The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-08

before and exchanged greetings without the necessity of introduc- tion. Hickey remained about 10 min uteS with Mayor Hayes while a messenger was sent for the desired copies of the city charter.
 Talk with City Clerk
 Hickey and his assistant then went directly to the office of City Clerk John F. Fitzmaurice, where they were closeted with that official for more than 15 minutes. MT. Fitz- maurice said that in consideration to MT. Hickey's desires he would rather not relate the matters dis cuSsed.
 Under direct questioning he ad- mitted that MT. Hickey had asked him about the sheets used in the last election. He did not ask to see them however, and could not take them from the office of the city clerk without a court order.
 Back to Rowland
 From the office of City Clerk Fitzmaurice the two investigators went directly to the office of Con- troller Sherwood L. Rowland. Short ly, however, MT, Greer returned to the city clerks office for the copies of the city charter which he had obtained from Mayor Hayes. Appar- ently he had forgotten them as he left the city clerks office.
 Hickey's appearance in Waterbury so early today surprised spectators for he was on the job until the wee hours this morning.
 All Records Go Out
 At 1920 this morning he directed the removal of all remaining records of city expenditures covering the period January l, 1930 to January 3: 1888 from the City Hall vaults to Hartford.
 The removal was made possible with the issuance of an order by Judge Ernest A. Inglis, who will pre- side at any subsequent issuances of the case. Even the books over which auditors of the Griffenhagen com- pany had been boring, were re- moved to Hartford, and they will have to follow to complete their project.
 Proper Procedure
 Removal of the records was de- cided as proper procedure at a meet ing yesterday afternoon attended by Special Assistant Prosecutors Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., and Harold E. Mitch ell; Detectives Hickey and Greer and Auditor Warren M. Brown of Hartford. Hickey and Greer were in Waterbury yesterday morning and at that time stated that they could not say as to whether any more records would be impounded.
 When Hickey, Greer and Brown returned here last night at 6 o'clock, they went into consultation with Controller Sherwood L. RoWl- and, Attorney William w. Gager. his legal adviser, and James G. Rob- inSon, auditor, who is in charge of the audit being conducted by Grif- fenhagen and Associates.
 Judge Inglis Gave Order
 It is reported that Rowland ag- reed to allow the records to be transported to Hartford without any written order from Judge Ing lis, but that Robinson advised him to await the delivery of the written order. Judge Inglis was contacted at his Middletown home by Hickey, and he agreed to dispatch the writ ten order by state policeman.
 While awaiting the written order the records were moved from the vaults to the waiting truck. This completed, the officials then waited four additional hours before the trooper, Harry Leavitt of the Hart ford barracks arrived, at 1920 a. m.
 Hickey then gave the order to the truck driver to proceed to Hartford and store the records in the Hart ford county building.
 Order Goes To Rowland
 The order, four pages long, was given to Rowland by Hickey who stated, Acting under the order of Judge Ernest A. Inglis, we have turned over certain records as re- quested by the office of States At torney Hugh M. Alcorn." He de- clined to elaborate on this.
 Records removed from the city hall to the Hartford court house in- cluded: two large cabinet files, about two dozen file drawers, card indexes, seven bulky warrant books, envelope files and all the available records for 1886 and 1887, up to January 3, 1888.
 Alcorn Has Them All
 This action brings to Special Pro- secutor Alcorns office all the avail able records of financial transac- tions of the city of Waterbury dur ing the term of Daniel J. Leary as controller.
 A large number of records which had been spread out on desks in the aldermanic chambers by the Grif- fenhagen auditors, were included in those taken into custody by Hickey and his assistants.
 Reports from Griffenhagen & As- sociates, at the completion of their audit, will be given Mayor Hayes and States Attorney Alcorn.
 MT. Alcorn will also be given a re- port from MT. Brown, who has worked with him on several other cases, notably the Kingston case in 1881. He has appeared as states star witness in numerous other cases prosecuted by MT. Alcorn.
 Free Access To Books
 Griffenhagen & Associates will have free access to the books which have been impounded by the spe- cial prosecutor, but will have to shift their scene of activities from Waterbury to Hartford. They un- doubtedly will work side by side with MT. Brown, whose reports to MT. AL corn will not necessarily be made after a complete audit, but may be made at intermittent periods.
 Three truckers were assisted by MT. Hickey and his staff in the transportation of the records from