PLANT TRliL OPENS; LEVY COMBATTING STATE'SJESTIMONY
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atol«n Fonl car from Freeport In hl« ponneMilon. What he called Wn co-op- nra'tlon with Plant <late6 from that day, when he wa.s arresietl for the Freeport Ford th«ft.
He xayn that when Plant qu^.^loned film on io how he got thiat cur he xald hr bought It from John flrlffln uf Port Wanhington, and h« naid that with Plant, George O. Hmith and Captain John Punhar they rode around the Inl¬ and mo.st of the night looking for the mythical Mr. Grlflln, who didn't exint, crXell at that time had a bill of aaU* prMiumably coming from GrlfTln. Uf udmlta today tliat that bill of nale Wan a NjgUfl one. Then he went on to tell ubout when he waa art-algnetl In Freept»rt on the charge, that Plant had told him before the trial thnt "ev¬ erything wan all right," and quoted Plant an Haying that he, t)'.Vell, did not need a lawj'er and he dex:>lare« that Plant atldreRned Judge Flint while " In the progreflfi of the trial Baying If rtlnmlMed hp thought O'lNell would help him to get the right man. TcllR of Htulx Car I>eal O'Mell tella of the deal with Hoff¬ man for the Htiitz car In whIcW they Implicated Plant, Ite nays that he was dlflmlflxed following the hearing before Judge Flint in Freeport and that Plant drove awny frnm the court room with Hoffman In the Stutz car Which later became Plant's, O'Nell then recited how the Slut'/, car was taken to Relnenweber'B restourant in NeW York <Tty by Hoffman, That he, O'Nell, took It from there aa n. part of the plan to have it ntolen and col¬ lect thc Influrance nnd that he. O'Neil, flnally delivered It to Plant In Lyn- brtKik In the preeenoe of Thomas Bar¬ butti, a former crhne investigator for Nactaau County,
He aaya the motor numlier had been changed by a man named ft^iggaretta l»_Brooklyn when they tlelivered the car tp Plant, He took Barbuttl's Buick, Barbutti look Plant's Chevro¬ let antl l"*lant ''got the Stutz car.
Then he went on to explain htiw he arranged with former Sheriff Harvey of Queens County for protection and that Hoffman told him lo jwiy Plant |3C a week. This wa.s for the pur¬ pose of receiving commis.sion so they might traffic In stolen automobilefl In Nassau County, Home payment.i he made to Aubrey Pettit and the tithers he made to Plant.
Later he told Plant he was only going to give him $25, Plant accept¬ ed that, he says. He also toll,s about having four cai-s In Charles Powell's harra at North Bellmore and that PI,Tiyt came there to boo them. Hc had with 111 mat that time other offl. cers including CJtmHtable Smllh antl i Kmll Morse tif HempHtead, After thoy saw the cars. Plant met O'Nell thnt night and told him to "get th^se cars out of there right away," and he said "I did get the mout that night,"
He also says that he and Hoffman oeeureil a stoli>n Biilok rimnboiit at Plant's request which they delivered to Plant.
Court then atljourned fnr^hoon re- Cetw.
The trial moves along much fa.ster than when Plant was first trietl.
Thc end of the first day saw the jury ctimpleted, the opening for the state presented and the jurors ready to be looked up for (he night and all of that before 5 o'cltjck.
Ju.stice Cropsey directed tluit Plant, who at the fli-st trial t-ame and went from the Court House at will except for the lime he waa actually In court, be confined In the jail until court wa.s con-' Tened again this morning.
He also directed that the Jurors be kept together and directed that they be taken to the Oarden City Hotel where they have tme whole aectlon to them- nelvea. They are In the custody of four court offlcera, Charlea Reinhardt, Jiweph Ring, Ernest tAUgdon and Charles Ran¬ som. They will not be out of sight of theae four men from now until the trlaf^ ends except when they sleep and they are not permittetl to talk to anyone ex¬ cept by telephone and then only In the proMnr^ of an officer.
Names of Jurora The jurttrs are: Walter E, Stephen- eon, Rooaevelt; Charlea F. Bgan, Free¬ iiort; Irving D. 'Tunison, Ocean Side; William R. Cochran, Lynbrook; W'llllam J. Drlacoll, Of>ean Side; Loula C. Allen, Loeuat 'Valley: Averall M. Marlow, Fi-ee¬ port; Frank R. Rider, Oyster Buv; John W, Walters, Syossett; Frederick C. Van Noatrand, Freeport; Elbert T. H.-^ag land, BJaat Norwich, and C- Nelson Hlcka, Rockrvllle Centre,
Moat of yeaterday was taken up In the aelectlon of the jury. Both t)lstrict Attorney Weeks and Attorney Levy, of tha deferjic, uaed great care in ques¬ tioning the men who will alt tn Judg ment on Plant and because of. that both of tfaem had exhausted their challenges before the last, man waa secured.
