The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-22

the man who, in the last days of days when the administration was to be changed, was present when there were abstracted some of the records of the city, great many sheets ot the books which have been revealed in this conspiracy. He was the man who was present when the warrants payable books of 1886 and 1887 were lost. He was the man who was pres ent when the checks for 1937-near- ly 5000 of them-were taken out and lost. Most of all-perhaps greatest of all-he was the man who was experimenting the burning of the records of the city early in Decem- Der, 1887.
 Coppeto, Burns
 Coppeto, your honor will remem- Der, is the man who owned the rep utation of being contractor; got from the city, through the manipu- lation of the first four, some SSO2,00C in that short space of seven years and of that vast sum at least half million was drawn in cash from Ol- sens bank. What became of it, we don't know, except we are sure that it went into the hands of those who profited, it went into the pockets of those who prof1ted.
 Santalucia is in the same position "a man with trucks, one ton and a half Ford dump, drew from the city more than $3o0000 on the face of the evidence, but $70,000 of it going through bank account.
 Johnston was the New Yorker. He was Leary's man. He was the president of Leary's Sterilizing company. He took out of the City of Waterbury in those years, as l recall it, in excess of $211,000 and kicked back three-fourths of it as regularly as he received it.
 And it is Healy, another con- tractor, who entered the picture in 1884. He had a bank account in an- other bank in the city than the Wa terbury Trust Company. Yet, he re- ceived checks from the city exceed ing in 1895, $7,000 and cashed his checks at the Waterbury Trust Company.
 Corporation Counsel
 And then there is O'Connor who is corporation counsel, the appointee of the mayor, who did the mayors bidding. It was O'Conner who drew the contract that launched this conspiracy. It was OConner who violated more than one section of the charter, but particularly the section of the charter relating to the employment of lawyers. It was he who abdicated, who surrendered to the mayor, the privilege of en- listing the services of lawyers in this city and received at total cost to the city in excess of $3OO,- 900.
 Now, if your honor please, men of that type I make some allow ances for in the suggestion that I am about to make to your honor. I think in the suggestions I do make I'm reasonable and I'm human in all my recommendations and in this case, if your honor please, the case of these men, my feeling is that they should be fined the maxi mum sum under the statute of $500 and confined in the Connecticut states prison for the term of not less than five or not more than eight years.
 (Kingsley, Meany, Alderman. Peters, Minor, Purdie and Fleming)
 With respect to Kingsley and Meany, may I suggest to your honor that for the years that this con- spiracy has been in operation, King sley and Meany had supervision of the operation of everything that was being done, and I call your hnnor's particular attention that the State had papers and the testi- mony of MT. Purcell and the state ment made to him by Borgnaes who was MT. Kingsleys employee, that he had called attention to Kingsley to irregularities, and that the re- ports were in, and there were ir- regularities, there were false entries, there were false statements and in general, this conspiracy was covered by accountants. And the conspiracy could not h w existed were 1t not for the accountants.
 Kingsley Meany
 I call your honor's further att tention with respect to Kingsley and Meany. For three years, King sley assigned Borgnaes to the mayor and your honor knows the testimony with respect to Borgnaes.