Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — DISTURBS MURDER TRIAL [ARTICLE]

DISTURBS MURDER TRIAL

Girl Brings Legless Chicken to Court to Prove That Bister Has White Blood In Veins. New York.—The cackling of a hen disturbed a murder trial in the county court at Jersey City. Judfee Carey Interrupted the case to ascertain who was responsible for the presence of the fowl, and ordered it removed from the room. Carmela Accordina of Danesviile, Pa., the witness on the stand, admitted she owned* the hen, which she had carried from home with the expectation of convincing the court and jury that the life of her brother, Antonio Accordina, could have been saved bad her sister shown as much interest in her brother as the witness had in the hen. She explained that on the morning of February 18, the same morning that her brother was found with a fractured skull dying in the hallway of 413 Jefferson street, Hoboken, she had discovered the hen with its claws fast in ice. She melted the ice with hot water, and cared for the hen. It lost its legs, but she attends to it, and it lays eggs the same as other hens. did you bring it to court?” inquired the judge. “To show that I had red blood in my veins and my sister has white blood in her veins.” Her sister, Antonetta, eloped from Danesviile with Rosario Ginamello. The murdered man found them in the Hoboken tenement house and went there to persuade his 6 sister to return home. Ha was found dying in the hallway of the house and Ckiamello is on trial for killing him. The state produced a statement made by the accused in which he he said he told his sweetheart: "You will talk with your brother no more. He is dead in the street.” It was the alleged failure of the ■ • - • • ' •

woman to go to her brother that influenced her sister from Danesviile to produce the legless hen in court.