Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-31
MARGARET GREENS STORY
 BINDS sHoNFIELD OVER.
Thirteen Year Old oirl Tells Court
 What Occurred at Bathhouse.


 the alleged indecent assault upon her, charged against Prof. Alfred Shonf1eld, and corroborative testimony of certain phases of the case by several other witnesses introduced by the state, at the preliminary hearing in the New London police court Wednesday, re- suited in Judge William B. Colt find- ing probable cause and binding Shon- neld over to the next term 0f the crirn- nal superior court in bonds of S75O.
 Three hours were occupied in hear ing the evidence and listening to the arguments of Attorneys EoHandersky and Geary for the defence and Acting Prosecuting Attorney Cronin. The court spectators.
 Prior to the reading of the com pIalnt, to which Professor Shonfeld entered plea of not guilty, the charge entered against his name on his previ- ous appearance was nolled and charge of indecent assault substituted, at the suggestion of the prosecuting attorney. Professor Shonfield was ac- compan1ed in court by his sister, Miss Annie Shonfeld, of New York.
 Margaret Frances Green, the B year old complainant, is a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry E. Green, of No. I9f Bayonet street. She was accompanied in court by her mother, and once While under cross examination by At torney Geary became hystericaI when
 
 Stop my mother from crying-she is going to faint" the girl broke down completely, and efforts of the court officers to calm her were fruitless until the mother had been led to an ante room.
 She told in a straightforward man. ner the incidents which led up to the charge being placed against Professor Shonfeld. She said she had been en1- ployed by Nathan Peck who conducts a restaurant at Ocean Beach, for some oayS prior to the date of the alleged assault on Tuesday, Aug. 22, to care for the two Peck children. The youngest Of the two children, she said, had been 1n bathing during the afternoon and, accompanied by the Peck boy, aged 5, they came from the beach to the bath house occupied by the Pecks about ' o'clock on the evening in question
 Reaching the bathhouse, she said. tney found 8 man there. He was in the act of tieinS his bow necktie The girl knew him by sight from having seen him speak to the Peck children on several occasions. She knew he sometimes used the Peck hathhouss and thought nothing strange about his presence there. He departed from the oathhouse and then came back, accord ing to her testimony, with a sweater which he hung on the wall. Then he sat down on a bench in the bathhouse behind her, while she was engaged in dressing the young Peck girl, who is a little over year old.
 The girl paid no attention to the presence of the man in the bathhouse, presuming that he was facing his shoes, she said. Then she testified to feeling her body come in contact with something and thought she had rubbed against the bench which extends along one side of the bathhouse. According to her story, she thought nothing of that TInfi1 1o +o,- eI7o Fo1 - tug at her clothing and felt a hand unbuttontng her clothes. Turning about quickly, she declared she saw hand withdraw quickly. She screamed
 Shonf1eld, she testified, was still on the bench and when she jumped up quickly he said: Shut up. I'm not touching you" With that she rushed out of the partly open door and ran screaming to the door leading to the kitchen of the Peck restaurant There she ran into the arms of one of the kitchen hands and in a single sen- te1ea she expalined what had happen ed. With that she passed out of the kitchen into the main dining room where she sat down, and as soon as she recovered from her excitement ex- pla1ned to Mrs. Peck and several wit nesses how the man in the bathhouse had unfastened part of her clothing.
 After she entered the kitchen. she said, Shonffeld entered the door and she pointed him out to those in the room saying, There he is" Shon- field replied back. T didn't do nothing 10 her. Later she said he entered the dining room by the front entrance and again she pointed him to those about her and again he repeated his assertion of innocence.
 She was unable to place the exact time but believed it was a few minutes after ' o'clock in the evening. She floy- of the lights on the beach and in the buildings in that vicinity were light ed
 On cross examination she persisted that she felt hand under her dress and that Shonfield was sitting directly behind her on the beach when she turned around. It was quite dark in the bathhouse at the time, and the door remained partly open. Tn run ming from the bathnouse to the rear door of the Peck restaurant, she said she jumped from the platform in front of the row of bathhouses to the ground which is a distance of about two feet Efforts of the defense to shake her story proved unsuccessful.
 Professor Shonheld was the last wit ness of the day. His testimony was a complete denial of the evidence as presented by the prosecution He said he went to the beach early Tuesday afternoon. A long line was waiting for suits at the public bathhouse and he went to the restaurant of Nathan Peck, with whom he is on friendly terms, and requested the privilege of using his bathhouse, which was granted. After donnlng his bathing suft he returned the key to its place in the restaurant and went to the beach, where he remained about two and a half or three hours.
 He says he returned to the bath house about SIS o'clock. The door was open and he entered. There he | dressed and according to his story had just placed his coat on when the two Peck children and the Green girl | came to the door. He told them to wait just a minute. which they did, then he vacated the oathhouse. As he was going up the walk he noticed his sweater hanging over the low fence which extends along the out side of the walk. He picked 1t up and returned to the bathhouse where he says he merely reached his arm in the door and placed the sweater on a nail. He then departed. He absolutely denied re- e-entering the bath house.
 When he reached the street, large crowd was waiting for cars back to