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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27
Coincidences Connect Name OF Former Mayor #. P. GuilfoiLe

bury Trust O., would get its money through the check that would be regular. The payee would not, but the amount would go on the book; the check to go back to the Citizens Bank; 1t would be honored and paid and the check would go back to the City of Waterbury-and then gone.
 Judge: As far as this particular check is concerned, think I see enough connection, so 1t ought to be admitted.
 Cassidy Explains
 Cassidy: Further than that, if the court pleases, the claim is as I understand, that if MT. Guilfoile was paid this amount of money, that the amount was paid, he didn't furnish services for that amount. And as he was paid five or six thou- sand dollars, but he didn't furnish services for that amount of money and, therefore, the city was de- frauded. All right, now, if that is the claim we are going to try that collateral issue as to whether or not MT. Guilfoile furnished services to the amount of $6,000. That is what the admission of this check is. My understanding is he claims that he got $6 ,000 and didn't render services. Suppose got $6,o00 or another member of the bar, if we rendered services to the city. we didn't de- fraud the city of Waterbury.
 There is no information to in- form MT. Guilfoile that he is to be attacked here or that he received $6,00O or that he was part of this fraud or that he was a conspirator, :, in effect, See how unfair 1t IS to him.
 Judge Inglis: It is connected by means of system; it is connected by means of coincidence of dates and amounts and tends to prove 1t as the state claims.
 Alcorn: Take for instance, the $18,000 in bills that came from Boston. Santalucia got $118.25. Then it is lost The treasurer's check for $11S.25-that is all that is left. That is departmental transfer. This is fraud and conspiracy, and this offer that I'm making of this particular check shows that the system was followed in that case, of course, with the inference that it was covered up; they wanted to cover it up, and they did cover it, too-very well at it.
 Judge: think that there is enough relevancy here in connecting with what MT. Alcorn says about the other evidence of the case.
 So expect I'll admit this check.
 The check was then marked ex- hibit $40.
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(Continued from Page D mans screams and went to the neighboring bungalow to investigate. He found Mrs. Nicholson, in her night clothes, in bed, bleeding pro- fusely. The knife was found in the bedroom.
 After giving first aid, he took her to the hospital where her condition was said to be fair.
 The Nicholson children, Jackie. g, and Marie, 3, were visiting relatives at the time.
 Roared Away To Death
 Following the stabbing, Nichol- son took his wife's keys, got into her coupe, and roared away toward Boston.
 Police were clearing away bricks which had been strew,l across the highway in the previous accident when they heard Nicholson's car ap- preaching. Seconds later the crash occurred, and Nicholson was dead, His neck broken, when officers reached him.
 Though the coupe was demolished, the driver of the truck, George Rob- ert Riley, about 30, of 325 Newport avenue, Wollaston, was unhurt.
 Police learned that Nicholson had been in poor health.
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Subpoena Giuen
 Miss McDernaott

Miss Margaret McDermott. stenographer in the office of the corporation counsel at the city hall, has been given a sub poena to appear tomorrow at the Waterbury conspiracy trial as witness for the state, it was reported today.
 Corporation Counsel Charles g. OConnor Is one of the g ac- cused now on trial in superior court.
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(Continued rum Eage 1l battery, had been named as the leader.
 valenti has criminal record in this country and Italy. Deportation proceedings against him are pend- ing. Philadelphia police will be in New York Monday with extradition papers for him.
 Others Involved Others so far involved in the case are:
 Herman Petrillo, a spaghetti sales- man, convicted of having helped to murder the husband of Mrs. Stella Alfonsi.
 Mrs. Carina Favato, who inter- rupted her trial by pleading guilty to the murders of her common-law husband, her stepson and another man and who, police said, had im- plicated more than 75 persons in- cluding doctors and insurance agents.
 Mrs. Josephine Romaldo, 4l, who confessed to complicity in the mur- der of her husband, Antonio, who had $7,000 insurance.
 Mrs. Agnes Mantiuk, under arrest in connection with the murder of her husband, Romaine, who had $14,000 insurance.
 Mrs. Susie Di Martino, who has been charged with the murder of her husband, Giuseppi.
 Emilio Muscelli, 30, who allegedly posed as Mrs. Di Martino's husband in applying for insurance.
 Mrs. Stella Alfonsi, who is under indictment for her husbands mur- der.
 Operated in Five States Kelly said the ring operated in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jer- sey, Delaware and Connecticut, but committed most of its murders here. All victims so far known were hus- bands. All were given arsenic. Valenti, Kelly said, interviewed many of the wives involved, and, if convinced they could be trusted, in- structed them how to administer the poison. It was administered gradually to make death seem nat ural.
 There were agents for each sec- tion of Philadelphia. If any clients needed persuasion, the agents would make love to them as an added in- ducement. Sometimes Kelly said, the agent would propose marriage after the husband was disposed of. The actual poisoning usually was left to the wives although the agents sup- piled the arsenic.
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city check for $6OOO, which claimed was given Guilfoile.
 Was Not Recorded

