The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-23
FAMOUS MURDER
 TRIAL HAS BEGUN
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  of stolen guns, and Lily Pond road, Norwood, where the Packard was found abandoned after an attempt had been made to destroy it by fire.
 Barred from the courtroom last week during empanelment of the jury, the public was admitted to the trial today, but with only per- haps 100 seats available.
 Crowds Gather Early
 As early as 8 q. m., two hours before the scheduled opening time, crowds of curious were gathering at the courthouse.
 Extra details of state police had been assigned to keep spectators in check. Other troopers were sta- toned along the two-block route over which the defendants, Mur- ton and Irving Millen and Abe Faber were brought from the jail to court.
 Seventy-f five newspaper men and women were covering the trial to- day, with indications that the number would swell to at least 100 later in the week.
 As soon as the jury had been polled, District Attorney Edmund R. Dewing made a brief prelimin- ary opening, calling to the jurors attention the places they would visit on their "view-of-the-scene" tour.
 At 2 p. m., on the jury's return, Dewing was to open for the gov ernment, devoting about an hour to outlining his case.
 Hartley White, county engi- neer, was to be called as the first state witness to identify plans of the NeedhanS Trust company and the route over which the bandits escaped.
 The three defendants, shackled to deputy sheriffs and guarded by two troopers in plain clothes. were escorted through the crowds into the courthouse shortly before 10 a. m. They were hatless and with out overcoats. Their clothes were neatly pressed, Faber wearing u new spring suit given him by his parents yesterday.
 In the prisoners pen, awaiting the opening of court, they chatted with their guards.
 Only handful of spectators those holding tickets--were ad- mitted. Among them was Mrs Mar garet Smith Brighton, mother of Murton Millen's pretty young wife Norma, who is held as an alleged accessory to the Needham robbery and murders. Mrs Brighton, q spectator for the first time, sat in the rear of the courtroom, while in a front seat was her divorced husband, the Rev Norman Bright. on. Also in the courtroom were Mrs Philip Faber, Abe's mother. and Joseph Millen, father of the brother defendants, who occupied his usual place within the bar en- closure.
 Attorney William R. Scharton, counsel for Faber. disclosed that his weekend trip to Washington for conference with Clarence Darr6w had been unsuccessful be- cause he had failed to make an appointment with the Chicago criminal lawyer. Scharton said he still hoped to obtain from Chicago court records the hypothetical question used by Darrow in the Loeb-Leopold murder trial of sey: Murton MiIlen Meets Bride Dedham, Mass, April 23-(UP) "A report of the conversation be- tween Murton Millen and his pretty 19-year-old bride, Norma. was to be transmitted to District Attorney Edmund R. Dewing today. For the first time since his ar rest in New York nearly two months ago, the couple were re- united in the rotunda of Dedham jail yesterday. Norma sobbed con- tinuously during the hour they were together.
 Harvey, Norma's attorney. George A. Douglas, ana Lieutonant Detec- tive Joseph Ferrari of the state police. representing Dewing. Fer rari was to send a report of the 1 meeting to the district attorneys office.
 Murton, his brother, Irving, and Abe Faber, university graduate, are on trial for their lives, charged | with the machine-gun killing oi | one of two policemen slain during the $15,000 holdup of the Need | ham Trust company February 9 Norma, daughter of a clergyman Is held in lieu of $25,0G0 cash bail for trial on accessory charges. Her attitude toward her husband was variously described as friend ly" and .'cool." She permitted him l to embrace and kiss her, and they conversed for some time. | Look at the spot I'm in, it'i like Q nightmare" she was quoted as saying.
 sEverything will bc Rll right don't you worry, dear." witnesses said Murton replied.
 Murton was clad in Jail denim Ncrma wore . colored dress and Tho actual trial begins today l when tho 12 jurors, ifiipaneItneni 0f KhQin raquLrAd four days la4I