State v. McLaughlin

The state offered evidence and claimed to have proved that these three accused had agreed together to hold up the night watchman on the dock of the Thames River Line in Bridgeport; that pursuant thereto they met as prearranged with Kenneth Smith, who was familiar with the location and knew that on that night there was a valuable cargo of tobacco and cigarettes there; that these four and two other unidentified men shortly after midnight on June 24, 1938, proceeded to the vicinity in two automobiles; that there, Smith and the two strangers, one of whom carried a gun, entered the dock to…