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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-22

those checks and the hundreds of similar checks Brown admits were issued to others than the accused?"
 The Kingsley auditors did not start to work on the city books until the end of each year, the defense attorney pointed out-and they did not finish until Maych. By that time, he said, all financial transac- tions were concluded.
 The auditors duty, he said, is to present a true picture of the fi- nances, "and Brown admits that is the only duty"
 He continued with the statement that Brown admits that the Kings ley audits show a true financial pie ture as disclosed in the city records.
 Testimony of Frank Troy, a state witness, to the effect that when he worked on audits in the city hall, there was nothing of a suspicious nature, was repeated by Slade.
 "How does it affect the criminal responsibility of the defendants" he asked, unless there is evidence from which the jury might find that they knew of suspicious circumstances and with that knowledge permitted the condition to continue.
 No Evidence
 "But there is no such evidence" he continued as he referred to tes- timony that Murray had never been seen in Waterbury, and that Kings ley and Meaney had been here but one or two times.
 Brown told the jury that he had confidence in his assistants, whom he obtained through a New York employment agency, and did not know previously, the attorney said, He demanded to know why, if Brown should have confidence in such men, Kingsley should not have confidence in men employed by them over a period of years.
 Of all the audits prepared, he stated, no one dares to question them as to accuracy but Brown. And he does not question them be- cause they do not portray accurately the contents of the city records :. but because he started out to get in- formation to sustain the states al- legations of fraud"
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the supreme court said in that case. Note, "that a combination may be charged to prove either an unlawful act or q lawful act by criminal or unlawful means. It is not essential, however, by criminal ability that the acts contemplated should con- stitute e criminal offense which without the element of conspiracy is an offense independent Of the crime or unlawful act which is its purpose" Now, t is represented, if the acts contemplated are dishonest, fraudulent, immoral, and in that sense, illegal, a conspiracy will be indicted to the end by the means employed; by reason of the combina- ton, particularly dangerous to the public interest. particularly injuri- ous to some individual. Dangerous, said the court, to the public inter- est. Here is a conspiracy in all the cases that we read, where there has been Q case where the chief con- spirator was the mayor of the city, the lieutenant-governor of the state where in all the books do you find one more dangerous to the public interest than that.
 Cites Cases.
 I want to refer to one or two more cases. This is exactly the Murphy case, if your honor please. There the men in the Murphy case knew nothing of the acts of the others. but there was a concerted plan and purpose to take trucks of the high way, to bring them into the head quarters of the union, and then hold them until the owners of the trucks had signed up. Now, the diff ference in this case is only this, that whereas in the Murphy case, the trucks were being taken to the headquarters of the union and there held until they had been signed up by the different members of the union who knew nothing of what the others were doing, in this case they're taking from the treasury of the City of Waterbury millions of dollars over a period of years-eight of them in all eight years being the central figure, a beaten path in every conspiracy to the Waterbury Trust Company for Olsen to com plete the conspiracy. Well, your honor, MT. Seaman suggested that
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perhaps your honor ought to have little enlightenment from him on the question of auditing, but with re- spect to the particular case here and with respect to the theory of MT. Crawford that the famous English case-the great English xine q think it was Richard III) who shouted at one time My kingdom, my kingdom for a horse" Now. if 1 remember, the king was a cruel destroyer and destroyed all of his enemies, and finally, after they were all destroyed, he himself was de- stroyed by the man whose life he had been seeking for Q long, long time. I'll pursue that illustration no further. It is bad enough in the Tinsley case and MT. Murray went through that like a gentleman and the rest of them before they got through made this courtroom look like rendering plant. But there was one case that they either for- got or didn't find it. want to read to your honor one of the best cases that has not yet been called to your honor's attention. Now, MT. Crawford overlooked it. He
 made wide search of the law. Mir. Slade made a search of law and brought federal case after fed- eral case and read it to your honor. But I don't find that they gave the case of Maxwell Davis. Now, as I say, if counsel for defense didn't find that case, they can be forgiven. If they did find it was there, it was their duty to recite 1t to your honor. (Recites easel
 :. That is this case. They say there isn't an iota of evidence. After one attorney made a statement like that, it followed through. Several of them said there isn't an iota of evidence. don't know whether iota means there isn't any evidence or we've got to have a truckload of evidence. All that is necessary in a conspiracy case of this character is to show that we have much or little evidence that the accused participated in the common design.
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think I should be very careful not to be drawn into an argument of the merits of this case such as can properly be made to the jury. If I have followed the scope of the ar- guments presented here, that is pre- cisely what the defense have done. They haven't done 1t well; they haven't done it completely: and they haven't done 1t accurately. But all the while, with such inadequate presentations as they have made of the facts of this case to your honor as they see it and such facts as they desire to present to your honor's at- tention as they presented to you, they, at the same time, ask your honor to assume very grave re- accessibility in this case. I don't deny the power of the court by any means to grant 8 motion where there is enough evidence in case being tried before a jury, but I do say, your honor please, that the court should approach the assump- ton of a responsibility of that kind with very great care and very great caution.
 This has been 8 very long and tedious investigation made by the grand jury of eighteen men of standing in this county. Those eighteen men who made the recom- mendation in this court and the
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the city's treasury, and was told by Hayes that he should not question Leary, a "man of means"
 Hayes practically told him to mind his own business" cried AL corn. He also referred to Leary's statement to Purcell. that "they put us here-we have to take care of them-you're not a politician, you wouldn't understand"
 The Levy contract, Alcorn con- tinued, was a cover if ever there was g cover for launching 8 pre-con- ceived design to take money unlaw- fully from the city of Waterbury. Dinner of Mayor Hayes
 The dinner which Mayor Hayes rendered the senators at Waverly inn in 1895 was unlawful and de- ceitful," Alcorn said, land I think it was cheap as things go." He made pointed reference to the abuse heap ed on his states accountant, War; ren M. Brown.
 Mayor Hayes wanted the deficit bill passed, Alcorn cried, because he wanted ratification of all the claims and bills paid down to the time the records were destroyed. Mackenzie and Williamson worked at Hartford for it, he continued.
 Hayes, Leary. Herman J. Weisman and Minor met at Cheshire, during the grand jury investigation, he con- tinued. Weisman admitted on the stand that he was the close friend and personal advisor of Hayes.
 And WeiSman was called to New York by Leary, and while there he met with Leary and Borgnaes, the prosecutor claimed. And now Borgnaes is gone." On the way back from New York, Alcorn continued, Weisman met Ralph Coppetto and Coppetto had told Edward J. Hickey that he had not been out of the state.
 He said that the defense did not cross-examine Hickey because he was a ''buzz saw".
 Resumes Attack
 Attorney Shade argued for an hour and ten minutes this morning, talk ing up where he left off yesterday afternoon when he argued for 8 solid hour. His statements this morning were in the form of a con- tinued attack on the testimony of Warren M. Brown, who testified for the state as an expert accountant.
 Taking as the subject of his attack the statements of Brown with ref- erence to absence of pin point ma chine marks from checks issued to some of the defendants, Slade asked, "Why make a difference between
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EVERY MAN PRESENTED, TRIED GUILTY OF CHARGE"- -ALCORN
Attorney slade:-

