Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-11-17
MEN ARE GUILTY
|NPERJURY CASE
Jury Requires But Forty Min
utes to Decide Upon ver-
dict Early This Afternoon.
ALL PERTH AMBOY MEN
Charged With Influencing
Vice Cleanup Witness to
Testify Falsely.

by stan correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK. Nov. IL
Frank Magyar. Mike Subatech and
Steve Vukcevich, the three Perth
Amboy men charged with perjury,
were found guilty by a jury at 1875
o'clock this afternoon after forty
minutes deliberation. 1t was charged
that they Influenced Steve Santoz of
keasbey. to testify wrongly as to the
age of his daughter, Julia, when lie
appeared before the grand Jury last
year during the Perth Amboy vice
cleanup cases. 1t was charged that
SZanto said the girl was eighteen
when in reality she was My fonr-
teen years old. Szan.o later pleaded
guilty to making a false oath. The
defense claimed that he was intox-
icated at the time and could not tes-
fifty correctly.
Prosecutor Joseph f. Stricken and
Senator Thomas Brown, represent
ing the state and defendants. re-
spectively, each consumed the full
time Of thirty minutes allotted them
by Judge Daily in summing up late
this morning. Judge DAILY then
charged the jury, taking about ten
minutes to point out the important
evidence in the case. The july went
i : b.
with a guilty verdict.
The defense completed their case
yesterday afternoon, throughout the
testimony of the three defendants 1t
is noted that they stuck to their
story that Szanto without any de-
mapds from them, signed a state
meht on December 8. pointing out
that his daughter was born on May
10. 1901. The statement was made
in the Magyar language, and one of
the defendants, Magyar, acted as an
interpreter for the other two. The
defendants stated they came to New
brunswick on December because
they thought the case was to be tried
on that day.
The final witnesses to be put on
by the state were Detective John
Murray of Perth Amboy. who told
of the arrest on November 80 of
Steve Vulicevich; Stephen Somogyi,
court interpreter, who stated. that
Szanto on December s, told the
grand jury that his daughter was
eighteen years old and the mother
OF the girl. The latter witness told
Of the visits of the three defendants
to the house. their first talking to
her about the age of the girl, and
then to her husband. She also told
Of the three defendants taking her
husband and herself to New Bruns-
wick In an automobile on December
s.
Mary Kapustyak. housekeeper for
Magyar, took the stand and told of
coming to New Brunswick on Dec.
of last year with Magyar, Suba-
tech and Vukcevich. At Fords, she
testified Szanto and his wife were
taken into the car ana on to the
county seat. She denied that any
comment took place in the car as to
the age of the girl All were in the
hall leading to the grand jury room
with the exception of Subatech, she
said.
The state reopened it's case in or
der to allow Prosecutor Joseph E.
Stricken to show that Szanto had al
ready pleaded guilty to a charge of
perjury. Senator Brown then asked
for a directed verdict of acquittal.
giving among his reasons for making
this request the fact that Szantn
was drunk when he appeared before
the grand jury and was not In a
condition to give out correct infor-
nation. Judge DAILY denied the mo-
ton.
Both counsels were given thirty
minutes in which to sum up their
cases. Judge DAILY told the Jurors
that If they believed the story told
by Szanto and his wife the men were
guilty.