New Britain herald., 1915-05-15
IS ExONERAT[D OF
 ATTEMPTED MURDER
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(Continued from First Page.) then asked the Cianci girl if it was not true that on one occasion she had kthr1atened to kill herself if Carpentere Zdid not marry her. After thinking a moment the girl admitted that week kbcfore the shooting she had made Such d statement She said that Sam had told her father that he would mary her if she could get a divorce From Guiseppi Leone. At that time Zshe would have married him.
 Lawyer McDonough then asked the kirl if she had not loved him g week Before but now hate him as strongly as you loved him before"
 She admitted that she did hate l sam
 Police O1acers Testify. ks Officer Theodore Johnson told of be- ling sent out on the case by Sergeant Herting He found the girl uncon- scisus on her bed. Then, after talk ing her to the hospital. he went to 1 26 High street on orders from the sta lion. He found Carpentere there and placed him under arrest. As the of hce searched Sam he said his prisoner had remarked: TT haven't got the Eun.'' Officer Mccarthy also testi- lied to his part in the case and said witness that his sister had shot her. Thirteen years old Joseph Cianci, q brother of Pasqualina. was the next vitness and before his testimony had been concluded he had thrown an en- Irely different light on the case. He aid Sam had visited the house on the yentful Sunday morning and asked fhere Pasqualina was Told she was astairs he went up. Joseph declared Ee heard voices upstairs and heard km exclaim to his sister that he Eould shoot her If she refused to so sith him. He then heard a shot. he aid, and moment later saw Sam kave the house, run up Lilac street nd into Cherry street. Lawyer Mc- enough subjected the youngster to a rilling cross s-examination, during hich he denied seeing and talking to number of the witnesses for the de- nse.s He also denied that witnesses IF the defense had told him to go to alnut street after his parents and he revise denied that he had told these tnesses thaa his sister had shot her ftss ated. he had declared to these peo- that Sam Carpentere had shot his ter. Bringing the testimony around thescene in the upstairs room the Tyer for the defense asked Joe what did with the revolver He replied t. he picked it up and hid it on the Chen shelf because, he explained, was afraid of the policeman. The denied that the revolver belonged his father and also denied that 1t s kept on the bureau in his parents. lroon
 Finds Sister in Mothers Room.
 Nt this juncture the states case re- red severe setback when Lawyer Donough asked the little boy if. on hing upstairs, he had not gone into mothers room and picked the re- Yer off the floor. The boy replied t this was true, that he had found revolver on the floor of his moth room The youngster was then Sd if he had not seen his sister NJ from their mothers room into own bedroom. He replied that had.
 what did she say y?' he was asked. Nothing
 e insisted, however, that he was nstairs at the time of the shoot but had distinctly heard Sam say
 he would shoot his sister if she sed to go with him. The little ess insisted that his sister was sh ct CT mothers bedroom and stag q from there to her own room rc she tainted across the bed He
 picked Up the gun and hid it on shelf downstairs.
 Says Father Made Him Inc.
 tgelo Cianci, the eleven years old her, was the next states witness
 under Attorney McDonougll's s
 examination he admitted that father and sister had coatchcd
 and his brother to accuse Sam ne hooting and furth ermorc de- Id that his father had threatened K Him if he did not tell tho court
 sam had shot Pasqualina The aid he would not have accused
 had not his father ordered him
 Id threatened to lick him if he
 obey. At this point the boy'n
 and sister jumped to their feet
 interrupted the court by protest-
 hat they had not harangued the
 nto accusing Carpentere. Angelo
 admitted that 1e saw his sister
 eir mothers room after the
 ng. As lis examination pro-.
 the boy became badly rattlei