New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1922, Page 16

RYAN BOUND OVER T0SUPERIOR COLRT Judge Alling Finds Probable/ Cause in Robbery Case Judge Benjamin W probable cause in the cs of William Ryan, charged with burglary at the Dickinson's Drug Co,, and bound him over to the Reptemher term of the superfor court under bonds of $1,000 The case was one of the most in teresting and bitterly contested ones that has come hefore the local police court in some time Assistant Pro seouting Attorney Willlam M. Green- stein presented the state's case and the accused was defended by Judge Willlam F. Mangan Robbery 1s Discovered Joseph H. Mulligan was the first witness called on the stand He employed at the Dicki Drug Co as a pharmacist. He said that he had occasion to go to the drug store ahout 5 o'clock Sunday morning and when Te arrived there be was met by a po- liceman who told him that the side door was opened. As he was the one who had locked the place up the night. before, he said that he kr\m\'! immediately that there was something | Wrong He then went into the store in company with the policeman and a doctor, for whom he was getting a prescription, and found that the cash registers had been rifled He was unable to state the exact amount of money, but was positive that there was at least $5.40 which he himself had placed in a drawer the night be- fore He examined all the drawers in the cash register and found that no mon- ey had been left in them except a few pennies. He could not say on cross- examination that he knew that there was any money in them other than the $5.40, when he closed up the store. Alling found is $85 Reported Missing Johnson, another employe at Drug Co., stated that he arrived at the store about 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning. He said that he left the previous evening at 9 o'clock and could not state wheth- er there gras any money left in the drawers at closing time. He said that upon counting up, he found that $85 was missing. but he could not say that he knew that it was there when he left the store Detective Testifies Sergeant McCue stated that he was detailed on the case, and when he went to the drug store, he found a| window leading into the cellar toilet | broken, and a stick used to hold the window in place, torn from the wall enough to allow the window to he opened. He found footprints of sand, he sai He also found a door lead- ing into an alley with the bar remov- ed He stated Harry the Dickinson with State Po- liceman Arthur N. Rutherford, had arrested Ryan in Hartford and had brought him back to this cit Then in the presence of l.eon Cleary, one of his pals, State Policeman Arthur Rutherford and Sergeant Rival, Ryan stated that he had gone to the thea- ter with a lady friend on Saturday evening, was on Church street at 12 o'clock and caught the last car for Hartford. There he spent the night in the New Dom hotel and returned | to this city on Sunday Cleary stated in the detective bu- reau, the policeman said, that he had met Tyan in front of the Regal Hotel on Church street Saturday night and Ryan had asked him for 10 cents Cleary refused to give it to him, and Ryan said he had 84 in his pockets. | He said that Ryan had been in the| Dickinson Drug Co., store twice ear- lier in the evening. He stated that he had slept with Ryan in the Regal Hotel on Thursday and Friday eve- nings. He said that Ryan had told him that he thought he would rob the store on Triday and if not on Friday, on Saturday. He said that the two of them went down Main street by the Dickinson store Satur- day night and Ryan had asked him hovws he could bet into the store Cleary said that he showed him the window leading into the cellar. Ryan stated at first that he had $4 in his pockets when he went fo Hart- ford and he had paid $1.50 for his room, Sergeant MeCue said. He then that he, that on Monday, he paid $5 on|] account for a suit of clothes. Later he stated that he had paid $25 for a it of clothes. When asked where he got the money he saild “You| | s A. Pinkus E SIGHT SPECIALIST 300 MAIN ST. ‘PHONE 570 - —————— CROWLEY BROS. INC. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS |man know, I am a pretty good pool play er'" He sald that he had $28 saved up. When asked about Cleary's statement, he said “My word s as good as his' Cleary sald that he stayed with his sister on Saturday night, and it was later discovered that he had not toldsthe truth, it was tes- tified Cleary on Stand Leon Cleary was then put on the stand He stated that he was em. ployed as a soda clerk in Dickinson's drug store and that he knew Ryan well, He sald that he and Ryan roomed together in the Regal Hotel on Thursday night and while there, Ryan asked him {f there wasn't some thing that he could take from the store that Ryan could sell and turn into cash, Ryan stated that he want. ed him to take some cigars and fountain pens, Cleary sald, adding that he replied that he wouldn't take anything out of the store, and told Ryan that he would be a friend of his as long as he did not talk about stealing. He met Ryan. Friday eve- ning, and said that they went down by the store and Ryan asked him how he could get into the store. He show- Ryan the cellar window, and said Ryan told him that he would break in either Iriday or Saturday night He met Ryan again Saturday night in front of the Regal Hotel and Ryan asked him for 10 cents, wit- ness said, adding that he told Ryan that all he had was Kf cents and couldn’t lend him any money. He then said that Ryan felt of his pock- ets on Main street and found some more