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LABOR TRIALS START Courthouse, Salem, Mass., Oct 16. Actual trial of Joe Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti and Joe Ca ruso began today. Indictments charging Caruso with murder of Xnnre EbpizzO, and Ettor and Giovannitti with having caused the shooting by in flammatory speeches read in court. District Attorney Atwfll made opening statement. Attorney Moore, head of counsel for de fense, followed him. Jury was completed late yesterday. Lake Charles, La., Oct. 16. Trial of 52 union timber workers for murder of three of their fel lows started today. Jury was completed late yesterday. District Att'y Joseph Moore made opening statement for prosecution. Bird Hickman, dis interested spectator at riot at Grabow, in which tKe three tim ber workers were, killed, was first witness. ELEVEN .STILL FREE ! Rawlins, Wyo., Oct 16. ElevJ en of the conyjcts who escaped m Saturday and Sunday jail deliv eries still at large. r Sixty-five posses are hunting for convicts, but not one 1iasiclue as to their whfereabouts. Most of posses now in hills 60 :miles southwest of here. Gov. Carey and Republican leaders of state in bitter argu ment over jail deliveries. Carey says Republicans exag gerated the affair to force him to call out the troops. Republicans say Carey accused them of being in league with the convicts. FIVE INDICTED The October grand jury today indicted Dago Frank Lewis, Har ry Cusick, Louis Weiss, Sam Hutch and Maud Wilson. The charge is that of harboring girls under age. All- the accused are. dive keep ers. They, with Al Harris and his wife, who were indicted yes terday, are the ones against whom indictments were returned by the September grand jury and quashed by State's Attorney John E. W. Wayman. v The grand jury today also heard part of the evidence against the Hearst gunmen who-murder-ed Frank Witt and George Hehr. p o EXPECTED TO RECOVER Gary, Ind.-, Oct 16. Hospital officials today denied the report that William Rugh, the newsboy who sacrificed his crippled, leg to save the life of Ethel Smith, ter ribly burne'd in a motorcycle ac cident, was dying. ."He is by no means out of dan ger," said one interne, "but we re gard his condition as almost con- valescent" WHERE THEY ARE TODAY Republican Pres. Taft in Wor-. cester, Mass. Democratic Gov. Wilson nr Trenton, N. J. 3 Progressive Col. Roosevelfc. Mercy hospital here. -