Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-06
SENTENCES GIVEN, TRIAL BEGINS
Jail for Winfield Bosue Of New London-state Prison for
Ezra Mather of East Lyme-Two Boys Sent to Reform
atory-Two Stonington Railroad Workers Trial for
Murderous Assault.

w. Rathbun appeared for the two ac-
cused.
Albert z. Hall, who had both his
arms in splints, as they had been
broken in the assault, was the first
witness. He was cook for the gang
of railroad men at Stonington. He told
his story of the assault, relating how
man called "Scotty," whose name
is David Allen, was trying to get into
the bunk house and was pushed and
kicked out by the two accused and he
told how he was struck and his arms
broken. He had been treated by
Stonington doctor and also in the hos
pital at New London and he later went
to his home in Springfield.
DR.. Herman c.. Little of Stonington
described the injuries of hIr. Hall and
of the treatment he gave the injured
man very shortly after he had had mis-
arms broken.
Frank StapIin Of Stonington testi-
fed to going to the bunk house when
he noticed the crowd and knew there
was some trouble. Later he found the
axe under a bunk.
Emanuel Elfenbein, "a, in the liquor
business at Stonington, testified that
he knew the man Hall and when the
witness got to the place of the fight
he saw Pepi with a pickaxe handle
and Fulis with an axe which he was
holding over Halls head in the door
way. With that the witness went off
to telephone for help. Hall and Scot
ty were in the doorway and were be-
ing kicked out, and when the witness
got back Scotty was lying on the
ground and Halls arms were helpless.
The witness saw no blows struck.
Deputy Sheriff William F. Brough-
ton of Stonington testified that when
Ae arrived David Allen, or Scotty, was
lying on the ground across the track
and Hall was standing near. The dep
uty sheriff arrested the two men, Fulis
and Pepi, who said that they had been
trying to keep the other two men out
because they had no right there. The
man Allen, the witness said, was drunk
and he had Allen taken into the car
barn and later had DR.. Little look at
him. Deputy Sheriff Broughton found
the pickaxe handle on the floor and
the axe was found in a bunk and
handed to him.
examination of Deputy Sheriff Brough-
ton and Attorney Rathbun put on
Luis Pepi, one Of the accused, as the
first witness for the defense. Louis
Dondero acted as italian interpreter.
Pepi said that he had been employed
as bookkeeper in a store for the N. Y,
N. H. & H. R.. r., Co. in Stonington,
selling macaroni and bread in shed.
Pepi said that Hall had been in Ston-
ington 15 days, coming from New York
| and was a cook for the men. There
was no trouble with Hall before this
| trouble. Nine days before the fight
Hall had been discharged, the witness
| said and the boss had told him that
| men not working for the company
could not stay in the shanty.
| The first the witness saw of any
| trouble on Dec. 8 was when he came
| into the shanty and saw julius Fulis
on the floor with Scotty and Allen on
| top of him beating Fulis with their
fists They hit him in the face and
| tore his clothes FuIis had no axe
| then. The witness pulled Allen, whom
1 he called the cook man" off of Fulis,
and then a fight started between the
witness and the cook man." The
cook man" hit him once then Pepi
| got a stick and parted Halls blows
| four or five times. The witness said
he wasn't hitting Hall to kill him,
but to parry the blows.
Court adjourned for the day at 4.3O.