New Britain herald., 1915-05-31
N0NTV|D IS 10 BE
 TRIED IN FEW DAYS halslaugh'eI Charge Against Dr. HaBgjni Also Before High Court.

Of the hundred odd cases that are to come before Judse Case at the June term Of the superior cuur- which
 opens in Hartford tomorrow, two of
 the biggest and ones in which the
 most interest will be exhibited are
 from this city. Bernard Montvid
 will be tried for tie murder of Rev.
 Joseph Zebris and Miss Eva Gilmanai- tis at their Church street home on the night of February 8, and Dr. c. c, Mangini, also of this city, will be tried q ma charge of manslaugnier, it being alleged tha the performed a criminal operation upon Miss Julia Snannahan in Kensington during rile month Of December, causing her death.
 r In addition to these two major cases from this city there will be a q large number of minor cases either appealed or bound over from the New thing from simple drunkenness to criminal assault.
 .ttss 1Tontvid to Have Counsel.
 As the burden of proo1 rests with the state it is expected that Montvid's trial will be a hard fought one, es- IeciaIly since he will pc assigned eminent counsel by Judge Case. It is we'll known that he made an alleged confession in Wilmington, duplicating Peter Krakas, recently hanged, and in which he denied taking any active part In the murder himself but stated that he waited outside. To offset this, however, Krakas is said to have made an ante-mortem confess;on in which ne implicated Montvid. However, concerning the admission of these con- fessions there will occur U big legal fight.
 Fight Over Confession.
 If Montvid is indicted ny a grand jury on a first degree murder count, the trial vii begin probably around the twentieth of the month. The states witnesses will testify first and after various witnesses have been rlaced on the stand to prove that the
 clergyman and his housekeeper were
 murdered it is probable that Detective
 Samuel Ranforth of tn local depart
 inent wilt be called upc1 to testify.
 Under States Attorney Hugh M. AL
 corn's questions he will tell of the 11iurder, the subsequent search for the guilty men ending in the!r arrest and then, it is likely, he will be asked if Montvid made any statements to him. The detective will then start to tell of tho confession obtained in Whining ton. If it is admitted it will greatly simplify matters. If it $ denied the state's task in proving Mcnrvid guilty of first degree murder will be hard enc.
 It is understood that States Attor- 1 r.ey Alcorn has repunderance of evidence to present to tho jury against Montvid. He will endeayor to prove that the accused and Kralsas were sy stematic robbers and murderers as we'll as blackmaiIers and to do this he will prove that the two carried on a private correspondence in code,
 1 NIangini Has Good Lawyers. The Mangini case. while it will un- l fortunately again drag the name of 1 the dead girl through the legal nire. l will nevertheless be an interesting one l and will be hard fought. The physician l ie to be defended by Lawyer Noble E. l Pierce of Bristol and former Com I sressman Kennedy Of Naugatuck. 1 The accused will endcavor to prove l that lie did not perform the alleged | operation. The state, assisted by it's ] witnesses several of wnose identity l has been kept secret, will endeavcr to l prove that the doctor treated the girl ! and then took her to the Renaldi ! house in Kensington until she should ! recover. Death thwarted his carefully l laid plans, 1t will be declared. It is l expected that the dead girls fance l will be one of the states most material I witnesses.