money on his person. Ryan then asked him for 50 cents, saying that he (Cleary) couldn’'t bluff him Cross Examination. Judge Mangan then started to send over a harrage of questions at Cleary and the latter appeared all mixed up hefore the conversation had pro- ceeded far. ‘He said that he had been arrested a short time ago for stealing an auto. He said this time that he met Ryan on Saturday night in front of the drug store and not in front of the Regal Hotel. He sald that the money which Ryan found in his pockets was not in bills, but in half dollars, He said that he had four half dollars in his pocket. He said that Ryan didn't search him When asked where he got the half dollars Cleary said first that his boss had glven him to him. When asked to explain what for, he said that he had given him $§ for a pair of shoes, but it was found that that was the week hefore. Judge Mangan again asked him where he got the half dollars, and Cleary said that he had been playing pill pool in the after- noon and had won them. Judge Mangan asked him to tell about the game. Cleary said that there were five playing in the game and the winner received a half dol- lar from each man. Judge Mangan asked him who paid for the game and he answered that the winner did Judge Mangan then asked him if he won the game Saturday and he said that he did, “How much did you win?" the judge asked. “our half dollars,” was the reply. “Who paid for the game?” came the question, and, “T did,” came the answer. "“Then, after you had won four half dollars and had paid for the game, you still had four half dollars left,” asked Judge Mangan Cleary sald that he did, then said that he did not, and was visibly flustered and stuttering. Judge Mangan then asked him if he worked on the soda counter and he said that he did. He asked him if he ever brought anything out of the store to give to Ryan Cleary gaid that he had not. He asked if Cleary had ever given anything to Ryan, and he said that he had not. Gave Girl Money. Ethel Moore of Linden street was then called to the stand. She stated that she went to the heater with Ryan on Saurday night and Ryan had given her two twenty dollar bills. He said that he had won them in a game. Judge Mangan then made a plea for his client for a discharge, saying that there had been no evidence in- troduced to show that Ryan guilty. He said that Cleary had lied on the stand at almost every tion, and stated that when had been taken by Detective geant McCue, he saw a good way out of it and put the blame on to Ryan Judge Alling deniled the motion, and finding probable cause, bound Ryan over to the next term of the superior court, fixing his bonds at $1,000 Assistant Prosecutor William M. Greenstein nolled the charge Miss was ques Cleary Ser- against Cleary Other Cases Willlam Scott and Howard Britney, both arrested vesterday by Police- John O'Brien, the former for failure to have a bell on his bicycle and the latter a light, were fined $2 without costs | The case of Howard charged with non-support was tinued for one week Wheeler, com {GERMANY FORCED TO | RETURN LIVESTOCK | Hundreds of Thousands of Animals Requisitioned During War Now Being Replaced. 267 Chapman Street TEL. 755-12 Estimates cheerfully given on all jobs LET US SERVE YOU ELECTRICALLY —THE— COWLES ELECTRIC CO. 392 STANLEY ST. 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There then remained 251,212 head of livestock still to be handed over The deMweries thus far made in- cluded 143,525 horses, 175,606 cattle, 209,231 sheep, 21,441 goate, and 246,- head of the govern- ' 14 ARE ORDERED T0 PAY DEATH PENALTY Russians May Be Pardoned if Plotting Geases Moscow, Aug. 8 (By Associated Press)—Fourteen of the 34 social revolutionists accused of high treason against the soviet government have been sentenced to death by a revolu- tionary tribunal, Among the con- demned are several of those whou turned informers. Three of the other defendants were acquitted and the remainder given prison sentences of fro mtwo to ten years. Held as Hostages, The death sentence against 12 of the first group of defendants later was uphel1 by the central executive com- mittee but an indefinite stay of execu- tion was ordered upon the condition that the soclal revolutionary party cease {ts counter-revolutionary activi- ties. Otherwise the sentenced leaders are liable to the court's judgment. Meanwhile all those sentenced to death or to various terms of imprison- ment are to be held in strict confine- ment. May Get Pardons. Regarding the {nformers, Semenoff and Lydia Konoplova and others of this group, the committee agreed to request the tribunal to grant pardons to all. Deflance of the court was shown by 22 of the social revolutionists during pronouncement of sentence, which came late last night ,these defendants refusing to stand up with the others, This group was ushered from the hall by armed soldiers and sentence was then pronounced. Three Women Included. Included in those under sentence of death are three women—Miss Eugene Rattner, who was the party treasurer; Helen Hanova and Lydia Konoplova, who in turning informer, declared she was chosen by the party to Kill Premier Lenine. Sensation in Court. Sensation followed upon sensation in the drama of the Russian revolu- tion which has been unfolded in the theatrical setting of the trial of 34 members of the socialist revolutionary yarty, accused of high treason against the Communist regime The praocecdings of the court were so different from the American and western European conceptions of jur- isprudence that, to the neutral ob- server, it seemed more