The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06

The OpJecClOn WAS OVeII uleO'
 Continuing her story, Mrs. Cyr said she got up and saw her hus- band coming from the bathroom into the kitchen, while wiping his hands with 8 towel. It was then that he told her they would have to "get out" she testified.
 and then left the house. She knew he left because she heard click or the door, she stated.
 Then she heard voices from the cellar-they were the voices of her husband and Coscia, she stated
 She could hear her husband say, Don't make noise - my Wlle wants to sleep" she testified. She said she heard Coscia say, Too bad about your wife.''
 Continuing her story, she said she heard noise like something falling" and then heard her brother-in-la running upstairs to the second floor, where he lived.
 Then, she said, she head "holler- ing" and Coscia was saying, I'm going to shoot you She heard scuffling feet and heard her sister say. Don't. Don't" she continued. t Heard Coscia Hollering
 She went to the bedroom to get her slippers and then heard Coscia coming down stairs and 'hollerlng, I'm going to shoot you AS he pounded the door he repeated the word, she testified.
 Then the panel came through and a shot was fired and her husband took one step back and fell forward Mrs. Cyr stated The gun pro- truded IT inches through the panel, the witness indicated with hand movement, which was measured by the states attorney.
 She ran to the telephone to call Dr. Corbett and then ran across the street to call her brother and sister in-law. William and Carmella Spal- lone, Mrs. Cyr stated.
 While she was at the telephone she heard Coscias voice from the hall, stating, Why didn't you keep him upstairs. Why did you make him come downstairs" the witness said.
 Her husband arose first, she said Cyr was standing at the time the shot struck him, the witness said She did not come back to the house, after she summoned her bro- ther and his wife, she said
 Asked for a description of hel husband, she said he was five feet eight inches tall and weighed 164 pounds. He was not well and was under a doctors care at the time she stated
 At that point the prosecutor asked Mrs. Cyr if she was pregnant at the time, and she said she was.
 The states attorney then asked ''Tho words you heard your hus- band say in the cellar were my wife has to sleep'' She replied 1T the affirmative
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 MnS. Cyr disclosed she and hel husband were not on speaking term with Coscia and had not been fo two years. She said Coscia objected when she remodeled her floor ant stated he needed the wood she wa using.
 On cross-examination. Attorne Mascolo obtained testimony tha neighbors had objected to kitten and rabbits she and her husband kept on the premises. She admitted that health inspector had called The next-door neighbors objected to the rabbits, she stated.
 Attorney Mascolo early in the ex animation drew out testimony tha Mrs. Cyr was the mother of healthy boy. He also drew out tes timony that she continued to worl after she announced to her husband that they would have child.
 Detailed questions were asked b, the defense on arrangements mad by the sisters for taking care o the property and expenses, and ol other arrangements made in regart to the joint ownership
 At one point Attorney Mascot asked Mrs. Cyr if it wasn't true tha on the Sunday before the Shootinf occurred the Coecias had sent dowl come spaghetti and meat balls an, wine to them. She replied that he sister sent them.
 Isn't 1t true that your husbant ate some of the spaghetti and dranl some Of the wine" he asked. HI took some of the wine" she replied
 She admitted that she and he husband were not on speaking term with CoScia
 PreSentatlon Of testimony by Ray mond Grady, who had been on tn stand for full day and a half o the court session, was concluded be fore Mrs. Cyr took the stand.
 Next witness called was William 6pallone, brother of Mrs. Cyr an Mrs. Coscia. He said he found hi wife in the kitchen of the Cyr hom the morning of the staying. H said he saw the body on the f1ool lying on its chest. He noticed tn door with the panel knocked out, h said. It was he who notified DO lice by telephone.
 He told the prosecutor that tha morning he sspoke with a ma named Tommy Grady, and ma named Louis Pessaro. He said tn latter gave him a $1O bill. Thi Fitzgerald offered in evidence, say ing it came from the accused.
 Police Sgt. Edward Sullivan fol lowed Spallone to the stand. H said he went to the Cyr residenc with Capt. Patrick Foley and Lieu Patrick Hobart the morning of tn staying about 7:3O a. m. He said saw the body lying face down, tn head about 3 1-2 feet from the doc the left shoulder ten inches fror the stove.
 He said he went to the secon floor of the home, looking for Dom endc Coscia. He said he went a closet in the northeast room where he found two guns. H identified one which Fitzgeral l@S T