The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24
Engineer, Doctor
 Initial Witnesses
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he was first brought to the court room and chatted with him through out the 15-minute recess taken by the court at 1:30. She and his other relatives talked to zukauskas in the basement of the courthouse before the trial opened.
 The prosecutor at the start of the hearing outlined the order of the states case, pointing out that first of all photographs and maps of certain points in Waterbury would be presented. The next phase would be evidence of the corpus delicti and then evil dence would be on prior relations Of Mrs. Plungis and Zukauskas, he said. The fourth phase of the states case would be evidence on ''an in- cident which occurred on Nov. r, States Attorney Fitzgerald states.
 The final evidence of the state will deal with alleged statemetns made by the defendant to the cor oner and other investigators" and to evidence collaborating such statements" the prosecutor told the court.
 Handcuffed
 Zukauskas, who entered the court house handcuffed and accompanied by SheriffS Eugene J. Fitzpatrick Chris Olson, appeared indignant when photographer attempted to take a picture. He made an angry statement and declared the photog- raphers would have ito wait awhile"
 Seating capacity in the courtroom was exhausted long before the trial opened, and six SheIiffs toured the room in an effort to maintain or der At one point in the proceed ings Judge McEvoy interrupted to ask for silence, stating the contin- uous hum and buzz must subside.
 The city planning engineer, The odore Scott-Smith, described points in large map placed before the bench by the states attorney. He described distances between certain points specified by the prosecutor. The mileage described by the en- gineer covered a total of 238 miles, and it is believed the states attor- ney will later try to show that figure represents the distance covered by Zukauskas by car or by foot on the night of November l, after he met Mrs. Plungis while on his way to work. Distances from 174 Alder street, the home of the accused, to points on Fairfield avenue, Middle bury, and North Elm street, were measured by the engineer in his | testimony.
 The accused in his confession to the coroner had stated he fired fatal shots at Mrs. Plungis off Fairfield avenue, that he deposited the body on a lonely bridle path in Middle bury and that he took the car, own ed by the dead woman's husband, to a parking lot where on North Elm street Anthony Plungis kept it. The mileage brought out in today's testimony covers the distances to those various points.
 Defense Atty. Gager in his cross. examination brought out that tht estimates were made by means of 2 car speedometer and questioned their accuracy. Scott-Smith re- piled he had used two cars andt Wt speedometerS as check.
 Pictures Exhibited
 Pictures of various scenes were in' troduced as exhibits, and were viewed by ZukauSkas as well as bJ his counsel. Among them were pho tographs of the bridle path where the body of Mrs. Plungis was founc November 4, buried in shallow grave.
 Detective George McElligott. tht second witness called to the stand testified he took an envelope con. taining two bullets from the office | Medical Examiner Edward H Kirschbaum on November 8, ant turned them over to County Detec. tive Thomas F. Laden.
 The county detective then was called to give testimony in relation to the bullets. He said he examined the bullets and then turned then over to ballistic engineer who kept them for 10 days. Two bullets were presented by the prosecutor to tn detective, who said they were thu same ones he had rec lved Int states attorney asked the court tt have them marked for Identification purposes and indicated they woulC be offered as separate exhibits later
 The state indicated early in thu proceedings that numerous exhibit' would be offered. It was suggested that the exhibits might be numbered numerically rather than by letters in view of the large number to b. offered, but the court ruled the us ual alphabetical listing should b used by the stenographer.
 Dr. Kirschbaum, medical examin CT, described the condition of Mra Plungiss body when he saw 1t am later conducted a post-mortem ex animation. He was questioned on tn