New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

The girl said she used to live on Beaver street and there it was she saw Costas for the first time. AS she used to pass him on the way to school he would say Hello, Sweetheart ]" she testified.
 After moving to Hartford avenue she ana Annie Ambrose visited him on Lafayette street, she said. Asked what Costas did to her the little girl hung her head, bit her hips and final ly muttered:
 He did a bad thing"
 She told the court that although she couldn't remember how many times Costas had had improper rela- tlons With CT. it was more than once.
 Did you get money for it?"
 Yes, five cents.'
 Who was With you?"
 Annie Ambrose"
 Turning to Nicholas, Annie said that he approached her last Friday and When she left him he gave her six cents.
 He said come Monday" the girl declared. Costas gave her five cents, too, she said
 In reply to the questions propound-
 
 she couldn't remember how many tunes she had seen Coveris. She said that week ago yesterday she went alone to the barber shop and Coveris said Come in the hall" Lawyer Saxe tried to trip up the girl and to get her to admit that it was another man and not Nicholas who had assaulted her. He had Leon Peltila stand up but Annie insisted that she was not mistaken and that Nicholas was the guilty man. She finally decided that she had visited the barber shop on an average of once week at which times the men had made improper ad- vances. She told her story graphical ly. E
 Chief Sees Identification.
 Chief Rawlings told of the two girls picking out the three men from among other prisoners in the cell room. They did not hesitate a bit, he said. With his testimony the states case rested.
 Defense Takes the Stand.
 With S. A. Porof1ros as interpreter the defense put on it's witnesses. Leon Pettitas denied ever seeing the Coveris brothers having anything to do with the two girls, although he had seen them hanging around two or three times and on one oc- casion had Chased them away himself.
 In his own behalf Nicholas Coveris said he has worked at the Rule Shop for sixteen or seventeen months and since January l he has not missed a f7c nyof SoJ, n machine broke down at 11:3O. That afternoon he went to the Grand in Hartford with Alex Proventus. who substantiated his statement. B. B. Reed, paymaster at the Rule Shon testified that according to his records Nicholas has not lost any time ex- cept on February g. Prosecutor Klett objected to his testimony on the grounds that it is possible, and i1as often been demonstrated, for one man to stamp another mans card at the factory.
 here four years. He has seen the two girls hanging around Lafayette street on two or three occasions, but never had anything to do with them, other than to chase them away from the
 
 nied giving them money having any thing to do with either of the girls or assaulting them. He also denied ever calling the Kasamovich girl sweetheart"
 Lawyers Plead Their Cases.
 Prosecutor Klett scored the defense and picked flaws in the testimony of ,-5 royor;r asked that both be bound over to the next term of the criminal court under heavy bonds.
 In reply Attorney Hungerford made light of the states "uncorroborated testimony He asked Judge Meskin to take Jurisdiction and cited an in stance in the superior court yesterday when Judge Gager sent a Plainville man to jail for two months for a similar offense. In reference to Costas, Attorney Hungerford de- clared that inasmuch as he did not use any force on her the complaint should have been that of lascivious carriage, for which the penalty is S7 and thirty days. He then painted the girls blackly, referring to the nasty routes they have built up where they ply their trade and earn their few coins. He. cited extensively from precedent and then concluded.
 Attorney Sake also made a strong plea in behalf of his clients, trying to prove that they had given a good alibi. The lawyers for the defense termed the assault a trivial one. Prosecutor Klett objected to this
 Probably Cause Found.
 Judge Meskill found probable cause and bound both Costas and Nicholas Coveris over to the June term of the superior court under bonds of 1000