New-York tribune., 1921-02-18
Brindell Asks
Liberty ON Bail
Pending Appeal
Justice BLUR Reserves De-
cision After Mr.. Littleton
Files a Petition for a
Certificate of Dou b t
Hetrick Trial Continues
Prosecution Will Close To-
day and the Defense
Will Consume a Week

Robert P. Brindell, the convicted
labor leader, through his attorney,
Martin W. Littleton, applied to JUS
tice Nathan BLUR yesterday for his
release from Jail pending his appeal
for q new trial. Brindell has been con-
fined in the Tombs since his sentence
on February 8 of five to ten years in
Sing Sing. He had been found guilty
Of extorting $4,000 from Max Aronson
in connection with a strike on build
ing operation of his.
The proceedings consisted of Mr..
Littleton's filing petition for cer-
titicate of reasonable doubt upon
which there was argument before JUS
tice BLUR by counsel for the people
and the defendant. The state was rep
resented by Assistant District Attor-
neys Robert L. Johnstone. Stanley
Richter, Albert G. Unger and Deputy
Attorney General Samuel A. Berger.
Justice BLUR reserved decision until
he could go over the 5000 pages of
testimony and other papers submitted
in the case. 1t is not probable that a
decision will be rendered before ten
days, or two weeks.
The Hettrick Case
More witnesses at the trial of John
T. Hettrick, before Justice McAvoy, for
alleged conspiracy testified to the close
relations that existed between Het-
tricks. code of practice group Of
plumbing contractors and the Journey
men Plumbers Union, through which
it is charged by the prosecution, out
side contractors were forced into the
code of practice scheme" The prose-
ution said it would wind up its case
to-day. 1t was declared that the de-
fense would take up about a week.
In filing his petition for Brindell
yesterday Mr. Littleton claimed that the
defendants indictment had not been
properly framed, asserting that the
1885 West Thirty-sixth Street Corpora
ton" was not the owner of the prem
ises whereat the extortion occurred, as
stated in the indictment. When the
clared, the aforementioned corporation
had gone out of business and that the
owner of the building was the Aronson
Brothers Corporation. He admitted
Max Aronson was the president of both
corporations.
Littleton argued, too, that out of the
5000 pages Of testimony only about 100
pages were devoted to the actual proof
of the charges in the indictment. All
the rest, he said, related to eXtraneous
and irrelevant matters, such as ten
other transactions, the history Of the
Building Trades Council and the perse-
eution by Brindell of the Zaranko Union
of Housewreckers. This matter, he
asserted was introduced as evidence
against his protest and in contraven-
tion of the law in the case.
Charges Court Erred
Littleton further claimed that the
court erred in refusing to charge the
jury that Aronson committed a crime
in attempting to bribe a representative
of labor.
Paul S. Bolger, plumbing contractor
called as witness by the prosecution
in the Hettrick trial, told yesterday
how he came to join the "code of
practice" He said there were strikes
on two properties of his last May and
that when he spoke to Doran and Chap
man, the delegates for the plumbers
union, about them, they suggested he
join the "code of practice" After dis
cussing the latter with some other
master plumbers, he said, he joined
the "code" group. When he went to Het-
tricks Office to pay his $3.50 initiation