The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-04

\ witness before the grand jury and lRaat he did not expect any consiu- nratlon from the state for entering h plea of guilty and testifying'
 Lengthy reference was mMoe, Nurlng the closing moments oi triel yesterday, to the testimony which Few gave before the grand Jury concerning the savings in power bills he had effected for the city' The second day of his appearance ns d fury witness, he was asked to account for the $l27,000 which was paid him by the city, and which ne said before the jury he hao not Split with any person,
 Movie Investments
 statements made to the grand hury by Levy, concerning his invest ncnts of thousands of dollars, par kicularly in theaters and motion picture industries, were being read us court adjourned, and presumably will be continued on Tuesday, Levy said it took $l5000 annually Tor him to live, travel, etc.
 One point concerning Levy's testi- mony about investments, was a statement to the grand jury that he loaned $i7,500 in i9SS to the John eton wholesale Perfume Co., Of New Haven, operators of the Allied, Al- len and Green Front stores. A, Alien Johnston, a former Waterburian, IS president of the concern, according to Levy. The money has all been repaid, he said. The firm Is a client pf Levy's, My health was very bad said Lew, concerning the period he was before the grand Jury. "1 was dis tlrbed," he added.
 Levy said that he and his wife held interests in the Saybrook thea ter; New Milford theater; Colonial theater, Bridgeport and Capitol theater of Bridgeport.
 On stand All Week
 Possibility that Levy may be on the stand all next week looms Gross examination will be followed by redirect examination and re- cross examination,
 Highlights from the testimony Of Levy yesterday, mainly to do with the references to his statements before the grand jury most of which now he repudiates--are as follows:
 e, show you what purports to be an order for the payment Of money dated June 2, i932--treasurer of the city of Waterbury. payable nt the Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank, Waterbury, Conn, to the sum of $883i. Do you recog- nizs that and the endorsement on tho back of it? Answer, yes, do
 G. Do you recall that question 4. Yes.
 Q. And that you were given q payment that was made to you at tho Waterbury Trust Company by tho hand of MT. Olsen? Answer. Yes. Were you asked that question and %ae 1t so answeredp
 4 Yes
 Not One He Saw
 c show you what pufports to be q voucher for that same day. Do you recognize thatp A. This isn't tho voucher that l saw. Well, it is tho eity's copy Of the voucher, isn't at9 A. I don't know.
 Do you recall those two Ques. tions and were they so answered9 A. Only faintly.
 q. Well. 1t is the city's copy of the voucher. isn't it7 A. Yes, it seems to be. c. Can't you see that 1t is7 A. don't know c. It reclses the amount you reeeived2 A. Yes. And the date7 Yes.
 Further oD In reiernce to the eontraeD:
 c. Did you have paper handed 10 you for eSamination7 A. I don't remember.
 c. A contract bearing certain date. and yet you say there was no such contract. A. No sir.
 e. Were you asked that question hnd did you so answer?
 A. remember the answer.
 e. tReading from the minutes) {. And never was7 A. No, sir.
 e. Do you remember that qucs- tion and did you 90 answer?
 Not supcrhumaB
 A. No. MT. McDonough. if you are taking it for granted, I am not euperhuman. 1 cannot remember questions and answers and if I said yes to the questions that you are asking from the record, then 1 can say yes now.
 c. We were trying to get
 A. I don't disagree with the record at all. If it B in the record, ! must have said it the way you read c. MT. Alcorn then asked (this ls following in. iine): Then you are telling an untruth?
 A. Well, I'm not telling an un. truth.
 c. DO you recall being asked that question and did you so answer?
 4. I don't recall.
 e But if it is in the record
 A. Then must have said it that way.
 q. (Reading from the record) What record have you that you arc not telling an untruth?
 No Written Agreement
 "A I never had a written agree inent with the city Of Waterbury either on that date May 10, ie3i) pr ofi any other date.
 c. Were you asked that question and did you 50 answer?
 A. Yes.
 Q. And fl your testimony is un. true, then that document speaks an iiutruth, doesn't t? 4. can OE1Iy speak for myself, Mir. Aic0rn. c. Were you asked that question hfid did you co answer?
 A. Yes.
 o. what did you say about the klotument?
 A. I don't know but that t seems ko speak for itself.
 .. Speak for itself-and that re- sitting the contract bearing the