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Show BRANDFJBERG IS H6MIJ COURT NEW YORK, March 2 Broughton Bandenberg, the magazine writer, took the stand today in his trial on a charge of forging a publisher's name 4o a $50 chock, and complained bitterly of the prosecution to which he said he had boen subjectod for five years. He had been arrested no less than 10 times, he said, since 190S, twice in connection with the alleged forgery of an article- by the late Grovor Cleveland, Cleve-land, once In St I.ouls on an abduction abduc-tion charge, once on the Chicago forgery forg-ery and six times of alimony proceedings proceed-ings by his former wife. lie blames the newspapers for much of his proso-cutlon. proso-cutlon. In explaining tho check incident in-cident ho said he received tho check through a man named Max Williams, who had sent to the publishers with some stories. He denied that he know it was a forgery until ho waa arrested. no |