The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-29
CONSPIRACY DEFENSE IN
 JEWEL CASE
Lebenthal Witness Testifies that Brother-in-Law Holz- mann Sought to Sell Him Diamond Ring.

That the defense in the Mrs. Charles
 M. Coles jewel mystery is to charge
 conspiracy against Morris Gordon. the
 young man who has pleaded guilty to
 the theft of the jewels, and then turn
 ed them over to Abraham and Ida
 I.ebenthal. was further demonstrat
 in tho Superior Court, before Judge
 Williams and jury. thH morning when three witnesses for the defense
 were heard and cross examined by the
 states attorney. Not much headway
 was gained because of the continual rambling of the witnesses. The first witness was Jacob B1itt. He said: II was at the home of my mother-in-l
 Mrs. Remiz. on July 4, Holzman came to me while at the house and asked
 me to go into another room. Here he
 showed me ring set with two dia-
 monds and ruby. and wanted me to
 make an offer for it. I did not buy the ring. I again met MT. Holzman last Sunday and we spoke about the he had told the story about the theft three times already and could not change it.''
 The witness. under cross examina- tion. said that he resided in New York, if this was not the celebrated Tender loin district of the big city, the wit ness stated that it was not. which caused a ripple of laughter in the court room. MT. Blitt stated that he was deaf because of a cold. Many of the states attorneys questions had to be repeated. Tn his direct testimony MT. Blitt stated that he had come to, Bridgeport only last Saturday evening, not knowing that there was to be a trial yesterday.
 The second witness called was Joseph Raskin. a, resident of Brooklyn, N. F., and a hrother-in-law of Mrs. Leben- thai. He stated that he was at the was present in the room at the time MT. Hickman called Mir. Blitt out. What he called him out for he did not know. Yesterday his wife was called to this city by telegram, so he thought it must be in relation to this case. man-Blitt occurrence on July 4 and thought it had a bearapce on the case, so came to this city last evening. Previous to this time he had not said Under cross-exanination. the states attorney asked, If you found that MT. Hickman was in another part of the town on July 9th. would you change your statenent?" The witness an swered he would not Whether this to scare the witness was not brought out. Raskin stated that he had come into the case only out of curiosity and had not spoken of it before to-day.
 Lena Remiz, sister-in-law of both men stated that she was a resident of this city and conducted a furrier store in the Arcade. She stated that she was present on July 9th at the home of her mother and she saw both Blitt and Hickman leave the room together. The states attorney asked the witness when the idea came into her mind to place the connection of the Hickman Blitt incident with the theft of the jewelry. She stated 1t was this morn ing, when she first thought of it. Later she said it was yesterday afternoon, when Hickman on the witness stand stated that he had not seen Blitt with in three years, which she added was Up to yesterday after noon she had not discussed the case. Under cross examination she stated that she was in New York Saturday at the home of Blitt and that Raslxin was there. She stated that the jewel mystery was talked over in a slight way but nothing further. Both Ras- kin and Blitt on the witness stands stated they had not thought of the ,ases till they reached this city.