trouble in the house was between Cousin stabbed from behind by Convarto and that witness was held by Cousin Luiggi and the little son Angelo, age four years. Joseph Comvarto cut me on the left shoulder" said witness. l Comvarto stood behind him when the 1 blow was inflicted Just at that time l Fred F'erraro had hold of witness. He | looked just after the blow was struck l and saw Comvarto run away and fall. 1 down.
 Witness said he never struck Com varto in the head with a stone and 1 neither did Fred Ferraro. There were some barrels by the roadside and that comvarto had probably received the cut in his head from nails in the boards. He was positive no one struck Comvarto and that witness did 1ot go into his own house after revolver. He said he was not re- strained from going out just after the assault and did not say he was go- ng out to kill Comvarto. When he arrived home after being cut there vas no one there but his wife and 7erraro, but soon thereafter many friends came in. Comvarto went to lis own house before witness reached lis home.
 Frederick Ferraro testified that he ,neW Murano and Comvarto and were with them when this assault was con- nitted. Both of the men were going long peaceably when Comvarto said e could lick Murano, repeating 1t ] hree times, when Murano expressed l oubt. Then Comyarto struck Murano nd witness then stepped in and part q the men and held both. Then the title boy came, and witness took the title boy by the hand. Then Murano aid that COmVarto had hit him with
 knife. At Murano's house he saw he wound in the left shoulder. When 'onvarto ran, he was pursued by furano, and witness caught Murano nd accompanied him home. Witness cid both men apart just before the tabbing and Joseph Comvarto struck