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Ex-Counsel for Arnold ‘Rothstein Resents a es) —., rr "I object to your stleking your | By Hub M. George | nose into my private business, | LANSING, June 15—Isaiah Lee-{ which is none of your business,’ he | bove, financlal “angel” of Gov. Com-}told Rep, Ate Dykstra. ! slock's campaign, dropped his mys- “Yes, I represented Arnold Roth-| tery role Thursday to tell the House /steln in New York. Why go into! Lobby Investigating Committce that|that? I don't think it js any of | he never bad atlempted to influence) your affair,” he tartly observed, | the “springing” of Ray Bernstcin,| The witness testified that he had Harry Keywell and Tiving Milberg,{ heen in Michigan four ot five years, sentenced from Detroit to Mar- had known Comstock about five quette Prison for fe for the Col-"years and that he lived in Clare. lingwood Avenue massacre. State ‘Taken Over’ The charge had been entered on, the records a few minutes earlier; Chairman Lawrence O'Neil ob- by Senator Ray Derham, of Mar-/served that public charges had quette County, that Leebove, on his| been made that he “had taken over survey of prisons, and Edwurd N.|the State,” and asked him to. Frensdorf, by jong distance tele-| answer, Phone call, had attempted to prevail “That's a tough question. It on Warden James Corgan, of thej/doesn't mean anything. Before a prison, to grant a private interview’ man is called upon to answer, I with these prisoners to Fred Kap- believe he should Know what the lan, a New York lawyer friend of question means. Does it mean Leebove’s. something treasonous? ‘Selling out’ “iSaplan was in Marquette when'T believe was the phrase used.” T got there, had been there three Clarification of the question. or four days, and told me he was elicted the answer that Leebove intereated in these so-called Purple jhad ‘never expected anything,. Gangsters,” Leebove testified, = never wanted anything, and never No Speclal Courtesies will want anything, but I still hold z as in see a a wantin ngs “Marquette th benalt of the ‘Purple that are just, and things that the Gang, 1 told the warden that Tjavernge citizen has a right to ask didn’t want him in any way to ex-/of his Government.” tend any courtesies to Kaplan be-/ The witness and Rep, Dykstra {cause he was a friend of mine. clashed heatedly when Dykstra |. “TD feel that you owe it lo me to) asked his given name and whether jeall Warden Corgan and verlfyjhe had defended Rothstein. what I say.” “Those queéstions are foolish. ' Leebove proved an alert witness It's -a damn bad policy te bring 4, -The path of the interrogators wasjman In here that hasn't been ac-- ‘thorny. Weil-groomed, suave, ajcused of wrong-doing—that there Master of every situation, he hadjnever was any reason to nuestion— the investigators backing away) that you can’t show the slightest from his own questioning at the right to question within the scope Anish. jo the authorization for this In- “Yes, T contributed $20,000 to $214 quiry,” Leeboye asserted. 1000 toward the election of Comstock Naughty Words Beplored Ji he ren again, an was able td «ay ' | make the contribution $300,000, Td you're using De tre veniee ee jbe glad to. What about it?” hemoment later he added: “You lchallenged. —-—7——eame here to lecture the Commit- tee and not to answer questions.” “It certainly wouldn't do you any harm to be lectured {o, birt that fs IP 1 6-f c - f