The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-23
DORA PODOLOF
 IS ARRESTED ON
 PERJURY CHARGE
Pretty Subway Arson Case Wit ness CoolIy Declares It's
 A 'Frame-Up"

New Haven July 23-CharEed with perjury. pretty IS year old Dora Podo- loff, who was the star witness against Morris Subway, Of the bankrupt firm of soloway & Katz, when he was tried for setting fire to his store in Wa terbury, was arrested here yesterday afternoon by Detective Sergeant Ward and taken to Waterbury. In the trial of Subway, on a charge of arson, in the Waterbury City court, Miss Po- doIoff said that Subway had told her that he hired two professional 1ncen- diaries to start the fire and her tes- tirnony gave rise to the reports of the existence of the so-ca1led larson trust
 The arrest of Miss Podoioff comes ae a result of a. conference Monday between Lawyer Benjamin Shade of this city and Prosecutor McGra tn of Waterbury. Lawyer Slade is under stood to have laid before Prosecutor McGrath certain statements, said to be in the form of confession, made by L> Katz, a. brother of Sam Katz, Sideways one-tine partner, which purport to show that the arson charge was framed up, to get soloway out oi the way.
 The warrant upon which Miss Podo- loff was arrested charges that she perJured herself when she testified that Subway had admitted to her that the fire in his store was incendiary and that it was started by two men who were brought to him by Joseph Weissnan of New Haven. These men, according to what Miss Podoloff said. SoIoway had told her, were profes- sional incendiaries.
 At the time of the fire, Miss Podo- loff was employed in Sideways store as a book-keeper and stenosrapher.
 It is understood that an attempt t1kr f7es. doloff was paid by the antf-Weissn1an and Soloway contingent in the Solo way & Katz brankruptcy matter to testify falsely in order to get Subway out of the way.
 The charge of arson against Solo, way was dropped by States Attorney Arnon A. Alling when it came up in the superior court in Waterbury, and Miss Podoloff only testified in the city court The charge of arson against Subway was dropped on his pleading guilty to wrong list filed fined $500. The perjury charge is bas- ed on Miss PodoIoff's testimony there, on the strength of which Subway was bound over to the superior court.
 Miss Podoloff was arrested at her mothers home 27 Ann street. She liv- ed and worked here before she went to work in Sideways store in Water bury. Miss Podoloff is a strikingly beautiful girl and caused a decided sensation when escorted into the sta- rion by Sergeant Ward. She is rather below medium height. She wore a dark suit (with the merest suggestion of a slit skirt), trimmed with red, and black hat also trimmed with red. She took her arrest very quiet 1y and coolly. She was put through the usual formaIittes of having her height taken and other data recorded and was then taken into the detective bureau to await being taken to Wa terbury
 She steadfastIy avowed that her ar rest Is a frame up" and said that she would not allow anyone to bail her out She said that she was wilI- ing to make a martyr of herself. She even intimated that she might go on hunger strike. like the suffragettes over in England
 Subway was arrested in this city and he made a sensational attempt to leap from an autonaobile He cut his wrist on glass so severely that he was taken to a. hospital.