Evening star., 1947-05-23
Marzani, Convicted
On Each Of II Counts,
To Ask New Trial

Carl A. Warrants defense
counsel is planning to ask for a
new trial.
The attorney, Charles E. Ford,
told reporters of his intention late
yesterday, a few minutes after q
District Court jury of six men and
six. women decided the 35-year-old
Arlington man lied to Government
examiners when he said he was not
a Communist.
The jurors deliberated for two
hours and 10 minutes before find
ing Marzani guilty on all IL counts
of the Governments indictment
charging him with wilfully making
false statements to Government
loyalty examiners.
A wartime employe of the Office
Of Strategic Services and the State
Department, Marzani stood very
straight, his mouth drawn in a
tight line, as the jury's colored
foreman announced the verdict
Marzani left the court Immediately
S2,500 Bail Continued. #
|, Justice Richmond B. Keech con-
tinued 81 500 bail for Marzani until
sentence is imposed. No date was
set for the sentencing.
Each count of the indictment
carries possible maximum pen
atty of 10 years Imprisonment and
$4,000 fine.
Unusual interest has attached
to the Marzani trial since it opened
May 70, not only because it has
been the first trial of this kind
but also because the Government
lis believed to have a number OF
similar cases pending, which might
have been dropped had the jury
exonerated Marzani yesterday.
In reaching its quick verdict, the
jury apparently was unaffected by
Mr.. Ford's final appeal to its nine
colored members. The attorney had
depicted Marzani in his closing ad-
dress as a prosecuted man.
afterwards.
II don't have to tell you what
persecution u.s." he said.
Justice Keech told the jury to
remember the Communist Party
was not on trial.
He cautioned that Marzani was
not being tried on charges Of having
been a Communist Party member
for Communist activities or for hav-
ing used the pseudonym of Tony
Whales.
"This court is not concerned with
Communist vices" he said.
"The simple issue Is whether the
defendant knowingly, wilfully aI1d
feloniously made false statements
to Government loyalty examiners.
Identified as Red Official.
Marzani had been pointed out by
a series of Government witnesses
during his trial, which began May
IL, as a Communist Party official
in New York City and as once hay
ing declared "the time rs ripe for
revolution in this country"
His false statements about Com
munist Affiliations, the Government
charged, were made in attempting
to keep his State Department job
He left the State Department last
December after Government in
vestigators checked into the evi-
dence brought out in his trial.
In arguing for Warrants acquittal
yesterday, Mr.. Ford seized on a
phrase Marzani Is said to have used
at an earlier hearing-that he was
tired of persecution.
Attacks Government Witnesses
you know what that means" the
defense attorney told the jurors.
"You have lived here. I don't have
to tell you what persecution is. But
there comes a time when you get
tired Of it"
Mr.. Ford heatedly attacked the
credibility of Government witnesses
who had testified against Marzani.
Marzani had steadfastly denied
any link to the Communist party,
although he admitted that his wife,
the former Edith Eisner, had been a
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