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Show SWEARS I OFFICER FIRED FATAL SHOT Witness in the Ipswich, Mass., Riot Cases Tells of Killing of Nicoletta Paudolopoulou. IPSWICH, Mass., June 13. There was a sensation today in tho cases of the nineteen persons charged with rioting riot-ing in connection with the trouble at the Ipswich hosiery mills last Tuesday evoning, when tho defense produced a witness who testified that Nicoletta Paudolopoulou, killed in the disturbances, disturb-ances, was shot by a policeman. This witness was John Baker, who worked in the Ipswich mills. The state closed its ease, today and Baker was one of the first witnesses called for the do-fense. do-fense. Baker, who said he gave up his job in the mills today, eaid: "I. saw odo officer ducking bricks and a moment later he fired four or fivo shots into the air. T started to walk up the street when I saw some meu behind a bouse and a tall woman with a bloody hole in her cheek. Sho was fighting with Chief of Police Hull. A moment later auother officer seized her by the arm. The tall woman had a brick in her hand. While they were hattling auother woman rushed over. The officer saw her. aimed at her, fired and the woman fell." "Have you seen the officer since?" asked Judge Charles A Sayward, who is presiding at the hearing. "Yes,'' said Baker, "I saw him on the street today.' After Baker's- testimony L. K. Grist-kas, Grist-kas, who is' temporarily in charge of the strikers' case, said tonight that the defense would petition District Attorney Atwill to have the body of tho victim, who was buried Wednesday, exhumed. Ho said he wanted experts for tho defense to examine the body with particular regard to the course of the bullet in an effort to refute the theorv of the prosecution that the woman wom-an was killed bv a shot from above. |