The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Asst. Prosecutor
 Quotes Shakespeare
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treasury of the taxpayers2" he de- manded.
 In the middle of his lengthy de- scription of the dinners which Hayes allegedly rendered the legislators in 1885 and 1897 at the expense of the city, Alcorn interrupted to say,
 "The bulk of the money they got was through splits, there's no ques- ton about it."
 In 1885, he said, there was Q din- ner at the Hartford Club to the senate, at cost of $352 to the city, which was paid on a check charged to the interest on floating debt, without approval of the Board of Finance.
 If 1t was regular, don't you think he should have gone before the Board of Finance and ask that 1t be paid. It was drawn on an irregu- lar check and never called to the attention of the Board of Finance.
 He recalled another check for $1 400 paid to Hayes at the same time, without an explanation.
 T point this out to show you the real stature of the man." he said -"The real makeup of the man."
 He recounted the checks for $452.45 and $473.10 paid to the Diorio res- taurant for dinners to senate con- mittees in 1887. Both were charged to the interest on floating debt.
 Burying Ground
 Interest on floating debt was ap- parently a convenient burying ground for a good many illegal pay ments," he said, flor thousands were paid in that manner"
 Continuing with descriptions of the attitude of Hayes in the early days of 1888, Alcorn continuously referred to his duties under the strong mayor charter. Yesterday he said that the strong mayor charter made Hayes a czar.
 In another reference to Hayes statement to Hickey about not being questioned twice, the young prose- cutor said, If ever there was a dec- laration of guilt, 1t was that when he made it to Hickey"
 Payments to Hayes, Kelly and Leary were comparatively small, &C., cording to records, Alcorn cried, but the bulk of the money they got was through splits, there's no ques- ton about it."
 Turning to the classics, young Alcorn brought in the name of King Richard III, one of the master pieces of Shakespeare.
 Quotes Shakespeare
 "Shakespeare's characterization of Richard III fits Frank Hayes better than anything I can say about him." he said to the jury.
 He described Shakespeare's char acter as the man who plotted, schemed and planned against even the members of his own family.
 "The mayor of the city who would participate in, countenance and abet things that were going on here, the expenditures of thousands of dollars, while some of the poor people and employees of the city, policemen, firemen and teachers and others, were taking 10 per cent wage cuts, and had to earn their money instead of taking 1t by splits, is just the type of character that Shakespeare pictured in Richard IT," said Alcorn.
 "It doesn't become him, nor does 1t become his counsel to try to shift | the blame, if they admit the blame, as they must admit the blame-on others, for the mayor had the strong mayor charter, in which he is charged with the conduct of the controllers office as he was with every other office"
 The young special prosecutor said that he did not know whether to view with disgust or pity the tes- timony of the members of the board of finance, who said that they didn't | know what was going on--that they | signed the warrants payable sheets merely as a formality.
 "The safeguards of honesty were never filled in," said Alcorn.
 Ends At 11:26
 When Alcorn concluded his argu- | ment at 11:26, after seven and one | half hours of oratory which started | yesterday morning, he asked the jury to find each and every one of the defendants guilty of participa- tion in one conspiracy-on the over- evidence presented by the state.
 He added that the degree of guilt should be determined by the court.
 Again the courtroom was crowded this morning as the second day of the arguments to the jury opened. At the very outset of the proceed ings, Alcorn called to the attention of the jury an argument in which he and Attorney Benjamin Slade yesterday over con- ference which John w. Meany was to have attended in Wa terbury, during December, 1888.
 He admitted that while he was wrong, he was also partial ly right, and that Slade was in the same category.
 Actually, Meany's work papers showed that he attended a confer ence here December 6 with Enoch Borgnaes, Hayes, Leary, and that he also attended conferences Decem- br 13, IA, 15. The papers said the conference concerned the Novem- Der audits.
 Opening his arguments concern Ing the series of conferences which Detective Hickey had with various of the accused, Alcorn started with Thomas J. Fleming, superintendent of streets.
 Records Burned
 Hickey testified that Fleming told lim that no records were kept at he city yards, while his own chief