The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-07
ARNOLD CONSIDERS CERTAIN ETHICS
 OF LAW BUSINESS
Detectives Remarks Have Especial Reference to Lawyers Who Tell
 Criminals Motto Talk
But Confession Was Obtain ed from Persons Concern ed in Shooting of "Light- ning'' Fleming, Police Say.

Captain George Arnold, head of the detective bureau, has some opinions relating to the ethics of the legal pro- fesssion and especially about that DOT tion of the code which permits a law yer to advise a criminal under arrest not to talk. Captain Arnold express ed himself freely to Farmer man upon this important topic following the advent of Attorney Henry Green stein into the ceremonies of the third degree, which the police were admin istering to his client, Luigi Franzese, who is charged with shooting day light through Lightning Fleming, the negro teamSter- Said the Captain of Detectives to a Farmer man:
 "A lawyer can't interfere when I am talking to a prisoner. The ponce have a right to hold man A hours. Then he's entitled to a trial. Until the end of the "A hours we can inves- tigate. We are as much for him as we are against him. The police don't want to railroad any body. They want the truth I said to Greenstein, Young Iawyer-that's different. Let me ask you this question, young man. Sup pose that some big ruffian rushed into the home of your mother, or your wife and shot somebody, and suppose while you were trying to get the truth I should rush up to that man and say to him, keep your mouth shut. What would you think of me?'
 'It don't take much education, con- tinued the captain, ''to tell a crimin- al to keep his mouth Shut. No need to get a sheepskin to do that"
 '"The police department represents a year to maintain the department to protect the people from criminals.
 "I told that to MT. Greenstein. l also told him I was trying to serve the public, and that he was working for money.
 .'The courts can't do anything continued Detective Arnold, the judge was a lawyer before he was a judge There was the case of the woman who was charged with stealing S2OO and repented after her arrest and wanted to give up the money.
 Have you counsel,' says the judge No replied the woman The judge appointed counsel and counsel told her convicted. Here's the other hundred dollars, judge she said That's all l can give you, I paid the other hun dred to the lawyer
 stole s36. We found SIS on him. He testified that the SIS was part of what he stole. His lawyer made a de- mand for the money We refused to yer an order for the money. Wasn't it bad enough for the victim of the theft to lose his money without paying somebody to prevent the man being punished who stole it from him? Fine business. isn't it?
 '!Somebody is shot down in cold blood. The police arrest him. They want to know the truth. The public wants to know the truth. Along comes a lawyer and says to that man whose hands are dripping with blood, keep your mouth shut. Don't you say any thing. And men get a college edu- cation to permit them to do that
 Attorney Greenstein's message to his client, according to the police, came too late. F,ranzese and the two Messinas had already confessed their participation in the shooting of Elem ing. F'ranzese's story told to Arnold is that when they consulted Fleming he threatened them with a razor. But he evidently thought better of 1t and ran away. F'ranzese shot, he claims, to scare Flaming. He did not intend, he declares to hit him.