The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

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 A guard intervened politely at that point, saying she was still in custody and could not talk. Mrs. Rubens, round-faced and healthy looking and attractively made up, was smoking Russian cigaret. At the hearing she had ] no lawyer, there were not witnesses and no prosecutor.
 | Moscow, June 9.-(UP)-Mrs Ruth Rubens, American involved in one fo the biggest espionage-pass- poht fraud cases in recent years, is to be tried openly in the municipal court at once, it was understood to- day.
 There was a possibility, it was said, that the case would be reached today.
 Mrs. Rubens and her husband, Adolf Arnold Rubens, were seized in Moscow on espionage charges in December, 1887, and little had been heard of them since.
 Out of the arrests came pass port fraud trial in New York. Ed ward Blatt, lawyer, friend of Ru- bens; Ossip Garber and Aaron Sharfin, were sentenced to two years in prison each by federal court in New York city May g last. Blatt was charged with sending forged passports from the state department to homes of his friends and rela- tives, Garber with forging passport ,, photographs and Sharfin with get ting false passport applications ap- proved.
 They Kept Silent The three men remained silent through the trial and sentencing, in keeping with the deep mystery which attached to the Rubens case from its beginning.
 Prosecuting authorities were not even able to establish the true named of Rubens, who went also under the name of Donald Louis Robinson. The Rubenses, it was held, used forged passports to enter Russia Mrs. Frederick Boerger, of Miami, Fla, mother of Mrs. Rubens, testi- fled at the New York trial that her daughter and Rubens sailed hurried ly for Europe in October, 1887, after a secret midnight call at their apart ment.
 Mrs. Boerger had lived with the couple for more than two years, she testified as a government witness. She said she knew little about Ru- bens but had believed that as a writer he had paid two previous visits to Europe, several to Canada and many to other places includinug Chicago.
 Midnight Visit
 Relating the midnight visit that preceded the last voyage, Mrs. Boer- ger said that she pleaded with her daughter and son-in-law not to leave so precipitously. She contin- ued:
 Marie told me that when Arnold gets call he must go immediately"
 Two sisters of Mrs. Rubens said that the couple lived at five different places in three years, that Rubens kept a secret locked room at four of them, and that he had paid $500 to now defunct magazine for permis- sion to be known as its assistant editor.
 Albert Marinelli, a New York Tammany leader, admitted at the passport trial that he had had au- thorized certification of passport applications used by members of the alleged passport ring, but that he had not even seen them. Previously Marinelli had resigned as county clerk in which capacity he had au- thorized the certification = under fire of charges by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
 Two Rubens Disappear It was disclosed in Moscow dis patch of the United Press December 9, 1887, that Arnold and Ruth Rubens had disappeared suddenly, in most mysterious circumstances, from their rooms at the National hotel.
 The hotel immediately adjoins the American embassy. Rubens. or Robinson as he was known to Americans in Moscow, dis- appeared first. Several days later his pretty blonde wife told American correspondents that he had left their quarters obtensIbly to 90 to c hospital to Do treated for fever Mrs Rubens appeared to have been weeping.
 Next day Mrs. Rubens had dis- appeared. She had been seen entering her bedroom the night before. but the bod had not been slept in. American embassy officials found