The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-04
NORMAN KNIGHT
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copies of the warrant sheets for the years including 1930 through 1887 copies of the sheets approved by the various departmental boards as Sub- mitted to the controller.
 In several cases, it was learned these sheets were not available be- yond the years 1886 and 1887. The departments visited were the police fire, park and health.
 This phase of the preparation fo1 the grand jury session was seen as an attempt of the investigators to fill in" what they have termed missing records" In some instances 1t has been alleged, sheets were missing from the warrant books of the years 1880 through 1885. The items listed on the warrant sheets however, appear on the general ledgers, together with the check numbers and the appropriation ac- counts against which they were charged.
 Detective Hickey and Greer, with MT. Brown, spent most of late yes- l terday afternoon visiting offices in city hall. They conferred in various set>ions of the building before re- visiting departments where the of | ficials in charge were sc ught to pro- vide the copies of the warrant sheets. County Commissioners At the county courflouse where the thlrd-floor courtroom has been sealed up' preparatory to the Se- cret grand jury questioning of witt | nesSeS, the county commissioners paid visit. Led by Commissioner Jacob D. Walter of Cheshire, the other commissioners, Matthew A. Daly and Robert H. Gerrish, of New Haven, and East Haven, respective ly, inspected the courtroom.
 They had been asked to have the ventilatorS in the court room blocked off" so that none of the proceedings could be overheard by any in the judges chamber or the adjoining office where stenograph- CTS once worked. Also, the door leading to the attic had been dou- ble-locked without keyhole, ap- proximating a sealing up" of the entry.
 This was done, 1t was reported, so that none might climb to the space above the courtroom and pos slbly overhear the proceedings. h. spection has been made, also, of the wiring to ascertain whether in- stallation of dictographs or wire tapping had been attempted, pre- sumably under the direction of Prosecutor Acorn.
 The county commissioners said that they were looking over the various changes requested by the prosecutor and the building super lntendent, Ira c. Stevens, was called to unlock the courtroom and to eX- plain what had been done. Hooks for coats and hats and quantity of glasses on table were prepara- tions made in the coatroom which the jurors will use.
 No New Developments Sheriff Slavin said that there were no new developments beyond the choosing of the last juror for im- mediate consideration. This was taken to mean that he had not been given list of the first wit nesses to be summoned either tomorrow or Monday for the pro- ceedingS which start at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 Some reports were to the effect that the first witness may be Con- troller Sherwood L. Rowland, who, with his special aide, William J. Armstrong, the accountant hired to examine the controllers affairs and who accompanied MT. Rowland in- to office january 3, have been in- stigators of a portion of the inves- tigation. Then, too, James F. Pur- cell, the accountant in the control ler's office who discovered" that the warrant books of 1886 and 1887 Q1 monthS) were missing, is among the first probable group which MT. Alcorn promises will see plenty of witnesses and plenty of actiCn.'
 Testimony Awaited
 How the testimony Of these wit nesses before the grand jury will be regarded, in terms of MT. AL corn's planned secrecy, is not RIOWQ. III the eXCTaOrQlnary grand jury investigation of the Merritt Parkway land deals, now under way at Bridgeport, the wit nesses have described their testi- mony before the grand jury.
 InaSmuch as Controller RoWlandS s charges have been prepared and publicized throughout the past two months, it was deemed unlikely to- day that anything new will develop in the first days of questioning of witnesses by the grand jurors. What the line of questioning may be is in the hands of MT. Alcorn who, be- cause he has had 8 direct line to his Hartford office installed at the third floor courtroom, is considered likely to delegate some of the ques- tioning to the lawyer on the grand jury, Carl Lundgren, Ansonia pros- ecutor, who was 8 classmate of MT. Alcorn's son and assistant, Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., at Yale law school, following his graduation from Dart mouth college, class of '28.
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