The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-06
Clashes Between Defense's Witnesses,
 Special Prosecutor Feature Trial Today

|. The more important portions of today's testimony follow: Nathan s. Goldstein cross-exann. med by Alcorn: c. What did MT. Alderman tell you? A. came up with Mir. Alderman in the morning several times and I haven't any recollection of just what we discussed that morning. c. I'm asking you that morning if he didn't give you definite in- structions as to what you were to do? A. Definitely no.
 e. Not a word? A. He told me that he had job to do in the city of Waterbury but he did not tell me definitely what there was to do.
 c. Or who called him? A. No, sir.
 Q. When you got to Waterbury, where did you go?
 A. When first got to Waterbury went to Sherman dreinder Corp. I worked there little bit. C. You worked there all day the 1 15th?' A. Yes, sir.
 o. But you didn't do any work for the city of Waterbury that day2
 A. On that day, no sir, didn't.
 c. You went back with MT. AL derman that night?
 A. I did.
 c. Didn't he tell you what the work was that you were to do in Waterbury?
 A. He told me that he had some work to do in Waterbury. He had arranged during that day for me to start work.
 c. I asked you if he told you what work you were to do in Water- bury?
 A. Definitely no. c. Indefinitely, didn't he tell you?
 A. No. Outside of that he had arranged for me to do work in the city, he didn't tell me anything else.
 Q. So he didn't tell you on the night of the 18th?
 A. Definitey no.
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 e. (Referring to December 16). He didn't tell you that he had a job that they had to hurry through and was to be finished by Decem. Der SIP
 A. No, sir.
 c. He didn't tell you that there was an emergency job that had to be done, taking time from his work in New Londonp A. He never mentioned the word emergency and never said a word to me about that. c. On the morning of the 18th, did you have any talk with him2 A. Yes.
 c. About what you were to dop A. Oh, he told me that when we arrived in the city of Waterbury he would let me know just what steps to follow.
 e. You didn't know when you got to the city hall? A. No sir, not the course of the work. The first time I knew what work there was to be done was when he actually Showed me the material to work on.
 e. Did he tell you the morning of the 18th? A. When he took out the ma terial to work on and he told me then. That was the morning of the 18th.
 c. So that, on the morning of the 18th, you began on the war rants payable book and the checks, did you not? The cancelled checks was the first thing you did?
 A. True.
 c. Who helped you2
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 A. MT Alderman and MT. Cronan. At least, I say I believe. I don't know whether I started the 18th or the following day.
 c. Did you work all day on that?
 A. Yes, sir.
 e. You went home with MT. AL derman that night?
 A. That's true.
 @. Didn't he tell you that he had fifteen or seventeen thousand checks to work through or anything of that kind?
 A. No, sir.
 e. From then on did you work day to day on the checks?
 A. From then on, did not.
 e. So then MT. Dunn had taken the checks out of the trayp
 A. I don't know where MT. Dunn got the cheeks.
 @. He had an elastic around the bundle2
 A. That's true.
 e. He brought the checks down | to the sheriff's office where you were working? A. That's true. o. And where MT. Alderman was?
 A. That's true.