Onca the Jury was had Mr. Levy mov «kI to dlamlss the Indictment charging the defentlant with criminally re ¦ v lug atolen gixxte on tht« ground that the Indictment waa not sustained by the facts.
OMriet a^ommr Outlines Caa« District Attorney ;Weeka In Ifvls open¬ ing to the Jury rccUed that the charge againat Plant grew out of the olleged receipt of a atolen Bulok car which the state claims waa stolen at the behest of iPlant and dtllvered to him by Matthew J. O'Nsill and William Hoffman, known
ELEVEN ARRESTED |SUMM\RY OF LABOR ON ASSAULT CHARGE siTUATlON|roDAY
Mineola, May 3.—Ttfraxutm bf wn.<» a Poink and lmpponr.t1 to be In the way and the only available one they could gnd, Peter .Benson says ho was set upon by "Paf'^Whltc and Keht)e of Manhasaet, Sunday night .ind waa liailly battered up. ^
I^eonnrd Thorn, sent by Sheriff Charles W. flmllh with Constable .Steve Walker, arjiestitl White, Ke^hoe, Mike Blake, Pal Blake, Clarence Moscher,
New Tork—EHtimnled Ivtween, 15,000 and '30,000 men are Idle in the natlonni marine strike, Ciinse; J3 per cent wag't> reduction.
Irtdlannnolir!, Ind. — Appmximntely
10,000 union jol) firlnters idfo in nation¬ al strike. Men ileniand 44-hour week.
Philndelphia.- -Tbouaand.s of builiimg traile.s workeiti on .stiike. Cnn,-ie: 21 per cent Wage rtduetion.
Albany. N. 'V'.—ftetween ROOO nnd 12.000 |/ulp and print pai»er workers on
actlirtfl tha Oooda. I
Commercial Traveler—"My Uyra te
yon. my dear Loutaa, czceeda pay.
Uilog that can be offered In that pat^ I
ticular Ifher—Strix, Stockbolm. j
Anathar aiam at Ar^:.
A family witb ao artistic ttiimw
ament Isn't really as aradi ef an a4>
dition to a aelgbbortieed aa one awpf
Ing a .uteplatkler.—Atcbiton Glob*,
Ifa aa Fiekia aa a Woman.
How can ve expect the forecast at'
flclals to tell what tbe weather will
do when tbe weather Itself doea aot j
know?—Boston Herald. '
Tha Trainlnf Oclwal. Neccsslty la a good ttaeber, bnt tbey have profited by bar t^a^ai^^f
least who know btr moac
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If. Nolan, T. Mcfilrr. Howard, Nelson,! strike in .New Kngl.ind. New York,
.Tohn Kelly nil tif Port 'Washington; William O'f/Miry and Jock Sherrard of Roslyn, nil of whom were held by Justice of the Pence Le'Cleu.se for ex¬ amination tonight.
The are looke<> up m the county jnll. This crowd or part of them attetided a Polak dance Suntlay night In Man- luisset. The wine flowtHi freely nnd eventually there w.'is a light between Knglish Bpt^klng and Iho Pohiks, There wiis some badly liatteretl heiuls.
White and Kehoeo arc ullegoil to have left the plaee to go for reinforcement. They went to Port 'Washington and got a gang of recruits. On their re¬ turn the.v found Potor Benson iiiid ho i».alil they ventetl their sjiite on him althongh he was law iibiding at ihc tlmf. they heat him up.
And He Wou.'d Not Smilo.
"Thnt hc:id wiiitcr would smile and take your last dollar,"
"Probably not. Hc wouldn't accept at little Bfl a dollar iimler auy clrcuui. Stances."
Minne.st^tij nnd Conadlan mlllK: #C«umo: Wage reduction.s.
Cleveland. O. -Between 25,000 and ,'{0,000 buililing tiailes workers on .strike. Cause: 20 per cent wage cut.
New York—Stri>ot cleaners thronten to strike hecniise of di.sniiss.'ii of :ino men.
Pittsburgh—Fully 1.1.000 building tr.ides workorw iiilo. No strike or lock out, but labor co.sl.s too high for build«"r.s.
