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3*1et-’e-inis-a.a ’ ' 1 ' • . • . • -Police Photos Of Shooting SceneS.MlIntroduced In Murder Trial HereL1' ‘Attorneys this raornlog $!udi«d photographs taken by a detec-Itiva while investigating th$ shooting of two sailors' Oct. 6, 1967, as * the murder 'trial of Stephen Robertson 'entered its fourth day.in Superior Court- . '' Robertson, 21, oE 551 Wolcott Ave., Middfelown. Is,charged in the ^hqotfng' deaths of - Russellof Newport, jffisfirj'jind ’Jaoi'es D, Cook, 20, of Port Arthur, Tax,, In the early morning of Oct. (,1967, Ul the Quality.Lunch, 25 Broadway* - Judge Christopher Def-Sosto presides.*The jury already has.heard [witnessesV Whor said they ‘were cu5toflierilt;?r.. employes in th^I Quality •’Lunch'tl tie limg of the Ishooting. -.,;i}. ^. ....Today's testimony centered oh [holographs taken by-Detective Sgt. Norman R. Anderson it the scene of the double shoeling and other .Items he said found.in, or Inear the restaurant,'’U.e photographs and [[ems Jwere offered as exhibits for thestate's /case-.,to .prosecutor James’S. (J’Brien. All items 1 Proposed.as exhibits were . examined ’ by-.' defense atlurneys Aratt' Arabian* of Providence, William W. Corcoran and Joseph [T. Houlihan of Newport.Mrs. Katherine Heaiy, administrative secretary UMhe navy exchange officer, took the stand this morning. She said she was in charge 6f records at the exchange.. On request by O’Briep she produced a record showing that *39-50 c-aliber: rifle was sold to Mrs, Mary Kennedy of 225 Maple Ave., June 25, 1964.•' Cross - examined by Arabian, Mrs* Healy said she knew nothing of the sale and did not know Mrs. Kennedy. She repeated her sole Job involves keeping the records. ■Mrs., Kennedy J3. the mother of the defendant. This-fact wan pot brought ;up;Jr’ the -morningIsession of the.' Beside/, pho|oguphs - of the | scene of the;, shootings t state exhibit of three .’cartridge casings which Anderson claimed he found on the flwr,of the re*taurant the ihonlng of theshooting, also introduced.Testifying . just before ' noon yesterday, Mrs; Pauline - Young of .21-Calvert St.j a waitress it the Quality 'Lunch a£ the; time of the shooling, told of an argument between. Wlliiim\IVAma* to and tomeu sailor a,-i '■.Amatp,:who-.lt;«IIflad • either In-ihe trial,,was'put-oytalde by th? owner oflhs testiurant and Mrs.'‘Koiias Glinlolli, sMrs; foung said,;.. ..The waitress told. of leelng toother youngs mm, Robertson,sitting! abort dlslance fr ora the jailors/ Although she. d 1 □ not know him by • name, she said she recognised him .b e : cause he hid been la the res-taurant before. She said, s h e noticed ■ Robertson leave the restaurant through, the BrouL way door after i a.m. ' ■Mrs. Gianiotis, i whose =; a 4 = dress:is also '?1.\ CalverL St.f s^d her*husband Is-part owne? of thp restaurant, ■ •. She recalled t disturbance She «)d tftE. paused b/*Amato. After Amato left,she'said, he banged op.tbe ^indow. She recalled three’boys silling at the counter afyj Robertson who had been in the'.irttaurant before. /' .'One oWhe thr e e boys left,; Mrs. * Gianjotis recalled. . ICH? sgldi'Kei/elfc-cick^Vshe sMd 1 She testified she.remembered Robertson-}pavl*g ,:the resfau-rant tboiit’that time. She . saidshe heard Mm mumble, ‘TJl fix this She fold the jury she pioughL he was lt;lgoing to take1 Amato from the window.’The .next Jmu she saw Robertson, she _ testified under cross - examination, '.was.n e a:r the juke box in the restaurant after one shot had been fired..She said she saw .Robertson m o v e a little c 1 o s e r to the Broadway entrance .and-she heard two• more' shots. She said she ran from the restaurant. 'Last to testify yesterday was Patrolman William M..Walter-son, the first policeman to;arrive at’the s c e n e of the shooting. He told the' jury' whence arrived; he. found hVb; men ton the floor. One was not moving he said. .The othfr was bleeding badly,.;;., ■ :- After he summohed -the^ rescue squad, hew- began * taking notes fcr the Investigation. *CIb
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Jun 07, 1968
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