The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-28

? trial involving the element school youths and the duties their children for mixed companionships. ended at 6:34 p. m yesterday amid such a jubilant up- roar that Judge Thomas Downs cleared the courtroom and threatened spectators with jail terms. Families Nervous
 The boys parents, hysterical with anxiety, were across the street at the defense attorney. office. Char lotte's parents, Fred Matthiesen and his wife, were seate ( in the front row, keeping the family vigil on the boy who had admitted killing their only "hild because she was about to bear him a child and they were afraid to tell their parents. Donald said he had planned to kill himself, too, but lost his courage after killing her, at her request.
 Mrs. Matthiesen was one of the first to reach his side after the jury reported. Tears streaming down her face, she hugged and kissed him.
 T prayed for him. she said, as guards pulled her away. T knew my girl would want it that way. We can make many things good now leased my girl too much. I didn't take her seriously in her affairs with boys. Now I have to make it up to Donald"
 Girls Father Smiled
 The blond, handsome boy looked beyond the rail for his parents. They were not there, but he saw Mat thiesen, the girls father, smiling broadly and saying: Its swell"
 A few hours carrier, Matthiesen, livid with rage, had tried to spring on Prosecuotr Joseph V. Loscalzo for saying, in his final plea to the jury that the Matthiesens had "sold their souls" by refusing to aid the prose- cution, and that T represent the girl who has been sacrificed and dis graced abandoned even by her father and mother"
 The Mattheisens blamed them selves for the tragedy, as parents who had neglected to properly in- Struct their child.
 The courtroom was exceptionally tense throughout the final argu- mentS and the three hours of jury deliberations. Loscalzo did not ask for the death penalty but he ac- cused Donald of cold blooded mur- der. He denied that the boy ever had intended to kill himself, and he eXcoriated the Matthiesens.
 He had tried during the trial to introduce a check which he inferred was made out to Matthiesen.
 Father of Girl Wild
 "The other side has gone so far as almost to make a prostitute out of this girl" he said. "The poor girl is dead and nobody is here to pro- tect her. I have never realized that a father or mother, no matter what a girl may have been, could sell their souls to do the thirgs that were done in this case I have no faith ill MT. and Mrs. Matthiesen. They sold themselves. what for, I'm not at liberty to tell"
 Matthiesen rose in his seat tremb- ling with rage. A uniformed guard approached. Mrs. Carols brother put an arm around him and Whis- pered. Mrs. Matthiesen patted him.
 Outside, at recess, Matthiesen, former German army officer, said: He doScalzo) represented the state but if l could have got my hands on him I would have made chopped meat of him. Is this the majesty Of the law? If citizen can be in- suited by public official in court like this, don't give a rap for this country" Gle is naturalized citi- zen)
 Defect of Reason
 The defense lawyer, Sidney Rosen- thai, pleaded that Donald was suf- fering from defect of reason when he killed the girl.
 Under the law, this generates him. he said. Return him home so he can heal the scar he has made in the lives of four parents"
 While waiting for the verdict Judge Downs berated the spectators. 'Loafers! Fools! Hane..g around here watching this boy" he would say
 Why don't you go to work?"
 He was annoyed because hte spec tators had been chattering and tit- tering.
 He warned that each disturber after the verdict was announced would be sent to jail for the month, but when the foreman, Archer H. Quick, who has two boys and two girls, read the decision, the crowd reacted thunderously. The judge halted proceedings for 10 minutes while the room was cleared.