The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-10
Brown Deliberately Misled Alcorn Charges Slade

ant to determine the extent of cred ibility you can accord Brown.
 He started out to deliver the goods and he put 1t over on Bro- ther Alcorn by delivering what he believed to be the goods and he lead Alcorn to believe what he said was true"
 Slade said that nothing Brown said, from the accounting of the city books, was worthy of the slightest belief.
 No Indictment Concerning the extraordinary procedures of the investigation and trial, Slade gave the history of grand jury procedures prior to the current years. He aid that the grand jury in the current case filed no indictment be- cause its investigation was fol- lowed by the filing of an informa- ton, under extraordinary circum- stances, by a special states attor- ney.
 And somebody invented a secret oath, he continued, which was ad- ministered to witnesses who ap- peared before the grand jury, "seal- ing their lips and preventing de- fendants and their counsel from as- certaining what preceded the in- formation"
 Alcorn took advantage of every single pin point" said Slade, and he criticized attorneys for talking with witnesses. He placed the fear of God in the hearts of witnesses, and that is shown by the conduct of the janitor who rushed to a lawyer and to Acorn after a con- ference to which he was called by the defense attorneys.
 He trembled with fear" cried Slade, and rushed to Alcorn.
 And when the janitor told AL corn about the conference, Alcorn told him, I'm glad you told me-" intead of telling the man, as Judge Inglis told the jury that it was the rights of the defense attorneys to question witnesses.
 Smear Campaign Building up on the smear" alle- gations, attached to the naming by Alcorn and the grand jury of num- erous outstanding men for receiv- ing large sums of money, Slade cried, T wonder if the passing of former Mayor Thoms is not due to the smearing he received" MT. Thoms died last night.
 In addition, he added, If receiv- ing money is an evidence of con- spiracy, why weren't former Mayor Thoms and Guilfoile and others, who were familiar with the charter, named with these accused?"
 Slade concentrated in his argu- ments on Enoch Borgnaes, saying, We have nothing to hide, because the pencilled reports of Borgnaes are here. Borgnaes' transcripts are here, in his own handwriting, show ing his work on every audit he ever worked on."
 Figures don't lie, but figures oft en make liars," he said, repeating previous phrase in part.
 He referred to Alcorn as blow ing hot one minute and blowing cold the next. Right or wrong" he continued, concerning Alcorn, drunk or sober. he always finds @ way out"
 Slade said that when Kingsley was on the stand he openly accused Alcorn of telling him that You'll be sorry that Borgnaes is not here," or words to that effect. Alcorn has the grand jury minutes, Slade con- tinued, but he didn't attempt to re- but that testimony. Tt was too dangerous"
 Slade accused Brown of deliber- ately misleading Alcorn by making him believe Kingsley audits were illegal. He took one stand for Kingsley and Co. and another for himself, as is shown by his work in Hartford where he said he was not concerned with appropriations" cried Slade.
 Brown knows nothing about fig ures except when he makes up schedules, he continued.
 "Figures don't lie, but not infre- quently they disclose liars. His fig ures disclose Brown in his true col- ors," he continued.
 Health First
 Slade asked the jury who is ac- tually responsible for Borgnaes ab- sence. Borgnaes' wife told Murray he said, T have nothing to add to what I told Mir. Hickey. My hus- bands health comes first" Slade added that neither Kingsley Meaney nor Murray were respon. sible for the absence of Borgnaes.
 Slade said that when Borgnaes failed to answer the information, he was cut off the Kingsley payroll And Alcorn chided him for cutting sick man off the payroll, Slade continued.
 T hate to think what Alcorn would have said to you if Kingsley continued to pay Borgnaes after he failed to appear here, "Slade cried He might even say that the pay was an inducement to Borgnaes to stay away" he cried.
 Slade referred to the states con. demnation of the cash deficit bill and other legislation which wa. passed at the request of Waterbury officials by saying that Hugh M. Al. corn. Jr.. and Harold E. Mitchell assistant special prosecutors wers legislators in the general assembly and all members of the legislatur, have a moral responsibility for al bills.
 "Why isn't the legislature indict