Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-22 | Page 2 | Police Spirit Mayor Away From

Police Spirit Mayor Away From M WATERBURY con Conn Aug g. g 22 AP Mayor AP-Mayor Mayor Frank Prank ll Hay Bae 1 escorted through the rear door of the Waterbury courthouse ea J day to avoid meeting a restless throng that was gathered in inthe i ithe Fr the building after the year old bachelor chief executive wj Wa to 10 to 15 years in prison for conspiracy I The mayor who was Connecticut's Connecticut's cuts cut's lieutenant governor until last January spent over five hours Inthe in inthe inthe the courthouse after atter sentence had been pronounced on him and 22 others charged with plotting a million dollar fraud on the city treasury while his attorney arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged to post the bond that will insure his freedom until the state supreme court hears his appeal Boos and catcalls came from the fringe of a crowd estimated by police police police po po- po- po lice at as the mayors mayor's car turned into the street from the rear courthouse driveway a few minutes after midnight Attracted by the others in the throng surged forward but were checked i by a police pollee line Earlier the crowd had roared Bring him down as in an an automobile automobile automo automo- bile appeared to take fake two guilty- guilty pleading defendants to jail Nineteen men convicted with the mayor last Wednesday at the close of Connecticut's longest criminal trial sentenced ed by Judge Ernest ErnestA A. A Inglis to terms ranging from the 10 to 15 years imposed on Hayes and one other down to two months in jail for two men also filed notice notice no no- tice of appeal The Th other accused who received the same penalty as Hayes was Daniel J. J Leary ally of the mayor and city comptroller during the first of Hayes Hayes' five I f The mayors mayor's executive s seer Alderman Thomas Thornas P P. P K IJ Carl D. D Olsen young ba bank tive who resigned after hf his hiS' in May 1938 were sent c terms of from 7 to td 12 years They were described by th the during the eight and a halt half n long trial as the big fo r conspiracy through which J tf for eight years begIn in 1930 enriched themselves s t and fr fraudulent paw of city funds to lawyers tors accountants and oth jj frequently kicked back to f some of the mon