Jury Completed at Trial of Fritz
Item
- Title
- Jury Completed at Trial of Fritz
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 13-Feb-20
- page
- 21
- Identifier
- Image 21 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), February 13, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Taxi driver, murder
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderer
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Court
- Length of story
- 134 words
- Description
- After the twelfth juror had been sworn in this morning the trial of Erneat Fritz, taxi driver, accused of the murder of Mrs. Florence Coyne on March 23, at last got under way. District Attorney Martin declared in his opening address that the prosecution will attempt to show that an instrument was used in the murder. Leo J. Ehrhart , a civil engineer employed by the District Attorney's ofice as a special investigator, was the first witness. He described the windings of the road through the Bronx botanical gardens taken by the taxicab in which Mrs. Coyne's body was found. Mrs. Mary Glennon, mother of Mrs. Coyne, declared her daughter was in good health. Mary Tepper, No.41 Park Row, for whom Mrs. Coyne worked as a private secretary, testified. Shewas a cheerful, capable employee.
