Evening star., 1933-02-18
zANCARA'S TRIAL
SET FOR MONDAY
Postponement Given Defense
Awaiting Report of Sanity
Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
: MIAMI, Fla, February 18-Trial of
Giuseppe zangara, swarthy Italian who
wounded five persons Wednesday night
when he unsuccessfully shot five times
at President-elect Roosevelt, was set to-
day for 10 o'clock Monday.
The action was taken after County
Solicitor Charles Morehead, in the
presence Of a crowded court room.
moved for a postponement from today
until Monday on the ground defense
attorneys had not received the report
of a sanity commission appointed to
examine the Italian.
Zangara's attorneys, appointed by
Criminal Court Judge E. c. Collins,
who will hear the charges of attempt
to murder preferred against him. are
Lewis Twyman, president of the Dade
County Bar Association; J. NJ Nc
Caskill, former president of the associa-
tion, and Albert E. Raia.
Attempted Murder Charged.
zangara is charged with attempting
to murder the PreSident-elect, who eS-
capped injury. and three victims of the
bullets, Russell Caldwell of Cocoanut
Grove, Fla; Miss Margaret Kruis of
Newark, N. j., and William Sinnot,
New York policeman.
The tiny Italian who shouted def
antly on Thursday that he wished no
attorneys to defend him in court, was
brought into the court room by Ave
husky deputies today. only to be taken
back to his Jail cell a few minutes
later, after the county solicitor asked
for postponement.
Spectators who jammed the court
room were searched individually for
weapons before they were permitted
to enter.
After the brief court session, More
head said that a sanity commission ap-
pointed yesterday to examine Zangara
visited him in the county Jail last
night. The commissions report, he
said, would be given to the defense at
torneys this afternoon.
. Should either Of Zangara's other
victims-Mayor Anton Cermak of Chi
cago and Mrs. Joe H Gill Of Miami
succumb to their wounds, I will trans
fer the trials Immediately to Circuit
Court" Morehead said. In event OF
death, the case will come under the
capital crime classification and cannot
be handled in the Criminal Court"
Patients Some Better.
Mrs. Gill and Cermak were reported
slightly improved in advices today from
jackson Memorial Hospital, where they
are under treatment.
Zangara Immediately was taken back
to his cell in the county Jail. The spec
tators. orderly throughout the brief
session, filed quietly out Of the court
room with no apparent attempt at q
demonstration against the Italian.
AS the bailiffs called the court to
order, Judge Collins said to the county
solicitor:
Have you any statement to make
Mr.. SOLICITOR"
Morehead replied:
AT 9:35 o'clock this morning, Mr.
Twyman and Mr.. McCaskill, defense
attorneys, called me and said they had
not yet received the report from ply
sicians who examined the defendant;
that they will have received the report
by 10 o'clock Monday; that they ex-
pected to receive it this morning, and
that they would study it and be ready
for trial Monday morning. They re-
queSted that I convey this report to
your honor this morning"
''All right" the judge responded. 'In
view of that report the court sees no
need for delaying a definite setting Of
the trial and therefore the trial is set
for 10 o'clock Monday morning.
Jury to Be on Hand.
THE jury has already been drawn
and will be on hand SO nothing further
can be done at this time"
The actual trial of this man will
proceed Monday morning if he pleads
not guilty" Morehead stated.
IF he pleads guilty, he probably will
be sentenced at once. I have not been
advised by the defense attorneys
whether Zengara will plead guilty or
not guilty by reason of insanity. The
defense attorneys told me they would
receive the medical commissions report
this afternoon and would notify me
then of their decision on the plea"
Morehead said he would have to
know the decision of the attorneys for
the defense today so that he might
summon witnesses. So far he said, he
had called none.