GUY GueGk lOI $oWUVs WtiCn Ae claimed was given Guilfoile.
 Was Not Recorded
 It was his contention, he said that although the city check went through the Waterbury Trust corn- pany, 1t was not recorded any place. 1t was sent back to the Citizens & Manufacturers National bank, on which 1t was drawn, for payment, then returned to the city, "and burned up," he concluded.
 olsen Got The Cash
 Concerning the payment of the money, he said, the treasurer's check was taken to the tellers cage, and Olsen got the cash. from Calvin R. Richardson. The latter, who has been 6 states witness, he said, would enter 1t on his sheet as $6,000, s'treasurer's check"
 And the identity of the check was entirely lost,' shouted Alcorn.
 T see enough connection to ad- init it." stated Judge Inglis, although attorneys for the defense were in- clined to argue at additional length against 1t.
 Judge Understood
 Judge Inglis said that he under stood the coincidence of connection of dates and amounts tends to prove the system"
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn then referred to the $18,000 which evil dence presented yesterday purport- ed to show was delivered to the Waterbury Trust Company the day
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Treasurer's Checks
 Exhibited Yesterday
Eight Marked Payable to Frank J. Santalucia - Ad-
 mtted as Evidence-Banks Records Presented

gave no indication as to his purpose. Only during the argument for ad- mission of a federal reserve notice and treasurer,s check for $118.25 to Santalucia did he make an ex- planatory statement, and that was in the absence of the jury.
 In Anticipation
 Alcorn claimed that the Water bury Trust Company. through Carl D. Olsen, obtained $18,000 in $100 bills from the Boston reserve in an- ticipation of the assurance of 23 city checks. He attempted to con- nect the treasurer's check for $118.25 in the transaction, because the g city checks totalled $18,11825. He pointed out that the amounts cor responded.
 It is generally understood that the records being identified by John- ston will be used when the state calls Warren M. Brown, accountant, to the stand. When Brown is called it is expected that the states case will have been practically concluded.
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Eleven Waterbury Trust Company treasurer's checks, representing a total of $76,038.1l payable to Frank J. (Burns) Santalucia and Philip Coppeto were introduced as evidence in the Waterbury conspiracy trial yesterday afternoon. Eight of the eleven were to Santalucia, for $6o,o64.68.
 The treasurer's checks were signed by Carl D. Olsen.
 Bank Accounts
 Bank records said by Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn to repre- sent the accounts of Santalucia, Cop peto and Donate Pietraroria (Dan Peters,, another defendant, were identified by Albert A. Johnson, a witness yesterday. Hundreds of de- posit slips and dozens of ledger cards and other items were marked as of- ficial court records, bringing the total number of state exhibits well beyond the 300 mark.
 Concerning the issuance of treas urer,s checks, Alcorn has contended in the absence of the jury, that such methods were used to cover the pay ment of city money to contractors and others.
 Judge Inglis yesterday denied g request by Defense Attorney John H Cassidy that newspaper reporters be barred from printing what trans pires in the courtroom during the absence of the jury. The presiding judge stated that the jurors have been instructed not to read the newspapers.
 AS the multitude of bank records was identified and admitted in evil dence, Special Prosecutor Alcorn
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CTS might be forced to take imme. diate steps of Q military nature to strengthen their own position. The transformation of the anti-Com- munist pact into a military alliance was most frequently mentioned as a possibls counter move.
 Berlin, April 27-(UP)-Well-in- formed sources predicted today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in his speech to the Reichstag tomorrow would refuse to accept President Roose- velt in any role as mediator in settlement between Germany and other powers.
 Also, it was said, Hitler will refuse German participation in any confer. ence which might be called by Pres ident Roosevelt.
 As a background for his rejection. Hitler is expected to deal exhaus- lively with German-American rela- tions since the entry of the United States into the World War, with particular reference to Woodrow Wilson's IA points.
 While rejecting MT. Roosevelts peace proposals, Hitler is expected to re-emphasize his desire for peace.
 Reichstag members were arriving in Berlin today for the speech, in which Hitler is expected not only to answer President Roosevelt's peace proposals, but Britain's conscription move.
