The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-03

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 the same basis, his bill will be about $48,000. As a matter of fact, he added, Brown has stated that his fee will be about $50,000 for the work.
 | Pausing a while for the effect, he shot out, And that is two-thirds of the salary of the President of the United States, if my memory serves me right"
 If that does not count, then I am not aware of what does count in evaluating the testimony of a witness"
 Concentrating on the trait of bias, Crawford added that Brown had been asked If he desired convic- tion. Brown hedged a bit, but final ly when the relentless cross-exam- iner would not take evasion for an answer, his answer was "Yes," Craw- ford said.
 He knew it was too much for you to swallow that he was indifferent of the outcome" Crawford added. "Yellow Dog" It was at that moment that Craw- ford, in summing up his attacks on the five key witnesses of the state, Levy, Williamson, Purcell, Macken- zie and Brown said, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I am going to be brutally frank with you and I hope you will pardon me for be- ing brutally frank. You may not agree with me, but so far as I am concerned on such testimony as this I would not send yellow dog to the pound, let alone 2 human being to prison"
 Pausing again for effect on the jury, he then added, Nov, I want to pass on."
 From there he went on to a de- scription of what he thought the charges had been in the case. The case had been compared to a tree trunk and its branches, he said, with its roots sinking into the ground, in the form of the alleged illegal Levy contract for utilities survey.
 The defense expert contended that the atate had failed to show the con- tract illegal and thus there were no roots for the tree.
 In subsequent attack on James P. Purcell, formerly associated with the controllers office of the city, Crawford displayed to the jury a check for $84 payable to Purcell. It was made out on an ordinary type writer, and was not approved by the board of finance, and charged to the wrong appropriation.
 Applicable to Self
 Every irregularity which Purcell ascribeS to other checks so drawn is applicable to his own check which he drew himself" said Crawford "There was no approval for the check, dated October 30, 1895, and on the basis of his own check, If anyone should know what a legiti- mate check is, he should know"
 Crawford's voice was raised at one point in the morning session to combat the effect of police depart ment street broadcasting campaign, in promotion of Its field day pro- gram today. The song "All Right" was blaring forth as the car moved in the vicinity of the courthouse.
 Throughout his arguments to the jury, Crawford often prefaced his remarks with the words, Bless you"
 No Apology
 In closing this mornings phase of his argument, he said, T have talk en little time, but I don't apolo- glze. can't apologize for do- ing my duty" His argument was six and quarter hours old at the one o'clock recess, and he had not fin- ished
 T took a lot of time on general claims" he added to the jury, Tt was necessary for my client" The argument was necessary to meet AL corns adroit way of making insinu- ations and suddenness of making suggestions" he said.
 Special Prosecutor Hugh M. AL corn, Sr., will make the final ar- gument to the jury, after all de- fense counsel have had their say.
 Crawford's criticism of Brown in- cluded reference to Browns own testimony to the effect that he had | worked for the city of Hartford on the orders of the mayor and two aldermen, when there was no ap- for the work at hand.
 Swinging into references to war rants payable sheets, Crawford asked, Have you ever by any chance heard of warrants payable sheetsP Or are you able to get them out of your mind?"
 No Laughs
 Crawford laughed, but the jury re- mained silent and stone-faced. Sel- dom do the ten men and four Wo- men show any emotion,
 As the defense attorney voiced his defense of the finance board, and abused Hugh M. Alcorn Jr.'s criti- cisms, he referred particularly to Commissioners Harley w. Tripp and Major Judge, as Republicans, and ]