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Show PLOTTER HIMSELF IS PLOT'S VICTIM Thought Conspiracy Was to Collect Insurace. New York Young Benjamin Goldstein, Gold-stein, who was thrown into the water of Gravesend bay to drown, thought he was a conspirator", rather than a victim In a plot to collect $140,000 Insurance on his life, the police asserted. as-serted. When he set out from Coney Island Is-land in a rowboat with bis two companions com-panions who confessed, said the police, po-lice, to his murder, he thought he was taking part in a plot to circulate circu-late a report of tiis death while he went into biding; he did not know the report would be true, detectives i-aid they learned from 'Members of the young man's family. A middle-aged man described by the police as the puppet-master who worked the wires in the tragedy of death in which three weak young men were actors was grilled all day at police headquarters, but confessed nothing, anil, arraigned on a charge of murder, pleaded not guilty. Harry Grecnberg, seventeen. an. Irving liubinzahl, twenty-two, ljol ol whom have ambitions as pugilists, told the police they were the hirelings of Joseph I.efltowitz, forty-two, the beneficiary of the insurance policies, when they left their companion to drown. Hut each insisted t lie other actually pushed Goldstein from the boat. Both were arraigned for murder mur-der and pleaded not guilty. Lefkowitz, a broad-shouldered, muscular mus-cular man with active dark eyes, was calm throughout hours of questioning. |