 London, April 27-(UP)-Peace in Europe is in the balance and "a very little one way or another" may pre- cipitate war, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the house of com mons today.
 The prime minister, in opening de- bate on his decision to introduce peace time conscription, which is bitterly opposed by labor, said that:
 T do not want to give you the idea that war is imminent. do not think 1t is. do think we are in a position in which a very little one way or another may decide whether war is going to come or not"
 He also indicated he felt disaster had been averted by the conscription decision.
 T would have been stupid to pre- fer to lead the country to disaster rather than take the decision an- nounced yesterday, he declared. He also said conscription is so impor- tant that the government may be forced to call 8 general election if the opposition pushed the controver- sy over the issue too far.
 Warships On Move
 Paris, April 27-(UP) French and German warships moved near the western entrance to the Mediterranean today as Soviet Rus sia was reported negotiating with Rumarlia to back up statement that the Moscow government is pre-. pared to aid the European anti-ag- gression front.
 Apparently rushing negotiations in advance of Adolf Hitler,s speech to the Reichstag tomorrow, Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador 10 London, arrived in Paris from Mos COW by way of Copenhagen, where he told the press that Prussia is ready to help with materials and machines if the western demorcacies are attacked"
 Maisky was reported arranging secret conference with 0rigore Gaf. encu, the Rumanian foreign minis ter who is now in Paris, on terms oi Russian aid-presumably munitions arms and airplares in event of war
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DE VALERA NOT
 COMING TO U.S 5.
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T would like to add that I feel extremely grateful to President Roosevelt and the American people for their invitation to me as 8 rep- resentative of the Irish nation and for the preparations they made to receive me-" he said.
 'T am sure they will understand that nothing but situtaion of real gravity would have prevented me from fulfilling my engagements as arranged.
 Many Engagements
 Those engagements included not merely opening the Irish pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair, which I was invited formally to open, and an official visit to the president of the United States, but also visits tc very large number of principal cities in the United States, includ- ing Chicago where was to address a convention of people of Irish origin from all parts of America
 Official circles decline to reveal the nature of the "offenses", but Il was known that they referred to the Irish nation and were understood in some quarters to have been connect ed with Great Britain's conscrip- ton announcement.
 NORTHERN IRELAND TO ACT
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, April T.-(UP)-Northern Ireland will carry out Great Britain's conscrip- ton order immediately, 1t was uIi- derstood today. Viscount Craigavo1, the prime minister, said he believed Northern Ireland was automatically included in the order.
 we, as part of the United King dom, would in a matter of that kind fall into line with the rest of the country" he said. "No special leg islation will be required"
 It was thought that some legis- lation may be needed later to round of certain points applicable to Northern Ireland.
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$9O illegally, in addition to week. ly wages of about $20 from the Sco- will O..
 Pros. Meyers said the case was the first of this nature in Waterbury, and the state department urges that it be made an example. Leniency was urged in view of the fact that Santa Barbara is round- ing up the money from relatives offense of this nature. Penalty for and friends and that 1t is the first the next case of unemployment compensation violation will be heavy, Pros. Meyers said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27
Trial Jury Finds Itself Locked In| But Not Locked Up

The conspiracy trial jury is not a "locked up" jury in the sense of the pl.rase-but the jury was locked in" for a short time yesterday as the afternoon session of the trial was ready to start.
 Judge Inglis ordered a deputy sheriff to "call the jury" But the door had been closed, and apparently 8 spring lock snapped-to.
 The court sat quietly while Deputy Sheriff Christ Olsen, keeper of the key" was called from another section of the building to open the door.
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LOUIS BARBARA
 CASE POSTPONED

