The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

Counsel for former City Controller Daniel J. Leary takes part in cross
 examination of Attorney Levy. not you had ever conversed with Hayes about yourself, your business connections or your doings.
 A. You mean MT. Browning or myself.
 c. Both of you.
 A. can only speak for myself. G. Didn't you go to see Mayor Hayes while attempting to affect light reduction in Waterbury in company with MT. Browning?
 A. No.
 o. At any time?
 A. No.
 o. Did you testify in any of your three appearances before the grand jury that you did?
 A. We never went to see MT. Hayes.
 o. I'm asking you now, whe- ther or not in any of your three appearances before the grand jury, you stated that you and MT. Brown ing had discussed with Mayor Hayes about the reduction fees in light ing in Waterbury.
 A. We talked with him several times but never went to see him. o. Where. did you see him?
 A. At the City Hall.
 o. So you make a distinction be- tween talking with him and actually seeing him?
 A. Occasionally we talked with Mayor Hayes.
 No Conversation
 O. You and Browning talked with Mayor Hayes concerning your reduction of rates in lighting in the City of Waterbury?
 A. I don't remember any such conversation.
 o. Did you testify before the grand jury in any of your three appearances that you went to keep an experimentation you and MT. Browning in each others company talked with Mayor Hayes concern ing your efforts to save the City of Waterbury money on lighting? A. That is true. o. That is correct, isn't it. Now on any of these appearances, did you meet Mayor Hayes-did you tell him that there was anything illegal about this contract with the City of Waterbury? A. No.
 o. Did you tell Mayor Hayes that you had an arrangement to di- vide money with anyone connected with the City of Waterbury in re- lation to this contract?
 A. No.
 o. At any time did you tell him that?
 A. No.
 o. And this afternoon, did you not say that MT. Kelly told you ir effect or substance that Mayor Hayes would take care of your in- come tax trouble, and that you would have no interference on that Is that right?
 A. Yes.
 Attorney Peck:
 o. Now, MT. Levy, you testified before the grand jury that the frs few days you told lot of storie! that weren't so. At any rate, tht point was that what you said or the latter day was false.
 A. On the first two adys, I tolc some truths, some untruths. some half truths.
 ,$15,000 Expenses
 o. You told the grand jury or the first or second day that you annual expenses were about $15,' 900 per year. True or false?
 A. False.
 0. You didn't spend as much a that year?
 A. No.
 @. You lived rather extravagant' ly at that?
 A. No.
 @. You were living in a high. priced apartment house in Nev Haven?
 A. I'm living in an apartmen house in New Haven. I don't knov whether it is high-priced or not.
 e. How much rent did you pa. at that time?
 A. $75 month.
 o. And you testified before tn, grand jury that you had safe il your house. Is that true?
 A. Yes.
 o. You also testified that yo, filed no income tax returns durinI the years 1930-l937. True, wasn' it? A. Yes.
 c. You testified that you ha, made various investments. Is tha true?
 A. Yes.
 o. And the list of investment you gave the grand jury were sub stantially correct? A. Yes.
 o. When MT. Hickey was wit you in New Haven on the afternoo , of March g, you went to your saf deposit box?
 A. Yes.
 e. It was fact that you had considerable sum of cash in tha box at that time?
 A. Yes. I had the money tha Kelly had given me. , o. That Kelly had given you?
 A. Yes. T O. Approximately how much di