Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-07
DRUM CASE WILL
GO TO THE JURY
THIS AFTERNOON
Alleged Slayer Says Police
Failed to Make Note of Self
Defense Statement.
PROSECUTION SUMS UP THE
CASE IN VERY SHORT TIME
Defense Scores States Case as
"Weak"-Parisi Murder
Case Next.

srhs taking of evidence in the trial
al George f. Drum for the murder
81 Policeman John T. Mcdonald on
ILl1y ~, last, that has been in prog
Zess since Monday in the Court OF
yer and Terminer before Judge Har-
u v. Osborne, was finished just be-
ere noon today when the State nm
he'd It's rebuttal evidence to show
lat Drum had made no reference in
statement to the police few hours
H{ter his arrest to any effort on the
u lrt of Mcdonald to pull gun from
Is pocket.
Z Drum on his direct examination
Yesterday insisted that he had not
6fed the fatal shots until Mcdonald
lad come toward him with his right
/Ist upraised to strike him while with
His left hand he was tugging at his
LIFT side coat pocket where Drum
hid Mcdonald carried revolver
Drum insisted that he had only
dred in self-defense, as he was posi-
i've Mcdonald was trying to pull a
gun from his pocket. He also in
sist ed that he had told this fact to
the police when they we're obtaining
"a statement of the shooting from
him.
"A Nothing to this effect appeared in
tho statement, and in rebuttal the
State adduced testimony from Chief
michael T. Long, who at the time
Y of the shooting was captain of the
Fifth precinct; Policeman James ].
Mcclure, who transcribed the state
ment, and other officers who were
present. The officers all testified that
Drum had made no reference to Nc
Donald's efforts to pull a gun from
& his pocket in the statement made to
them.
Drum himself, on the witness
: stand, had stated that after the
transcribing of the statement had
Y been completed it had been read to
q him and he had told the officers 1t
was substantially correct.
q When the arguments opened Judge
# Osborne placed no time limit on the
8 lawyers, and 1t is probable that the
4 case will not reach the jury before
S30 this afternoon.
Judge Osborne will take UP the
q trial of Henry Parish, who is
charged with the murder of Antonio
Demonato, on Cutler street, on Au-
gust 20 last next Parisi and Dem
onato are alleged to have quarreled
in saloon. after which the men
separated. A short time later DEM
onato was shot and killed While
standing in front of a moving pic
ture theatre. near where the original
quarrel took place. As far as known
There were no witnesses to the
shooting
Did Not Notice Omission.
Drum stated that he had not called
attention to the omission of the vital
part of the statement at the time it
was read to him as he had not noticed
1t was omitted. He insisted strongly
though that he had made the state
ment
Frank NJ. McDermit counsel for
Drum, made a big effort to keep the
statement out of evidence, pointing
out the fact that it was not signed
by Drum. However, as Drum himself
admitted making the statement it was
allowed to go to the jury for what it
was worth
4, Mr. McDermit. when the taking of
evidence was closed, asked that AS
sistant Prosecutor Andrew Van Blar-
com, who has conducted the case for
the State, make an opening argument
to the jury. Mr.. Van Blarcom COM
Piled and in about fifty words said he
believed the evidence warranted a
conviction for murder in the first de-
gree and asked that that verdict be
returned by the jury.
Mr. McDermit, in opening his final
plea for the life of Drum. berated Mr..
Van Blarcom for the briefness of his
opening argument, stating that coun-
sci for the State evidently was afraid
of the strength of his case when he
refused to discuss it to the jury.
Mr. McDermit then went eX-
haustively into the evidence in the
case and worked hard to show that
when Drum fired the two shots that
ended the life of Policeman Mcdonald
he was acting in self-defense and that
he would not have shot at all had he
not been in fear of his own life.
He said the statement taken by the
police was worth nothing as 1t had
not been signed by the accused and it
had been admitted by the officer who
took down the statement that all
Drum had said had not been incorpor-
ated in the statement.
Counsel for the defense, Frank Nc
Dermit, finished summing up at 1:10
o'clock this afternoon and recess
was taken until 2 o'clock, when As
sistant Prosecutor Van Blarcom will
put his case before the jury.