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 $15. At the end of two weeks. Pros. Meyer said, Santa Barbara was re- employed by the Scovill Co.,, but continued to return to the unen- ployment compensation office for next six weeks, receiving a total of
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less he got instructions he would enter in on the paying teller's sheet
 as merely an item of $6,000 on the sheet. So 1t was lost. The Water
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27

Greece will hold an international fair in Salonika in October.
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|"Five Cents,' Evidence In Million Dollar Trial
MASS MURDERS
 FOR INSURANCE

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LINOTYPIST MET
 TRAGIC DEATH

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-28

much at stake to take chances
like that"
Barringer smiled, and waved his
cigar.
You don't get me, Tom. Here's
my idea. We've agreed that Rick
Leslie is our most likely suspect.
l don't need to go over all the evil
dence we have that he's mixed up
in the deal somewhere. We all
know those details. So, with our
suspicious narrowed down to one
man. it should be fairly simple
for us to coax him into trapping
himself. It's SO obvious. that I'm
ashamed l didn't think of it be-
fore"
You mean you're going to make
it easy for him to get away with
some of our closely guarded plans
CONTINUED on Page IL, Column s.
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But there comes a time when the
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beings are found to have the
same weaknesses one finds In
oneself.
When this realization is finally
brought to light after marriage,
there may be a tremendous emo
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FOR CLUB MEMBERS

Dear Mrs. Post: / had substi-
tuted for any absent members of
bridge club for almost a year
when one of the regular members
moved out of town and then I was
invited to join the club and play
regularly, which have been doing
and enjoying very much. Now the
member who moved away is COM
ing back again and ! feel that
perhaps / should suggest giving up
my place to her VIII you please
tell me what you think about this :?
Answer: ! do not see any rea-
son in the world why you should
be expected to resign in her favor.
That is. when she left town, she
evidently resigned from the club.
1t is true that when a former MEM
Der puts her name up for re-
election she goes to the top of the
waiting list. But she enters the
club again with the status of a
new member. Her new election
date is entered in the club list
and she can not in any case ex-
pect to displace the persons who
have been appointed to any of the
offices she formerly filled.
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A El@GDG lQE G9lE[ $

OF Photographic equipment and a
dark room, with many copies of
movie stars pictures, he had found
nothing.
What does he do with all those
pictures Ellen asked curiously.
Hes in the business" the Of
ficer answered. II looked that up,
too, and it's apparently legitimate.
He has obtained the right from
the various studios to handle fan
mail in foreign countries, and
apparently does pretty good
business.
THE studios turn over all for
eign fan mail to him, he fills re-
quests for stars pictures, and
charges 10 cents to quarter
apiece for them. Makes a nice
living out of it, imagine"
Ellen had been called into Ray
burns office for a conference with
her immediate boss and Barringer.
nOt on IrAi
Washington is pretty hot on
my trail" Barringer admitted.
''They want to know why we
haven't been able to pin anything
on anyone in connection with the
theft of those plans. It's a cinch,
at that. that they didn't walk out
under their own power. Someone
took them, copied them. sold them
to someone else who somehow, got
them out of the country"
Its still a mystery to me"
Rayburn said, "how anyone could
get away with it without discovery.
Everything is checked every night.
No employ is permitted to leave
the place. until every plan is put
away
Barringer puffed his cigar in ST
lence for several minutes.
I've got an idea" he said, at
last Wen have to set a trap.
Whoever the guilty person is. he
has been put on his guard. He
must know that the plans are more
carefully watched than they were,
and he'll make no move until con-
ditions are relaxed again"
Won't Consent
'If you mean that We'll let plans
lie around loose" Rayburn spoke
up. '1'll not consent TO it. It's too
great a risk. Mr.. Hendon has too
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-28
Good Taste
Today
WHEN To WEAR THE
ENGAGEMENT RING
BY EMILY POST

Dear Mrs. Post: Last week I
got my engagement ring. 1t was
quite a lot sooner than I had ex-
pected to get il. We can not be
married until the first of next
year and I would rather have
my parents wait for while to
announce the engagement in the
papers. Does this mean that i
could not wear my ring before
they make the announcement
Answer. Certainly you may
wear your ring If you don't mind
having your friends know Of the
engagement as soon as they see
the ring. II you don't want them
to know just yet then the only way
to wear your ring would be on a
thin inconspicuous cord around
your neck or pinned out of sight
tbut securely to your slip or
brassiere.
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ment for eczema, athletes foot,
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