of a thrilling melodrama than a serious trial In which human lives were at stake, A brother was arrayed against a sister, former political companions were Dbitterly pitted against each other; and the sharp divisions made by the Russian civil war between former friends were displayed day hy day in a colorful tableau set in a frame of bayonets. Openly announcing that the prole- tarian system of justice was 'llfl'nrr-m‘ from that of any other, the presiding| judges of the revolutionary tribunal permitted far wider latitude to hoth prosecution and defense than could be imagined by an American jurist. Prisoners were permitted to speak at will ,to interrupt witfiesses and to make long political addresses from the benches where they sat. day by day, guarded by khaki clad soldiers with Layonettetd rifles. At one time some of the prisoners arose and threatened | to withdraw from the trial Again they argued with the presiding judge that the hours of sitting were too long. “They feel that they are doomed; for several vears they have been im- trisoned and now, while they have the chance, they are going to talk politics,” one of the counsel for the defense maid In explaining the prison- ers attitude From the very begin- ning of the trial on June §, the prin- cipal defendants took the stand that they were responsible, not to the court ,but to history and to their own consclences ,and therenpon they began to carry on an unruly program that might well have shocked an Americ judge into having them put back their cells and ordering the trial go on without them. | Most of the court’'s rulings were | against the defendants. Because of this Emil Vandervekde, in to | Belgian, once a ministetr in the Belgian cabinet, and a representative at the trial of the Second, or Amsterdam TInternationale withdrew in disgust and went back home. He had been permitted to enter Russia as counsel for the de- fense. With him went Herr Lieh- knecht ,brother of Carl Liebknecht, | the "martyr Communist of Germany:" | Sports? Yeh, | tions Herr Rosenfeld and Herr Waters, the other foreign counsel sent in by the soclallst {nternationales to defend their political co-belfevers Representatives of the Third Com- munist * Internationale reached an agreement with the Amsterdam and Vienna, or the milder Internationales prior to the trlal by which foreign counsel were to be admitted into Rus- 818, and the defendants guaranteed against the death sentence In re- turn the other Internationales prom- Ised to call a congress for a ‘“united front" of all the Internationales agalust capitalism ‘This conference, the Communists contend, was to have been convoked during the Genoa con- ference This was not done, and the Russian representatives declared the agreement had been broken, placing the responsibilily on other Interna- tionales. Therefore, the TRusslans announced, they were not bound to refrain from sentencing the social revolutionists to death The open propaganda made against the soclalist Internationales in Mos- cow, and the repeated decisions of the court against the defense, aroused their fre more than has any event of the last 50 vears and embittered the feeling between the once united “reds" and “pinks."” Fach slde accused the cther of bad faith. An event unprecedented in the his- tory of courts the world over oc- curred June 20, the anniversary of the assassination of Commissioner Vola- darsky, one of the men whom the soclal revolutionists were accused of causing to be murdered On that day in Moscow thousands of workmen were ered to parade the streets and demonstrate, demanding the death of the defendants. Represen- tatives of the demonstrators, despite the ohjections of the Russian lawyers who remained in court to defend the prisonars, were permitted to ha- rangue the court, and the judges themselves thanked the mass of work- men for the ‘“Inspiration” they had given them Charges Preferred. The assistance given hy the Social Revolutionists to American, English and French troops at Archangel and in other expeditions; the plots against the lives of T.enine and Trotzky, and cther acts of alleged high treason were detailed in court in building up the case against the defendants. Most of the prisoners admitted they had worked against the Bolsheviki in the civil war, and some deflantly said they would continue to do so. But excepting a few who turned inform- ers, they all denied participation in assassinations. One of the most dramatic incidents in the long course of thrills was when Gregory Rattner, one of the defendants, was on the stand. His sister, Engene Rattner, also a prisoner and one of the principals among the accused, hysterically hurled interrup- at her brother, Alexander, de- manding what had hecome of their other brother, who had heen killed by the Reds while demonstrating in Mos- cow in favor of the Constituent As- sembly. Prisoners Are Divided. The prisoners were divided into three groups The first, numbering 14 persons, comprised principal members of the executive committee of the soclal revolutionist party. The second consisted of . small assemblage, de- fended by Communists themselves, who had turned informers and were now said to be adherents of the Soviet regime. The third group were mem- bers of the party accused of less serious offenses. The principal 14 defendants were: A. Gotz, chairman of the central committee of the social revolutionists and friend of Kerensky . Dimitri Donskol, agent of the com- mittee on military forces and chief of the “terrorists.” T.eo J. Gurstein, M. A. Leikatch, N N. 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