New Britain herald., 1929-10-23

cipitated one battle after another with Judge Wolfe sustaining objec- tion after objection by the states attorney.
 When Miss Anna Goodman of Ansonia, employe of the company who handled the mortgage releases, came to the stand, Slade experience ed the sa ame difficulty in question ing her. The girl said she drew up releases some time before the money due on mortgages was paid but oth- CT questions, directed at shoWin,, how money was handled after it was received, she was not allowed to an- sWer.
 Court Rebukes Attorney
 Slade was unable to get into the records an answer from Wilson on the volume of business done by the company and he and Judge Wolfe exchanged words because he tried with several differently worded was rebuked for this, on the ground that he was defying a court ruling making such an answer inadmiss- ible,
 The defense's first witness was Charles F. Coates of Hartford, ac- countant who made an audit on the company's books and who yester- day testified for the state. Coates was on the stand for three minutes and was allowed to answer only two of seven questions put to him by defense counsel, Charles J. Mar tin. He said he listed assets of the company "as they appeared Tn the company's books, and identified financial report showing liabilities and assets
 This report was excluded as a de- fense exhibit. Coates testified yes- terday the liabilities were $1,044,- GOO, but was not questioned on as- sets. His answer on the assets to- | day indicated there were some, but he was not allowed to say how much
 Mr. Martin had for a defense witness Andrew B. Riddell. a real estate man of Hartford, to whom he put questions about appraisal and value of property there on which the Parker Smith company had mortgages. The questions were ruled out, the court asking defense attorneys not to persist in asking these questions. l Mr, Martin next had William Morris of New Haven, a real estate man, as witness and he asked for an estimate of the good will of the Parker Smith company. Here Judge Wolfe excused the jury and gave his opinion of the line of question ing.
 The effort to save the officers of the defunct company from i'm prisonment or a fine on 31 em- bezzlement counts was begun by their counsel today.
 The state. which charges the men embedded s166,400 from investors closed it's side of the case late yes- terday after it's principal witness, Coates, had spent five hours on the stand testifying to the methods of financing employed by the three officers.
 Called by Defense
 Defense counsel in recalling Coates to the stand today, as a de- fense witness sought to show that the company's liabilities are less than s1044000, the figure which Coates testified to yesterday. It also tried to show through Coates, that the company had assets and that the liabilities were not the result of in tentions to defraud but rather of poor business management and bad
 judgment"
 Coates was not questioned yester-
 day on assets or on the use of money taken by the officers from mortgage trust accounts and placed in their company's treasury accounts in two New Haven banks
 An effort yesterday to show what was done with the money after it got into the companys treasury fail ed when Judge Isaac Wolfe sus- tained an objection by States At torney Samuel E. Hoyt.