Attorney Slade:-
 Brown admitted, if the court pleases, that in making this irves< tigation he didn't seek information except as tended to establish the charge of claimed fraud contained in the information. He was only concerned with that and for that reason eliminated other facts which tended to at least effect, if not to- tally destroy, the conclusion that he arrived at. Tn one instance when he was cornered he stated, There is an explanation but I can't give it offhai1d and in another instance when he was again cornered there is an explanation but dan't know what 1t is.o That is this expert in whom Mfr. Alcorn has such great confidence.
 This isn't the time to argue the facts except insofar as it IS applic- able to the question of law. Con- stantly and repeatedly it became quite cleaE that this man Brown built LID a case of cards that could not stand the test of cross-exam- nation. And your honor isn't going to submit that kind of "stuff" to the consideration of the jury and allow them to speculate and guess.
 believe, if the court pleases, that I have covered the matters that I wanted to call to your honor's at- tention and that our motion to dis miss this charge against Murray, Meanev and Kingsley will be sus- tained on the ground that there isn't any evidence at all that warrants this case against them for the jury's determination.
 MIR. ALCORN:
 If it may please the court, I
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special prosecutor for the state have been justified to follow, in what l think was right in following, what I think the grand jury was right to suggest; but 1t may be, as has been said by one of the leading counsel for the defense, that the special prosecutor may have after long years of experience what is called g prosecutors mind" If that be true, the prosecutors mind, in my opinion, is serving a right and jtlstifiable and a proper course. Oh, but it can't be possible if your honor please, that the eighteen men all of them have prosecutors minds" So when they have before them the facts, after a very thor ough investigation of these facts, and in returning that request to this court the prosecution of the issues against these various defendants unless they have a reasonable ground to believe it, nor would a special prosecutor with a "prosecu- tors mind" follow such course unless it were fully justified. And if there were ever a case where the course has been justified, it is this one. The evidence is overwhelm- ing! It is completel And it is true! Every man who has been presented here and tried is guilty of the of fense with which he is charged.
 Single Question
 Now, much has been said about the one single question of law as they claim is involved in this case, and they say it is only one. MT. Murray was frank enough to say that it was the only question in- volved, in discussing it, and the rest of them echoed what he said. MT. Murray said there were some twenty conspiracies here and the state is prosecuting only one. Well, I would be glad to concur with the gentle man so far as there may have been twenty crimes committed, but that doesn't justify the court in remov- ing from the province of the jury the crime with evidence offered to sustain 1t, that the one crime and the crime alleged in the information has been properly presented and properly approached.
 Parker Case
 And if they have discussed the law of conspiracy, wonder if your honor noticed how studiously they avoided the law of the state of Con- necticut. Hardly a man has had courage to mention the case and not until the last argument was made was the Parker case even men, tioned. So whatever they may have said, they avoided the law in Con- necticut. Your honor tried to make MT. Crawford say-to concede- when he was attacking the form of the information that it was gov erned by the Hartford case, but he wouldn't concede 1t. tried to have him answer your honor's question as it should have been answered ir regard to the O'Connell case as te
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Alex Henshaw plans to pilot an airplane alone 13,000 miles from London to Australia while lying down, and expects to complete the feat in less than two days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-22
Purcell An Honest Man

