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Show UHIQH HEADS FACE CHARGEJF MURDER Officers of Cloak and Suit-makers' Suit-makers' Organization on Trial. NEW YORK. Sept. 23. Seven men, officers of-ficers and committee men of the Cloak and Suitrnakers' union, were placed or. trial here today charged with murder in the first degree. They are accused of having procured the death of Abraham Liebovitz, a member of. the union during the garment makers' strike In 1'JlO. They were Indicted as the result of the alleged confession of a notorious E:ist Side gang leader, Benjamin Fein, who told the authorities he and his men were employed by the defendants to "beat up scabs." Liebovitz, it is alleged, incurred the enmity of the union by procuring work during the strike in a non-union, shop at Hunter. N. Y. He was lured back to New York. It is charged, and beaten to death in the headquarters of the union. The seven men who will stand trial the largest number at one trial In the history of the state, it Is said are Max Sign. an. Morris Stupnicker, Sol Metz. Julius Woclf. Max Singer, Isodore Ausph:: and Abraham Woidlnger. A fund of $250,000 Is said to have been raised by the United Hebrew Trades union for the defense of the men. It Is intimated that the defense win he that the charges were a "frame-up" by a rival union. |