The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-17
Detectives Framed
WeinStein, Trying
To Make Him A Spy
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Muskin shop fifteen years later
which forced the workers there to
go on strike for better conditions.
The strikers elected him their leader.
He told OF Weisglass' scabbing and
the attempts of the workers TO find
the Scabs address to hold DEM
onstration in front of his house. They
wanted to let the other workers in
the neighborhood know that he was
seabbing.
It was during this questioning that
Weinstein told Of the third degree
methods of the police. Six detectives
had stood around him. Questions
were flung at him from all sides
during the grilling last July in an
effort to confuse him and force him
to admit a crime he never committed.
For Is hours he was under the con-
slant questioning of the police.
At the beginning of the afternoon
session the present Commander OF
the American Legion Post 80, of which
Weinstein is a member, John J. Kier-
man, and the past Commander, A. j.
Gross, testified to the excellent char
acter of Weinstein, and praised him
highly.
MFR. David Bloom, landlord of the
house where Weinstein and his sister
lived at the time OF the assault, said
that though he didn't like either
Weinstein or the latter's sister, he
refused to send an innocent man to
jail. Bloom testified that he saw
Weinstein leave his home in Brook
Ign at the time Weisglass and his
wife were attacked in the Bronx. :.
Was Not in Bronx
The district attorney asked Bloom:
What time did you see Weinstein?"
Answer: "a few minutes after six
O'Clock"
Question; What did you say to
him?n
Answer: Il said Hello"
Question: How do you know MI.
Weinstein?"
Answer: Il know him very we'll, be-
cause he lived with his sister in my
house and they caused me plenty
trouble. When they moved she made
me plenty Of trouble and don't like
them at all. But although / don't
like them, What can I do? ] don't
like to see an innocent man go to
Jail, let it be Weinstein or anybody
else"
Question: "Tell me how you re-
member July 19th?"
Answer: Il tell you | know for a
fact that he was not in the Bronx at
that time"
The barber, Mr. ziedman, further
testified that at am. he gave
Weinstein a shave. David Dunherg,
tailor across the street from the
Muskin factory, swore that he saw
Weinstein in the barber shop at 7:l0
that morning and saw the militant
worker picketing the factory later.
Frank again tried to raise "red
cry" in the court, but was cut short
by the effective demonstrations OF
Brodsky.
M. A. DIX, attorney, OF BAT Madi-
son Avenue, put the testimony OF a
candy store owner, who said he saw
Weinstein run from the scene Of the
attack, TO naught when he listed the
distractions of trees, lamp posts, fire
hydrants, elevated structure and
posts which made view impossible
from across the street. He also tes-
titled that it takes more than an
hour to go to Brooklyn from that
section OF the Bronx. which showed
the impossibility Of Weinstein having
been there.
The defense rested its case yester-
day, but the trial continues today
with the prosecution summing UP.
AS the trial proceeds, it becomes
ever clearer that Sam Weinstein is
being framed for being a militant
worker who struck for the right 10
live.
A Weinstein Mass Defense Meeting
will be held tonight at 524 Vermont
Street in East New York, under the
auspices of the Alfred Levy Branch
of the International Labor Defense.