The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-25
DORA PODOLOFF'S CASE ATTRACTING
 WIDE ATTENTION
New Haven Girl, Accused of Perjury, to Face Court on Tuesday-Insists She Is Innocent.

Waterbury, July 25-That the trial | of Miss Dora Podoloffs charged with perjury, will not take more than a 1 oay or two in the city court, if the testimony is confined strictly to the issue in question, is the opinion ex-
 pressed by Prosecuting Attorney Mo 0rath Attorney Garvan of New
 York, formerly assistant to the dis
 trict attorney, is interested in the case. and he is to be here when the hear Ing is held. He was unable to be present yesterday when the case was called in the city court, 50 adjourn
 ment was taken until next Tuesday
 morning. Prosecuting Attorney Mo Grath will handle the states side of the case and it is expected that At
 torneys Benjamin Slade of New Haven
 and Jacob Klein of Bridgeport will
 also be on hand, these two lawyers
 having been Maurice Soloway's coun-
 sel during the trial of the arson case.
 Attorney William J. McKenna of
 New Haven will look after Miss Po-
 doloffs interests and it is said that it
 was Attorney McKenna who first
 learned that Miss Podolon knew some
 thing regarding the fire in Waterbury,
 the burning of the warehouse of SoI-
 oway & Katz, result of which
 Soloway was arrested. It came out
 during the arson trial that Attorney Benedict Holden of New York, rep resenting the interested insurance companies, engaged Attorney McKen-
 na to look after the New Haven end
 of the case.
 Miss Podoloff insisted again yester-
 day that she was absolutely innocent of the charge brought against her, and said she had no doubt but that the court would discharge her. 'I am innocent declared the little wom- 07,o conscience is clear. Absolutely clear, too, and I am not worrying, because I know I speak but. the truth. There are honest courts in this country, and that is why am sure am going to be discharged. It seems like a hor- rible nightmare, but it will pass away, and then all the people will know that I did not lie on the witness stand"
 David Kligerman of New Haven, who went bonds for Miss Podoloh for the sum of S1,5oo, says he was drawn into the Subway matter until now he is sick and tired of It, although he is confident that Miss PodoIof is innocent. MT. Kligernan says that on February 8, 1913, he was approach ed by Attorney Benjamin Slade on Orange street in New Haven and At torney S1ade said he wanted to see him at his office. ''Mr Slade asked me if I wouldn't act as peacemaker, and simply as a peacemaker. didn't want anything to- do with the case one way or the other, but decfd- ed I would try to do something for the benefit of the community. Solo way & Katz ran three stores, one in Hartford, one in New Haven, and one in Waterbury. There was trouble at all of them, Attorney Slade told me, and promised me, a thousand times, two thousand times, that would not I1e 4T,A C@Y@ way matter came up in court in Wat erbury He did not keep his prom ise. He asked me to testify for a short while, but told him I would talk for the court, but not for him. didn't testify at aIl.''
 ''I am sick and tired of the whole 1 business declared MT. K1fgerman, 'as the respectable people of New Haven are disgusted with the whole i case. It is making prejudices against l the Hebrews, and is causing innocent | people to suffer along with the guilty. | wish the whole matter was over with. It is too bad a case for respec- 1 table people to become mixed up in- 1 And my whole connection with the case was simply as peacemaker, and | MT. Benjamin Slade didn't keep his l word, either. I tried to do a good | turn, and that's all I had to do with l the case.''
 It is expected that when the case is called on Tuesday some sensational disclosures will be made. Miss Podo- lom said that although a, lawyer tried to make her sign a. paper saying she lied in the So1oway case; she refused, and wouldn't have anything to do with the matter. She also said she had sworn to tell the truth, and that was just what she had done. The state, however, is said to have photographs of a certain letter alleged to have been written by Miss Podo1off.
 Attorney S1ade, interviewed in New Haven, was asked if he would express himself as to an alleged conspiracy against his client (SoIoway) he said he would not, but he called attention to an article in a newspaper in which 1t was stated that Louis Katz, broth CT of Samuel Katz, of the firm of So1oway & Katz, had made a confes- sion subsequent to his arrest in New York, in which he stated that his tes- timony in the case of arson against Maurice Soloway was framed up" It was stated that he so testified under promise of reward.
 T know that reward was paid" said Attorney S1ade, 'and who paid It."
 Attorney S1ade further said that the confession of Louis Katz 1nap1icat- ed several attorneys for insurance companies.