Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-12

Al w WedneSdayS session Of the superior | court which is being held at Westerly, 1. the criminal case brought by the state 1 against Maurice Handleman was con tinued. The defendant is charged with the larcency of $750 from the Industrial Trust Company, on August 21, 1922. At torney Makepeace said there were two questions to be considered. Was there money stolen from the Industrial Trust Company, and was Maurice Handleman concerned in the larceny of this money? ?l He also said to the jury that the state didn't claim that Handlemar himself took the money, but he was one of group of three who entered. the bank The state claimed that if he aided and assisted in the larceny he was as guil-- l ty as the one who stole the money. La l fayette L. Foster was the first witness Wednesday morning. He testified he deposited S740 at the bank on the aft
 ernoon of August 21, 1922 and David
 Robertson, a clerk in the bank, received the deposit. David Robertson testified | that he is receiving teller at the Indus
 trial Trust Company and that he received
 the deposit from MT. Foster, counted it, and laid it on the counter to be recount ed. He said he talked with the defend- ant about safe deposit box The de- fendant left and said he would return
 again. While he was talking with Mir. Stanton, Miss Williams came and said SCIIe OHe- lldU lile money rom the teller'S window. He testified as to some ! of the money being brought back by a Mir. Patagona and MT. Stanton. He said he treated Handleman with all courtesy and took him inside the gate, and asked him to come back when the girl was there. The witness told of stopping
 Handleman at the door and taking hold
 of him, and Handleman told him to take | his hands off as he was not the man he | W Ha of fa street the second time, but lost his hold Stanton then went after Handleman who started to run.
 Miss Mabel S. Cook, who has been
 stenographer at the bankfor eleven years
 and is in charge of the safe deposit vault
 told of seeing Handleman at the safe
 deposit vault. The man asked her about
 the safe deposit boxes and asked if any
 one could go to the box besides him.
 self. She told him he could have a dep- uty appointed. Handleman remarked al
 right, and turned away rom her window
 The witness went to the pay1ng teller's
 window to wait on a woman. Miss Will jams told her some one had reached 1T and taken some money.
 Miss Dorcas M. Williams testified sh,
 took a deposit for Miss McGrath anC ) made out a deposit slip for her. Sh, l told of seeing Handleman in the banl Il twice and two other strangers there. Sh' ,told of seeing a hand thrust through thu receiving teller's cage window and talk } a pack of bills about one and hal inches thick. She saw the figures of tn g same strangers she had seen in the banl ] before. She said Handleman was at tn 3 safe deposit window talking to Miss Cook l He was not at the receiving teller's win l dow when the money was taken.
 At the afternoon session, Harvey : Perry, treasurer and vice president o the Washington Trust Company of West n erly, testified that the defendant wen : into the bank between 12 noon and 12.3
 of August 21, 1922, and at Handleman' . request, he changed a $50 bill Mr. .Perr a said he looked the bill over and gave hir f four $10 bills and two S5 bills H
 said upon cross examination that h i, had seen Handleman at the police head = quarters the next day.
 Louis A. Stanton, assistant manage
 of the Industrial Trust Company told c how the cages were situated inside tn Y Y bank. MT. Robinson went to his (Stan = tons) cage to talk with him at his cagC [. the discount and savings department ' ' and Miss Williams said some one ha u taken some money from the teller's win t dow. He, Mr. Stanton, ran out the street. MT. Robinson going, too, a q far asI the door, The men ran to tn y opposite side of the street to the alley t way north of the Westerly Furnitur, : Co.'S store on High street and chase
 them to the park, where on the way bill e and a deposit slip were dropped H t then came back to High street and sa'
 two other men and Handleman goin T. out on the street Handleman stoo e across the streat from the railroad sta e tion, on Railroad avenue, and then wer
 to the Workingmens Clothing Store O | High street He called to some men | c watch when Handleman came out Chic f Brown and MT. Stanton came up an