New Britain herald., 1926-01-19
FALSE ARREST SUIT
 F0R s25,O00OPENS
 INSUPERIOR COURT
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and Meshken's son drew up a list O, the garments, the value of which was slO6o. Forman said that he took the coats and sold some of them and returned the others. On December II. 1922 he gave Meshken check for s460 10 pay for the coats he had sold. he testified.
 Forman said he wanted 10 20 back to New York so he brought the two trunks Of furs he had at the rail- road station In New Britain to Meshkens store and was going 10 leave them there and come back to New Britain on December 20. In the meantime Meshken said hc would try to get passports for tho trip to Europe and said he would write 10 Washington in his efforts to get them. Forman came back tc New Britain on December 20 after he had cancelled his passage to
 Europe. Meshken said he was ex- pecttnS the passports any day
 Meshken said he would keep the two trunks in his store on memoran. dunn but would not be responsible for them In case of fire. Both of them opened the trunks and check. ed Up all the goods in them. The value was estimated at sI,442.o5. Forman left them there and as far as he knows Meshken has the furs today because he never got them back or never received any money for them, he said. Then Forman said he had 10 See some custom CTS In Baltimore and at Meshken's sug. gestion he took l2 more coats to try 10 sell. He made arrangements to meet Meshken on December 27 in New York and at the time Of the meeting Meshken still did not have any passports. Forman went to Baltimore and took the |. coats but failed 10 meet his customers there and thought he wanted to wait to meet them he had to hurry back tc New York to keep the date with ! Meshken. He went to New York but MeshRen failed 10 show up. For man waited all the 18th and 27th of December and still Meshken did no, appear.
 He called Meshken's home in New Britain and his daughter answered the phone, saying that her father was In New York. He then found out what hotel Meshkcn was stay ing at and called him Ur. Mesh ken said he wanted to sec him in a hurry and Forman went to the hotel. Meshken told him he could not get away just then but he said he had received the passports and they should go to have them vised by the consul. The two went to see the Russian consul but he said they would have to see the Bolshevib consul. From there they went tc the Cunard line offices. The clerk there advised them to wait a month before sailing because of the bad storms at sea. Meshken wanted tc do this but Forman said he va. willing to go right away. Meshker asked him to come to New Britain and talk the thing over with his (Meshken's) daughter. He went and visited at Mr. Meshken's house and while there Mildred Mcshken came out and said her father decided he would not go to Europe and that he wanted his $500 back. He said that Lawyer Alfred Levitt was there and pulled two papers out of his pocket and told him to sign them. He asked him what they were and Levitt told him that they were an agreement making null and void the agreement they had had before about the European trip. Forman refused to sign them and Meshken came in and grabbed him by the throat and attempted to choke him, he testified. Meshken told him he would be a dead one in five minutes If he did not sign the papers. he declared. He then said he had a gun in the bureau drawer and was going to shoot him. the witness said. Meshhen went into another room and came back and stuck something in Forman's back and said. you sign those papers or you're q dead one" Forman testified.
 Levitt, he said, then told him that he had better sign them be- cause Meshken had a bad temper and he was liable to get hurt so he signed the papers and then they forced him to make out a check for $500, he testified
 The case was still In progress at press time this afternoon.