The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-05
Commander
Deliberations In
 Trial Begin Aug. IS
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(Continued be rendered until the jury has re- turned verdict. After the jury dis poses of its verdict, Judge Inglis will pass sentence on Edward G.. Levy of New Haven and Harry Mackenzie of Bethel who have pleaded guilty and disposed of the case of Timothy Horgan who has pleaded nolo contendere.
 Should the jury's deliberations re- quire more than 8 day, Judge 1nglis may send them to @ local hotel for the night, and order deliberations continued on the subsequent day. Estimates have been made that the jury will require at least two days for deliberation.
 Following are excerpts from Att torney CasSdy's arguments to the jury yesterday. He defended in glowing terms the regulations of Carl Olsen and Frank Santalucia, and is expected to conclude Tuesday with defenses in the names of Cor poration Counsel O'Connor, James P. Healey and Donate Pietraroria.
 Quoting MT. Cassidy:-
 Yell "Thieves, Robbers"
 Such men are in every town, in every city, they are the ones who are yelling thieves and robbers, who have caused 27 men to be arrested and charged with 8 prison offense- 1t isn't the state of Connecticut but 1t is this group of hungry office seekers who request 8 verdict of. guilty from you so that they may ride into power on the crest of the wave that destroys these accused.
 Pretty cruel tactics, pretty cruel means to gain an end, but to them all is fair in love, war and politics Why one of the principal supports of the states case is the chairman of the Republican town committee, Warren Upson, who did his little bit to convict Dan Leary.
 Becomes "Tool'
 Too bad that such 8 fine fellow personally as is Warren Upson to lend himself as tool, the front man for the real author of this prosecution, who sends his puppets forward and pulls the strings while he hides behind his printing presses and slings the dirt in double head lines across his scandal sheets.
 T don't care how deep your poli- tical belief may be, or how far your Republicanism sways you in your decision of affairs of life, based on my knowledge of Connecticut juries and Connecticut ladies and Con- necticut men-yes, New Haven County ladies and gentlemen of the Republican party, am confident that you are not going to allow the fact that you are Republican influ- ence you to send these 19 accused to prison because in political belief they are Democrats.
 Not Political Question
 The question you are to decide is not 8 political one, although the special prosecutor and his assist ants, who have been active politi- cally, have automatically painted 8 political picture during the past seven months.
 contend that 1t Is inconceivable that you can reach such verdict because the state has utterly failed to prove its case. It's the easiest thing in the world to accuse men of crime, but quite another matter to prove the accusations beyond 8 reasonable doubt. It requires little to start the machinery of the law In motion, an ambitious prosecutor may furnish the spark that sets the wheels in motion, but the proof and establishment of facts, cold hard facts, by competent evidence that lead to but one conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt, to wit, guilty as charged, demands evidence, relia- ble, dispassionate, clear, convincing, unbiased, unprejudiced evidence. Neither suspicion nor suspicious circumstances are sufficient to rem der men guilty of crime.
 Never Got Approved
 The best proof that the accusa- tions here are unfounded is the fact the critics of the administra- ton of Frank Hayes and the other office holders whose jobs they have coveted have for 364 days in each year for the past 16 years yelled, and printed thieves and robbers, but on election day have invariably failed to receive the approval and the verdict of citizenry of this great Brass Center of the World. The 100000 residents of Waterbury can't be wrong.
 Why are these man hand-picked and charged with crime and the others not accused? The answer is simple Politics--Ladies and gen. tlemen-practical but dirty politics. Frankie Burns and Phil Coppeto, big fine popular fellows among their countrymen, are marked for de- struction 50 that never again will they have influence to obtain votes among their people. Dan Peters though living in neighboring Bristol is Q man successful in former years. A large acquaintance in Waterbury and influential with the older Itai- ian residents.
 No Favorites
 Ladies and Gentlemen, the crirni- nal law was not framed to play favorites, but on the states evidence it is apparent that favorites are be- ing played in this prosecution. Are you going to allow yourselves to be