The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-30

The more important portions oi today's testimony given by Simon J Alderman under questioning by Atty. Crawford follow.
 e. MT. Alderman, in your income tax returns did you include for the years that you worked for the city of Waterbury all of the moneys which you received from the city?
 A. Every penny that was received by me from the city was included in the return of Alderman & She- patin.
 c. want to direct your attention specifically to one Sunday and to the one holiday and to the one night that you worked in this period of December 1887 and I first want to direct your attention to that Sunday What was the date?
 A. Sunday, December 19, 1887.
 o. Did Mir. Goldstein and MT Meyerson come with you from New Haven?
 A. They did.
 e. When you got to the city hall what did you do?
 A. When we got to the city hall we entered the city hall through the police dept. entrance which is adjacent to the general entrance of the city hall. The controllers of- flee was closed. called up MT Dunn and he said that he would be down in 8 few minutes. MT. Dunn came down and he opened the door of the controllers office. I told him that I would like to have the war rants payable book and checks that we had been working on. MT Dunn opened the vault and he showed us the warrants payable book in the vault and where the checks were in the tray in the vault We worked on them all day Sunday
 0. I want to direct your attent- ion to Christmas Day. Where did you work that day?
 A. I worked in Room 1 which is the bookkeeping department in the basement of the public welfare Later, we worked in the controllers office in the main floor.
 e. Will you tell the jury how you got admittance to the welfare department that day?
 A. I asked Miss Driscoll for the key several days before. spoke tc Mrs. verdon and told her that I was to make an audit of the department of public welfare. She told me that she would notify Miss Driscoll her. self and ask her to cooperate with me.
 o. will you tell the jury how you got admission to the controllers of- flee and also how you got access to the material that you worked on?
 A. After we had begun working in the welfare department. I went upstairs to the controllers office MT. Dunn had arranged to be in on Christmas morning. told him that I would like to have him come back in the afternoon because at that time I felt that we would be through with a certain portion of the work in the welfare department and we would begin checking up totals on the warrants payable sheets. He said that he would write @ note to the janitor to give me the key to the controllers office. told him that Miss Driscoll had given me the key of the welfare department and that the key might fit the of- flee of the controller. I told him that 1t would be superfluous for him to give me a note to the janitor. I did try the key and 1t did fit the office. Then lie suggested that in order to avoid his coming back he weuld give me the combination to the vault and he did give mo tho combination. About 2:30 in the af- ternoon. went upstairs with Mir Meyerson. l opened the door of the controllers office. I took olit the paper that pufported to be the cons bInatson and I tried to open the vault. I vas unsuccessful. I couldn't open the Gault and Mir. Meyerson couldn't open the vault. called