New Britain herald., 1926-10-21
GANGSTERS' TRIAL
 GETS UNDER WAY
Witnesses Tell Of Assault on
 Garment Workers

Bridgeport, Oct. 21-The jury in the case Of the nine alleged New York gangsters, charged with as- sault with intent to kill, was con- pleted in superior court today and the trial was being argued.
 When court opened one man was needed to fill the jury box and seven talesmen were examined before he was selected. The twelfth man is P. Randolph Bradley of Bedding.
 The accused men are Jack Tit man, Harry Titleuan, Charles Kakye, James Cavus, Louis Harris Henry Bloom, Samuel Rosenburg, Max Baer and James Corti, all Of New York.
 The first witness 10 be called was Leon E. Futile civil engineer of Stamford. who made q map of the location of the alleged assault upon the garment workers in Stamford. This witness was under examination up to noon.
 Mrs. Clara McMahon of Stamford, proprietor of the Women's Dress Mfg. establishment whose employees are alleged to have been beaten by the New York gangsters armed with sections of heavy pool cues wrapped in newspaper, identified Bloom and Rosenberg as two of the gangsters she saw in an automobile trailing a taxicab which she had hired to transport her workers between their homes and the factory.
 Mrs. McMahon told of how she moved to Stamford about May |, hoping to be permitted to carry on her business there without interfer- ence from thugs and gangsters. She started with eight employees and within month had 75 people work ing for her. She has had as many as 100 employed at one time in her Stamford factory, she said.
 Besides identify Ig Bloom and Rosenberg as two of the thugs, she identified the pieces of billiard cues used In assaulting her workers and which she saw taken from the al leged ganBSterS dutoL4op4Ie dIICI one of the assaults.
 Witness Saw Assault
 Arthur J. Curley. engineer at the Ambassador Arms apartment house told of witnessing the assault of two young garment workers by nine men armed with what appeared tc him to be rolls of newspaper but which proved to be the butt ends oi heavy hard wood pool cues wrapped in newspaper. After unmercifuliS beating the garment workers unti they collapsed on the sidewalk 1T front of the apartment house, anc smashing the windows of the taxi cab, the thugs threw down theil weapons and took to their heels.
 Frederick Peterson, painter an( decorator, was driving through VII low street on the morning of tn assault, he testified, and was at tracted by the sound of breaking glass. He went to investigate an saw the nine alleged gangsters run ming in his direction. He posltivel, Identified Bloom and Charles Kaky as two of the nine men whom h saw running from the scene of tn assault.
 He said he saw the nine men ge into two waiting automobiles. H took down the license number Of on of the cars, and drove at once to DO lice headquarters where he turne' the number over to the police. Thel he returned to the place where tn beating of the garment workers ha' taken place and picked up th newspapers" which the men hal been using in their attack upon tn garment workers. He discoVere that wrapped in each newspape was one of the heavy sections 0 pool or billiard cues.