New Britain herald., 1929-02-08
HART TAKES STAND
 IN $5,O00 SUIT
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thees thinss out of bootleg money xaA he also said that Mr. Medley of Wallinstoa street would let anyone use . room In his house to look out a Chief Hart's property and see the cars driving up to pay the money" she said.
 Doesa't Keep Tabs On Husband
 Cross-examtned at length. Mrs. Gardiner said her husband was not obliged to tell her of every move he made and she did not know all his business. but she knew he was inter- ested in the enforcement of the prohibition law Hike any good citi- gen." She did not know in par ticular that he was investigating the police department. but she recalled the day he was summoned to the police commissioners conference. She did not know he had written to the police board chairman. Rodman W. Chamberlain.
 Mrs. Viola Clark. daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Gardiner, testified that she returned home from work at the North & Judd factory about 4:15 o'clock the afternoon PaJew- ski was calling on her father. She is . widow and has one son. she said. She lives with her parents apA she knew Ira Leonard but had Ilot seen Pajewski until that day. She heard voices in the room and Co hn "a who was talking. She corroborated the testimony of her mother. She did not stay throughout the conver- sation. she said. because Pajewski's $ swearing made me mad"
 Ncighbor Identifies Pajewski
 Mrs. Catherine Labotoski testified that she lived on the second floor of the house at { Connecticut ave- nue and the Gardiner family occu- pied the first floor. On the day in question a man called at her door and inquired for Henry F.. Gardi- ner. She directed him to the Gard iner tenement. She remembered that it was between 1 and o'clock in the afternoon because she was pre- pairing supper and her husband worked until o'clock.
 Asked by Judge Mangan to identi. fy the man who called at her home she stood up in the witness stand and picked out Pajewski. Asked ii she was positive. she hesitated and said 1t looked very much like him but she could not be sure. He had a little mustache," she said. Pajew' ski has a mustache.
 Judge Mangan offered the letter which Gardiner sent to the fedora authorities, in evidence, and it wal admitted, but the copy of thu Bridgeport Herald. in which the al legged slanderous statements wer, printed, was excluded on objection by Attorney Monkiewicz.
 Reporter On Stand
 Judge Mangan called Edgar Le Roy Pond of Newington, reporte for the Bridgeport Herald. and ask ed him to identify a letter he re ceived from Gardiner. inviting hin to call at his home and promisin interesting reading matter concern ing laxity in law enforcement i New Britain. The letter was admit ted in evidence as against Gardine but not as against Pajewski.
 Pond told of going to Gardiner h mo and of causing publication c the newspaper story" on March . 1928. Attorney Monkiewicz aske Judge Dickenson to warn the jur that this testimony was not to b considered as against Pajewski an the court did 70. Attorney Casal asked Pond if he had ever bee threatened with lawsuit or arrest 2 . result of the publication of tn story" and he replied negativel! nor did he know that the publish ing company itself had been threat ened in any way.
 Tried to Borrow Club Key
 At 3:30 o'clock. Chief Hart wa called to the witness stand m there was . buxz of expectanc about the galleries, which were we hlled, but Judge Mangan change his plan and called Frank R. Hahl formerly . policeman in New Bri ain. He testified that he kne Leonard and had met Gardin' once. It was late in the year 19: and he was i'll at home. he sal Leonard telephoned to him ar asked to zee him on a matter of il terest to him. 70 Hahn told him come at once.
 Soon. Leonard and Gardiner a rived at Hahn's home and for