Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-01
oulplcE AND STATES PRINCIPAL
WITNESS KNOWN UNDER
SAME ALIAS.
COUSIN OF ACCUSED r.
ALSO KNOWN ~ SAME NAME
Evidence Declared to 3. cireumst.ntiaI
With Exception Of Alleged Confession
-Existenos Of Three WiIeys comp'i.
Gates cass-Dsfsnss Attacks RsIia-
biIity Of Testimony.
necial to rimes-R Republican.

1l0HWOOOS July Ia DOlu SIIOhC VI
the defense in the trial of francesca
Guidice. for the murder of Howard
Jones. of Council Bluffs, brings to view
the fact that the evidence gained
against Guidice is all circumstantial
save the alleged confession. This is
going to make it hard to convict OF
the charge.
Guidice's attorneys, by witnesses,
proved that the states principal wit
ness, William Porche, is also known as
Wiley, the alias of the man on trial.
Wiley was the name Jones wrote upon
the piece of paper just before he died.
Porche, the witness who claimed to
have found Wiley's blood stained razor
on the bed. is cast under suspicion also
by the defense. whose attorney claims
some one else may have placed the
razor there. 1t was also brought out
that there is still another Wiley, cous-
in Of the accused, employed in the
Northwestern round house.
Attack Reliability Of Testimony.
With all of the evidence of the state
submitted, the defense in the trial of
Guidice conferred its efforts yesterday
in an attempt to establish the unre-
liability of the states testimony OBJ
tanned from Italians who knew Wiley.
When court adjourned Saturday, the
state reserved the right, to bring in one
or two witnesses before resting it's
case. Monday forenoon it announced
! that it had completed its case, and the
examination Of the defense's witnesses
twas Immediately commenced. Court
convened at 1880 o'clock, but it was
after II o'clock the witnesses arrived
on the forenoon train and their inter-
rogation commenced.
Several Italians who worked about
the round house alongside Of William
Porche and others of the states wit
nesses were examined during the fore
noon. Their testimony concerned Gut
dices presence about the round house
on the night of the murder, and sew
eral substantial variations from tse
stories told by Italians last week were
secured.
Differ AZ to the Time
James Vivicinzo, who worked with
Bill Porche in the cinder pit at the
Northwestern round house the night
of the murder. was the first witness for
the defense. He testified that he saw
| Guidice in the shanty near the ctnder
pit about SEAS or 9 o'clock on the night
of the murder. The states testimony
last week established the fact that
Guidice was at a picture show uptown
until after 9 o'clock.
/ Guidice talked with Bill Porche dur
ling his visit at the shanty. the witness
said. Vivicinzo did not know just how
long their conversation was in progress,
| as he fell asleep, he said, while they
! were still talking. The defense con-
siders this testimony as important, in
asmuch as Porche testified last week
| that he had seen Guidice that night
| only at distance.
The purpose of the testimony, as At
torney Hess explained, was to establish
the uncertainty of the testimony given
by Italian witnesses. The state ques-
| toned Vivicinzo at some length to es-
tablish the time he had seen Guidice
but the witness stuck steadfastly to his
story.
Did Not See Italian.
James Solo, S23 Avenue ], who is
| turntable man at the round house, did
not see Guidice near the round house on
! the night of the murder. His cab on
| the turntable commands good view Of
the woodpile where Guidice is supposed
to have hidden.
Solo said he saw Bill Porche and
Mike and Louie Tango in the cinder
pit, but did not see them go to the
| shanty where the conversation with
| Porche is supposed to have taken place
Solo was not questioned at all by the
state, and his entire examination by
the defense lasted but few minutes.
F. Rubencamp, Northwestern host
| Ter who takes the engines from the
cinder pit after they have been cleaned
by the Italians and who has charge of
the cinder pit men, did not see Wiley
the night of the murder, according to
| his testimony. He found Bill Porche
asleep in the shanty about 11:2O, he
said, and woke him up. Rubencamp
was not cross examined by the state.
John Herbert. fire knocker' in the
cinder pit. also testified that he had
| worked at the roundhouse the night OF
! the murder. but declared that he did
not see Guidice during the night.
II the verdict is unfavorable. Attorney
Hess OF the defense has announced that
he will make vigorous effort to obtain
a new trial for his client