The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-11
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wholesale arrests, they cooperated
with the grand jury and offered
valuable assistance and testimony.
On previous occasions Attorney
Hadden has been in lengthy con-
ference with Mr.. Alcorn.
Levy has pleaded not guilty, but has
not joined with the other Defend
ants in the mass of preliminary de-
tense moves. Mackenzie has not as
yet been put to plea.
Three Lawyers Commented
Only three of the corps of de-
tense counsel commented in court
yesterday at the hearing which re-
suited in the setting of the trial
date. Attorney James D. g. Murray
counsel for Mayor Hayes offered no
opposition as he commented. I'VE
have no objection to an early trial,
in fact we have asked for it from
the beginning.
Attorney Patrick Healey, coun-
sci for John s. Johnston, Thomas
j. Fleming, Henry w. Minor, Thorn
as Shanahan, John H. Crary and
Michael F. Slavin commented, I'VE
will welcome trial as early as pos
Sible."
Only Objector
The only absolute objector to the
motion for trial November % was
Attorney Josiah H. Peck, counsel
for Daniel j. Leary. He concluded
that the trial should not start until
the courts have ruled on the quo
warranto action and his mandamus
which is an alternative move to
gain access to the jury's minutes.
Argued During December
The quo warranto will be argued
during the December term of the
supreme court of errors and the
mandamus is scheduled for hearing
Tuesday morning before Judge
Simpson in superior court.
Judge Simpsons said that both
matters would undoubtedly be dis
posed of before the jrry was Sc
lected to hear the trial.
He commented that the drawing
of the jury would be a difficult
task. It has been previously stated
that with the Is defendants who
have chosen jury trial utilizing their
eight challenges each, ant. the state
making use of eight challenges in
each case, 400 jurors might be elm
mated. One of tho IS defendants
will place his fate in the hands Of
Judge -nglis instead of the jury.
1O4O On Jury List
At the present time there are 1040
people, including women, on the
New Haven county jury list. This
does not include the So Waterbur-
ians who were recently declared in
eligible by Judge Simpson, because
they were improperly selected.
At the hearing next Friday, Judge
Inglis is expected to designate sew
eral hundred of the 1040 as poten-
tally eligible for the conspiracy
trial. He will also designate which
of these several hundred shall be.
present at the opening day of the
trial.
In this manner, with 80 or 40
prospective jurors appearing for
polling each day, considerable con-
fusion will be eliminated. There is
a strong possibility that in view Of
the lack of facilities of the Water
bury court house, women will be
omitted from the eligible list.
Will Take Several Weeks
It is expected that several weeks
will elapse after November 20 be-
fore the jury of IL has been select
ed. There is also a definite pos
sibility that when they are selected
they will be clustered, in the man
ner of the jury in the recent trial
of James J. Hines of New York.
In view of the fact that the grand
jury's report received such wide
spread publicity, including mention
several radio hroadcaStS during the