$100,000 Union Funds Stolen Due to Laxity, Conspiracy Trial Told Lax money practices enabled con-i spirators to steal $100,000 from locals of the International Hod Carriers’ Union (AFL), the Govern ment contends. The District Court trial of six; men charged with the conspiracy is in recess today. Clyde B, Stovall, certified public accountant, employed by the union but being used as a Government; witness, is scheduled to return to: the witness stand Monday. Leo A. Rover, special asistant, to the Attorney General, placed in evidence yesterday testimony to show mising financial records of the Building Committee and Local 74 of the union here. The evidence showed bank checks and stubs were missing as well as other records of the Building Committee. Holds Records Not Approved. Mr. Stovall said there is no evi-! dence that all Executive Board meeting minutes were read and ap proved by the union membership. The Government contends $15,000, listed on the records as going to buy additional union property, actually was used for a party to celebrate a mortgage burning. Larry Kelly, missing defendant, bought six War Bonds for the union for $4,400 in September, 1942, but when Mr. Stovall examined the rec-, ords, only three were accounted for, it was testified. The accountant said that in April, 1943, the de fendant George Morgan, former Jnancial treasurer of Local 74. brought in three bonds, dated April 1, 1943. Defense Counsel Austin F. Can field said, after court adjourned, the defense will try to show that Kelly used the three missing bonds for his own use but that, on being con fronted by the international repre sentative, Herbert Rivers, took funds from the City Bank to buy three new bonds. These were taken by Morgan to Mr. Stovall, the lawyer said. Mr. Rover also introduced testi mony to show Kelly used $3,600 to make up a shortage in the union's civilian defense account here. Say Fund Misuse Permitted. While Kelly's name is most fre quently linked with finances, Mr. Rover said the Government's posi tion is Kelly, Morgan and the de fendants Joseph Speed, Evans H. Hamilton and George W. Plummer were all members of the Building Committee and permitted the money to be stolen. With Mr. Canfield for the defense are Attorneys Charles E. Ford and Kenneth D. Wood. Mr. Rover is being assisted by Attorneys John B. O'Brien, jr., and Frank Cunningham. Also on trial are Faust Moreschi, former secretary-treasurer of the District Council and now interna tional representative, and Isaac Weiner of Leonardtown, Md., real estate, insurance man and movie theater operator and one-time mem ber of Local 832 of Southern Mary land. Theft Suspect Arrested After 'Perfect' Description A pickpocket victim's description of the man who jostled him on a treetcar was "so perfeect," accord ing to police, that the suspect today laces Municipal Court action on a theft charge. Charged with the theft was Rob ert Earl Williams, 62. colored, of the 1100 block of New Jersey avenue S.E. Police said Williams had a record of arrests and convictions for .similar offenses. According to police. Lacey T. Adams. 55, of 1146 Seventeenth street N.E.. reported he was jostled in a streetcar on his way to the baseball game at. Griffith Stadium last Tuesday. The jostling cost him a wallet and $57. he reported. Mr. Adams gave police a detailed description of his fellow rider. De active Sergts. E P. Jefferson and W. R. Coffey said the description vas so perfect that it fitted a "well-known pickpocket" in detail.' The detectives telephoned Wil liams and asked him to pay them a call at headquarters. Last night. Williams was put into a line-tip with four other men. Sergt. Jeffer- j son said Adams promptly identified him. Williams denied taking the wallet. Baby Recovering From Burns Kathleen Marie Szwed, 2-month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph D. Szwed, 3984 Blaine street N.E., was reported in fair condition at Providence Hospital after being burned on the face and right arm yesterday at her home. The child, police said, was burned by a va porizer. ' Landlord Must Maintain Electric Wiring, Court Holds The United States Court of Ap peals held yesterday that it is a landlord’s duty to keep an electrical system in repair. By the split decision, the appellate ; court sent a damage suit back to Municipal Court for retrial. The lower/ court had awarded Mr. and Mrs. Richardson S. Gladden, 100 Nineteenth street S.E., $1,750 dam age for injuries suffered by Mrs. Gladden on May 12, 1944. Mrs. Gladden testified she received a shock when she leaned against an electrical fixture and, in falling to the floor sprained an ankle. The defendants, Walker & Dunlop, Inc., > appealed to the Municipal Court j of Appeals which also ordered a | retrial. Thence the case went to the Federal Appeals Court. Justice Henry W. 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