The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-11

modate him, MT. Crawford didn't ask him. Neither did the states att torney ant you may well conclude hat if it was anything that reflect ed on Frank Hays, with the mouth of that Sadist, Purcell, he would have spat it out as fast as he could spit If he could have covered my client with slime, but he didn't.
 And I sat here when MT. Meade Alcorn gave his opening remarks in behalf of the prosecution and not even MT. Meade Alcorn said that Purcell went back to Mayor Hayes the second time and made a com plaint to him about the conduct of the controllers office. You can search this recor;' until you're blind and you won't find that that is a fact. You won't find in this record anything that Purcell complained of, concerning irregularities in the con- troller's office. No. It seems to me lay no restrictions on the conduct of the state'c attorney because l told you I don't call my opponent names, but it seems to me, ladies and gen. tlemen of the jury, that here a mans liberty, reputation, and I say, his life, the life of his loved ones and everything that .s near and dear to them, when the states attorney has that mans future in charge, l say to you, ladies and gentlemen, that he ought to be as careful as If he were in the presence of God Al- mighty Himself.
 Owed Loyalty
 Purcell, the man that owed loy- atty to Mayor Hayes during those entire eight years when he was se- creting those sheets. Did he go to Mayor Hayes ' nd tell him about 1t? No. I don't know what his purpose was. If those sheets had any sig nificance, if they have the slightest significance, I don't know what his purpose was. And perhaps 1t would be unfair to suggest 1t.
 I don't know whether or not he was holdin;, t. sheets to black mail wealthy man like Dan Leary I don't know and I'm not going to say 50. But don't you remember and the assistant states attorney made mention of it in his opening remarks that Purcell said that Leary after the adm .istration went out went to him and tried to force a $1O,000 job on him.
 Is that the truth in this case? Did Purcell perhaps try to black mail a $10,000 job out of Dan Leary?
 And in all fairness and justice would you take MT. Goss's and MT Judges and MT. Tripp's judgment about Frank Hayes in this case or would you take MT. Purcells?
 Ladies and gentlemen, is it asking you too much when presume only to beg you to take the word of out standing citizens without whose ser vices the industrial life here would be dead against MT. Purcell's?
 Payments To Lawyers
 Now, you heard a lot about pay ments to lawyers in this case. And you have heard them allocated by MT. Brown as stolen. That is the only inference that I can draw. It is put into a $250,000 or some such sum as money stolen from the city of Wa terbury. Now, of course, if the cor. poration counsel and the mayor stole that money from the city of Water bury and gave it to the lawyers, al the lawyers are thieves too, aren' they? If Mayor Hayes and Corpora ton Counsel Charles O'Conner wer corrupt, so were the lawyers tha received the money corrupt and a you heard it said, sauce for the goos' is sauce for the gander, but as l has been said before in this case you don't see any of the lawyers il any of the ignominious seats tha' these accused occupy, do you?
 Now, I don't know why should spend any considerable time on Levy and his lighting contract. l think yesterday MT. McDonough did ample justice to him. I applaud what MT McDonough said about him and receive them as my sentiments.
 Now, you heard it repeated hert and it's been repeated by some of tht lawyers, but you have heard abou Borgnaes and Borgnaes and Borg naes, and you have heard that namt constantly dangled about in thi courtroom. Where is Borgnaesi Where was he? Where is he goinl to be? That is only done for ont purpose in this case, to lead you tt believe that Frank Hayes who nevel had solitary thing to do witt Borgnaes spirited him out of thi country, making him part of thu conspiracy.
 What evidence is there in thii case that Borgnaes ever did an, solitary piece of work for Franl Hayes. It's true that the mayor as signed the order for the employmen : of accountants; he had to do 1t un' der the city charter, but what con nection did he have with Borgnaesi
 Now, Mr. Alcorn, I've got to make clear, is as great courtroom genera as I have ever seen. 1Ie can write al fine a scenario as any artist I have ever seen, and he knows how to sus' tain interest. He makes mystery ol thing; he leaves something to you imagination and then he asks vol 8 question and he asks, Where is BroWning?" leaving the inference that Frank Hayes must have taker Borgnaes out of his jurisdiction You know that if Hickey wanted Borgnaes he would have gotten him and you know very well that j Hickey wanted Borgnaes here, h' would have subpoenaed him anc there wasn't a single gesture made Instead he went to New York to thu accountants to make them do thu work of the super-sleuth Ed Hickey
 Browning's Status
 Ladies and gentlemen, the day when Levy was testifying here il this court that he had divided thu money that was paid to him ane Browning, the day that Browning came down, is there any reason d that is true that there was divi' sion of money or split of money)-t there any reason that Browning