'Hes an honest man." Acorn said, I'd trust Purcell with my purse or uy life."
 He said that lt was enough for him." when Purcell went to Mayor Hayes to telI him about 9S.0o0 which heary alleeedly tailed 10 return to
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
LISTA DE coNTRIBUYEN-
TIES PARA Ell cOMITE PO-
PULAR DEMOCRATIc0 DE
SOCORRO A ESPANA
(Viene de la ga pGg.)

no, Jimmy Bruno, Eagle Bicicle-
terra Jose Alvarez, Avelino Fer
nandez, Evaristo Flores, AleJan
dro Sanchez, I'm Cocinero, Pr
juan, Manuel Sueiras, Roberto
Rodeiro.
Contribuyeron con 20 centa-
vos: Garcfa's Grocery.
Contribuyeron con Is centa-
vos Sam Ficarrotta Gro, Frank
Maurici, Amorelli Shoe Shop,
Abe Cafe, A. Pihero, Casino
Beauty Salon.
Contribuyeron con 10 centa-
vos: Style Hat Shop, Dollar Hat
Shop, Jimmy Barberia, Benton
Barberia, Sunrise Grocery, Gu
sumano Gro, Joe's Barberia,
Reeds, G.. Clement, Walker.
Contribuy6 con 5 dentavos :
Aronovitz.
Tampa Enero 9 de 1889.
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
10 QUE PUBLICA Gel
NAVARRO"

I'm peri6dico de los facciosos
espaholes, EEL Pensamiento Ma
varro'', publica 10 siguiente
"Los auxiliares mas eficaces de
este tercio de Abarzuza, fueron
los sacerdotes carlistas que en-
esta terra, gracias a Dios, eran
Ell 99%, y cada uno en- su pueblo
formaba las p~atrullas y grupos,
con sargentos, en- laces y haSta
camilleros, a los que Sc comuni-
caba, para cumplirlas con TODD
escrdpulo, las consignas y 6rde-
mes que hubiera".
Con esa clase de sacerdotes,
organizadores de patrullas fac
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
LOS RESFRIADOS
Or. Oliver I. Osborne. Medical Record New York

