Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-26
WITNESSES IN
BOV|NO TRIAL
UNDER ARREST
Two Women Accused in Murder
Case Hearing-one Held
for Perjury.
ADMITS GRAND JURY
STORY WAS UNTRUE
Other Prisoner Changes Story
Regarding Tragedy in
Dance Hall.

TWO women witnesses-one called
oy the state and the other by the
defense-were PLACID undr arrst la st
night and today at tn trial of James
Bovine, who is charged with murder,
IN the Court of oyer and Terminer,
before Judge Martin. A complaint
charging perjury has been made out
against one woman and q similar
complaint, it is understood, is being
prepared against the other.
Mrs, Susan Brown Clark, better
known in the cheap dance halls ar
Big Sue, was the woman arrested
today. She admitted that testimony
given by her before the first grand
jury that heard the Bovine case was
not the truth. She was called today
as one of the principal witnesses for
the defense, and her testimony that
BoVino was not at the scene of the
shootig was regarded as an important
link in the chain of evidence to prove
an alibi.
Miss Anna May Gilling, a witness
yesterday for the State, was the
woman arrested last night and held in
default of $4,000 bail. She proved a
hostile witness for the prosecution and
despite the fact that she had made a
statement to the police wo days after
her arrest that Bovine was in the
dance hall at the time of the shoot
ing she testified yesterday that he was
not there.
Ordered Her Arrest.
AS big Sue" stepped down from
the witness stand the court ordered
her arrest. Later he summoned Chief
Frederick Weimer, who it is under
stood, Will draw up the complaint.
Big Sue" went back on her state
ment in the same particular as the
other girl, that is, relating to Bovinss
presence i'm the hall.
Both women were in the dance hall
at 2SS Oliver street, the night of April
p, 1914, when Frank Miserendino,
special policeman was shot after
quarrel with big Sue" 1t is charged
that Bovine fired the shot. Miseren-
dino died two days after the shooting.
Bovino Is on trial before Judge
William j. Martin and a jury in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer, charged
with Miserendino's murder. He was
one of the witnesses in his own be-
half before "Bfs Sue tJsit ttiis stf n.
lie repeated the testimony thai he
gave at his first trial, which was to
the effect that he was IT'S feet away
from the dance hall at the time the
shot was fired. In many minor de-
tails he could not remember what
happened, but he stuck to the es-
sential parts of his story despite a
sruelling cross examination by AS
sistant Prosecutor Andrew Van Blar-
com.
big Sue" related how she saw
Bovine leave the hall five minutes be-
fore the shooting. She also repeated
how Miserendino slapped her face for
talking about him to another girl and
no was she stepped back wiping her
eyes someone behind her fired the
shot.
Bovine in Hall.
Van Blarcom confronted her with
her testimony before the grand jury
shortly after the crime was COM
mitted. In that testimony she said,
according to Mr.. Van Blarcom's
questions that Bovine was in the hall
when Miserendino was shot. He
asked her whether she said that or
not.
Mrs. Clark said she could not re-
member giving such testimony but
admitted that if she did she was not
telling the truth.
so you committed perjury before
the grand jury?' asked the prose-
cutor.
Frank M. McDermit, Bovino's coun-
sci objected to the question and the
court sustained the objection so that
the witness was not called upon to
reply. After she had finished testify
ing Mrs Clark was detained and put
in charge of a woman court officer
who was guarding several of the |
States witnesses.