Young.stown - - Approximately lOno workers in building tr.ulos strike. Cause: 20 per eent wage reduction.
Wheeling, W. \',a.—.Nearly 3000 hiiilil- Ing trades eniiiloyeea strike wben em- ployei-s nnnoiinco 20 per cent W!ige re- (luclion.
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NOTICK TO RinnRRH
proiHiiuilH t(ir Ihc laylna
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to his Intimates as "Red."
O'Neill Is now a convict, serving seven yejirs In Sing Hing PrKson for his part
n the traffic in sttilen cars in tliis ooun¬ ty. Iioffman is iiiulor Indictment for his part in siicti crimes which he freely aUmilM.
-Mr, Weeks s.Tld that ho would show Ihiit Plant was connected with O'.Velll and lloflman and that tli^ twi last paid Plant for what lhey thought wns "pro tection" from arrest and the permission to Illy their nnlawfiU buslnesa in 'autos wil hout molestation from tho authori¬ ties, principally Pliinl, who was then county detective and tho chief peace of¬ ficer In the county for feireting out crime.
He also .said that the fyjite Wdiild show that Pliint had told ()'.\(mI1, at ;i time when tho latter wa.s under arros;, that he need not fe.ir, that ho would be iliHcharged. O'Neill was arijiigned lio- foro .ludge Flint ,ind was discharged on the state claims. Plant's re|irn,soiita- lioiis to thc jiii|ge.
That (lii.Vi.<Vlaiit is allegoil to have lunched with Hoffman nnd others and ihoii m,ide a deal to got Hoffman's Stutz car, Hoffman wanted $:'>00 and Plant'^s Chevrolet car in trade. Plant demurred! but when Hoffman said his Stutz was | insured for $1,S00 Plant, the sl;ite al-j legos, suggested that the Stutz car b(.; taken, the insurance collected ;in(l tho rur turned over to him. '
Air. Weeks declares the Hlato will show this was done, that tho car was driven to ! ItelHonWeber's vostaurant in New York' that O'Neill "stole" it as urranged and ' that il was turned ovor to i'iant. .%rr,; Weeks iilso .said that Iloft'man wat) to J got a license for ic in Plant's name an<: that he did this on Septemlier 17 al though the car Wtis not "stolen Bolsonweber'.s until September 19, 191i). iM
The District Atformy also said that the stiito would show that when f)'Neili had certain oars hidden in the I'owell lairn that Plant told him to move them and that the move was mado that night.
The state's prcseculor said further that he would show Plant wanted a Buick car, that he demanded it of O'Neill and Hoffman, that the two liisl .said it would tako time but llnally thoy got It, that it W.IS stolen from Major liawes In Newkirk avenue, Brooklyn, that Hoffman changed the mottir num¬ ber frtim 464,S!I2 to 4fi4,822 and that the car was delivered to Plant m Lynbrook. To Prove .\uto Was Stolen
"We will prove' It was Hawes' car by the secret assembly numhe'rs on olher parts of the <-ar," aaid Mr. Weeks" and we have It right here now and tho num- liers are changed," hc added.
The prosecutor also said that O'Neill was arrested at the Instance of Thomas Barbutti, onee a count.v investigator, that he was brought from the Bronx by Plant and, thc state alleges, on tho way to Mineola Plant told O'Neill to plead guilty to the charge of receiving stolen autos, lake his medicine and go to jail.
"Ite did that," said District Attorney Weeks, "and in two hours after he was given seven years/ In pri.son he waa on his way to Sing Sing."
"This mo^ who did the dirty work for his crowd and who paitl the tilrty money went to Sing Sing with 40 cents In his pt>cket," cenduded tho District Attor¬ ney. '
Attorney Levy a.sked Justice Cropsey to Instruct the Jurors regardiiig the statementa of the District Attorney and the Court said:
"You have heard the opening atldreas, lie la the public prosecutor, a constitu¬ tional offlcer, Il Is his duty to open the case and he may aay what he expects to prove. You know hla .statements are not proof just a^ you know that a dp- fendant's counsel, if it becnmea neces¬ sary for him tQ.make one. Is not iirtxir. fSach prescivts only whal lhey hope to prova. Do not take ll aa prtwf but you may believe il aa It Is proved and con¬ sider It then."
Justice Cropsey announced for the purijoae ot flnlahing the trial aa oarly aa posslMe he a'ould bold lonner Sf>a. sitms of tH>urt than usually and that court would r^nvene at 9:20 dally.
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