RE mientras hacia un frfo inten-
so Q habia una tormenta. Una co.
rriente de aire que sople, va ven
ga del exterior, va de un venti-
lador electrico, sobre parte de
un cuerpo humane, no es la me-
jor manera de equipar a un in
dividuo para que resista a los ca
tarros. Ell tener ell mismo mime
70 de ventanas abiertas en- Ell We
rano que en- ell invierno es otra
tonteria. Ell peligro de respirar
aire enrarecido y viciado, o de
aire que esta seco o demasiado
saturado de humedad, va esta
siendo reconocido hasta por los
profanos, por fortuna y bien Y
bien Sc advierte que hay una ten
dencia a tener aire mas saluda-
BILE, fresco y limpio. Sin embar-
go, como va Sc ha dejado dicho,
la tendencia va algo ahora en- o.
ira direction, en- ell sentido de
exageraci6n, al modo norteame-
ricano, ell tratamientO de aira
fresco. Nc hay la menor excusa
para que TN paciente que tenga
tuberculosis duerma tan expues-
to al aire que la nieve ca:ga So
bre la CANA y a wees ihasta So
bre la cara. Sc n~ecesita del senti
do com1n tanto en- este aspecto
como en- cualquier otro metodo
de tratar y prevenir enferme-
dades.
FL vestuario del infante, ell nj
no, ell joven y ell adulto, debe ser
apropiado. Algunos tienen exec
SO de ropaS; otro sno viSten las
suficientes y muchos hay que
Sc cubren demasiado una parte
del cuerpo Y descubren o desa-
brigan otras parties. Algunos a.
lardean de que visten la misma
ropa interior TODD ell ano, hasta
en- los climas mas duros. Esto
puede que sea 10 prudente, 20
sanitario y hasta 10 saludabie,
para ciertos i~ndividuos, Ipero
esta NAL como regla general. Els
especialmente nal para una per
soma que tenga teniencias a las
congestiones internas de cual-
quiera clase, ora sea Ell catarro,
ora sea la bronquitis; va sc ira
te de indigestiones 0 de trastor-
nos en- los rinoneS. La piel debe
G5nServarse siempre conforta-
blemente caliente y normal, es-
pecialmente en- eel tempo frio, y
no Sc debe impedir la transpira-
ci6n insensible. Por otra parte,
cualquier tipo de vestido que eau
Sc mucha Transportation y au-
mente la temperature del cuerpo
mas ALA de 10 normal, es deplo-
rable. Hay varios tratamientos
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
La obra incansable de Ia ~retaguardia de Tampa
RAzoN

QSf1LONN
ANA la justicia la Retaguar-
dia de Tampa y respeta todas las
ideas politicas y religiosas, con
la exception del fascisrno agre-
sor.
En- estos momentos, leal a sus
normas de genuina democracia,
la Retaguardia ayuda a conse-
guir que Sc levante Ell embargo
de armas a un gobierno legfti-
mo.
No Sc pide NADIA impossible nj
legal, Sc pide 10 que es razona-
Die y justo.
La nueva vergonzante inter-
oretaci6n del derecho internacio
nal, que coloca a un gobierno le-
yftimo en- ell mismo nivel de un
yrupo de rebeldes, debe ser des-
achada en- beneficio Ell pueblo es-
panol y de la humanidad.
Agredida por dos naciones ex-
tranjeras, por Italia y Alema-
MIA, Espana ha logrado formal
un ejercito modelo, invencible
81 Sc lie entregan los armament
tos necesarios para combatir.
Mientras los traidores, los e.
nemigos de la democracia y de ia
libertad de cultos, reciben de Ro
ma y Berlin centenares de aero
pianos, tanques, cafones y miles
de soldados, ell gobierno espanol
no puede comprar 10 que sus tro
pas r~equieren en- Estados Uni
dos, Francia, Inglaterra y otros
paises que fabrican armament
tos.
Ell embargo impuesto en- los
Estados Unidos Sc convirti6 en-
una poderosa ayuda para Fran
co, al igual que ell desprestigia-
do Comite de No-Intervenci6n.
Franco ha seguido "compran.
do" armamentos, por medic de
Hitler y Mussolini, en- los Esta.
dos Unidos Y en- otros lugares
pero al gobierno espahol, al re.
publicano, al que defiende su in.
dependencia, sc lie cerraron las
puertas de este pals, de Francis
ly de Inglaterra.
Hay que abrir las puertas, s
Sc quiere proceder con ~justicia
Los cat6licos reaccionarioI
quiza sc salgan con la suya, por
que no Sc puede negar su influeI
cha en- la politica pero vencien
do, evitando que ell embargo 81
levante, ayudaran a Franco, Hi
Ter y Mussolini en- contra del go
bierno ~legalmente electo por e
pueblo y atacado por la espalda
Falta un sentido clarO de ID
justicia a los que vienen luchan-
do por Ell mantenimiento del EN-.
barge.
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
PALABRAS DEL
PADRE LOBO

I'm saOerdote leal, ell padre
Lobo, ceiebra misas en- un orato-
rio de Madrid y alli verified tam
bien casamientos, bautiSmos y
ceremonies funebres.
Hace pOeos dias que Ell padre
Lobo ofreci6 una misa por Ell des
canso del notable escritor Juan
Perez Zuhiga, muerto cristiana-
mente.
"Yo-dice el quito sacerdOte
he cesadO de ejercer mi
ministerio.
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
CARTA DE IN
SACERDOT EESPANOL

