The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-23
HOT ARGUMENT 1
 ON COZZA $ RECORD

(Contlnued Il o..1 Page One.} | As the battle between himself and Delaney drew to close, Judge Ma honey appeared to become greatly agitated and turning to Huxford, who had been objecting to questions with great regularity, Shouted: | May I ask you to let this record go in? Have you looked it over in | the preparation of this case! Ger tain1y you haven't! Here it is!
 Judge Mahoney then attempted to hand the record to Huxford, but the district attorney brushed it aside.
 "of course you'll throw it aside.'' cried Mahoney.
 moment" interposed Judge Walsh. | = The excitement died down consid | erabIy, and Lieut.. James Ramsey, of the police department was called as . the next witness. Ramsey testified that he arrested Cozza in July, 1917, but the charge was breach of the ] peace.
 ] few minutes, and the defense rested at exactly 12 o'clock.
 Huxford asked Judge Walsh that - he be allowed Prosecutor DeLaney's | assistance in summing up the case, s and the request was granted.
 Delaney made a strong appeal to II the jury, in which he recited the
 facts of the case, and asked the 12
 men to be guided by evidence alone. 1T He denounced the actions of Boeman
 in the strongest possible terms, and o referred to the alleged beating as s. just the sort of action a thug would
 beg uilty Of A recess was taken l. after the conclusion of DeLaney's re-
 marks to the jury.
 ls Cozza was the first witness to testi-
 his arrest on warrant, on June 5, to and his visit to the rooms of the "vice squad" at police headquarters " where the beating is alleged to have
 Cozza informed the court, that
 Chief Myers, of the Burns squad
 Bozeman, Sergeant Michael ArnolskS r. and Patrolman John Moran were ,e present when he arrived. He sai6 It that Bozeman asked him if he killed Id Binkowitz:. He replied that he knew 1v nothing of the case; ssa cozza dselarft ts
 make him confess to bribing Prose cutting Attorney Delaney, ex-Captai1 d. Cronan, of the Detective Bureau ant
 other members of the police depart le, rnent.
 ou After he had refused to sign oi statement to this effect, Cozza ac 1t cording to his own story, was take1
 into the gymnasium by Bozeman, am
 there subjected to beating. H ,s4 said that the Burns man struck hin 's' in the abdomen, and on the face an
 body repeatedly. Each time he fel
 to the floor he was lifted to his fee ;in by Arnolsky, upon orders from Boze man. The witness also alleged tha '|S the Burns man called him some vii .n- names during the course Of the 'fes
 animation
 he Cozza claimed that he was take
 into the bathroom after he had bee try beaten, and Arnolsky helped him
 wash himself. A bloody handkel
 kerchief was taken away from hin be but he produced another in cou
 yesterday.
 ed, After spending about three hou1
 in the vice squad room, Cozza sa
 that he was taken downstairs ar .ity lodged in cell. He demanded tn
 two doctors be called to examine fi1
 The physicians summoned were [ ,i,, Romeo and Dr. Winton. Cozza pr io cured bonds, about 6 o'clock in u
 evening.
 Cozza was put thmrough a seve ere cross examination, but did not alt -+o his testimony to any great extent. Sergeant Michael Arnolsky was t ing next witness, and he practically we
 flied the statements of Cozza, re1ati or to the beating. He also told of
 meeting in ex-Superintenden ent John to Redgate's oce, in which he inform
 the chief of the facts of the case.
 was during this conference that t la scuffle between Bozeman and [
 Laney took place.
 lse' Attorney Morris E. Resnick told t ,,, court that he visited Cozza at his c
 in police headquarters on the day this the beating, and described the bruis ant, ran testified that he had seen Coz ,+es enter the vice squad rooms in 'eS bloody condition, and that he W lore also presetn when Cozza attempted
 wash himself in the bathroom Nor iual told of the incident wherein Bozem 'un- DIED.
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