SACERDOT EESPANOL
FL sacerdote Juan Vilar Cos.
ia, residente en- Barcelona, ha
dirfjido una carta al Observable
re Romano, 6rgano del Vatica-
no, de la cual copiamos los pa.
rrafos que siguen: "Hace mas
de un ano qre DOS cat6licos vas
cos refugiados en- Barcelona tie
men una capilla donde sc cele-
bran los servicios del quito y en-
dcnde los fieles cumplen con sug
deberes religiosos. 1Por a., pre-
guntareis, los cat6licos no vas
cos no tienen tambien sus tenn
plos? Las autoridades q. autori-
zan esta capilla no prohiben, sin
embargo, otras, a condici6n-co
mo es justo-que sean dirijidas
con lealtad Y discretion, que es
10 propio de los buenos cat6licos
y de los mobiles ciudadanos. Ell go
bierno de la RepGhlica habia qu
forbade ell abrir al quito las igle
sias de San Justo y de San Sc
vero".
"Esta authorization no ha po-
dido ser utilizada porque la pri-
mera autoridad ecclesiastical de
Barcelona ha amenazado con
sanciones a los sacerdotes que
celebrasen ell Quito.
lei gobierno, por orden mi
nisterial, ha decretado que min
gun soldado del ejercito repu-
blicano podra ser privado de los
auxilios de la religion. Frente a
esta actitud, las autoridades e.
clesiasticas, Than organizado ca.
pillas militares para los solda.
dos que 10 desean y 10 piden?
LAS 1nicas dificultades cue
existen para una reglamenta
ci6n de la question religiosa er
Espana republican, no PROVE
men del gobierno; sino de fuera
Y TODD clio para no comprome
terse ante Franco por 81 ganase
Estos calculos politicos y mate
riales, Ipueden en- realidad me
recer la bendici6n de Dios, la d
Cristo y la del Papa? Inf6rmes
listed mlsmo de la veracidad d
mis- palabras, y tendreis que co.
venir conmigo que la verdader
persecution religiosa, la que no.
dia impide y alicia ell retorno
la restauraci6n del quito p1blicC
proviene principalmente y cas-
pOdria decir Gnicamente, de 10
nu~estros".
Lean los cat6licos honrados
liberales esa carta del padr'
Juan Vilar Costa y mediten so
bre su contenido.
La gaceta., 1939-01-12
LA OBRA DEL WEST TAM
PA CIVIC CLUB

Ms de sesenta ninos de las es-
cuelas de West Tampa, "A. l..
Cuesta', "West Tampa Junior"
"MacFarlane Park" "MacFar-
lane Elementary" y Tampa
Bay Boulevard tienen su lunch
asegurado para toda la tempo
rada escolar, por ell esfuerzo lie
vado a cabo por Ell West Tampa
Civi Club del que es presidente
ell muy conocido w~estampeno Sr.
Antonio Acebo, figurando en- su
directiva Alfredo Aguiar, Mo-
desto Palacio, Ulises Enriquez y
Frank d. Marco.
No solamente Sc extendi6 a es
tel mportantisimo beneficio pa
"a los ninos pobres la obra del
West Tampa Civic Club, sino
que la cuenta pendiente en- ell
lunch room del colegio de Mac
Farlane Park fue abonada por
ell Club con los beneficios que Sc
organizaron.
Gracias al West Tampa Civic
Club los ninos de padres sin ira
bao, de familias necesitadas Y
aquellas en- que alguno de sus ca
bezas tiene la desgracia de care
Ger de salud, Sc ven atendidos
sin pasar por Ell sonrojo de yer
publicados sus nombres. Les bas
ia a los directories del Club sa-
her q. Sc encuentran en- desgra-
cha.
Interesados estan, sin embar-
go, segn nos inform6 ell Sr. Ace
DO a quien interrogamos sobre
ell particular, en- que investigue
su actuaci6n al frente de tan hu-
manitario Club los que tengan
interes en- informarse de sus ma
nejos.
Hasta la clausura de los cole
gios este aho, ALA para fines de
Mayo, estan a cubierto del ham,
bre los nihOs que protege ell Club
Cfvico de West Tampa, que tie
ne establecida su oficina en- ell
colegio West Tampa Junior
High, con apartado de correo
numero 1927.
Ninguna otra recolecta tuvo
necesidad de efectuar Ell club des
pues de la comida qre Ofrecio
para levantar fondos, habiendo
hecho hasta el presente con pun
tualidad sus pages a los lunch
rooms de los colegios.
Plausible la obra del West
Tampa Civic Club, en- favor de
la ninez y nos completeness en-
darla al pGblicO.
A. M.