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...around a hundred times," said one waiting photographer. "I thought he was just an ex-pug." Grunewald, a stumplike man with a florid face and a squashed nose, seemed willing enough to talk. His lawyer, however, had different ideas. Mincing around in front of Grunewald was dapper William Power Maloney, who chirruped: "He's not answering any questions." "Say ah," teased a reporter, but Henry wouldn't. Then lawyer and client disappeared into the subcommittee's hearing room...
...Order. Maloney fumed and shouted that his man would talk only at an open session, and the closed hearing broke up without a word of testimony from the mystery man. Next day the subcommittee suddenly decided to oblige Lawyer Maloney, and opened the doors. Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Eugene Keogh, substituting for Committee Chairman Cecil King, was armed with a gavel and a special pounding block for the big show. But before five minutes had gone by it was obvious that Maloney, his bluff called, was not going to let Grunewald answer questions even in open session. The lawyer...
Finally, Keogh agreed that Grunewald might read Maloney's statement. Grunewald fumbled with the pages, read haltingly, without even changing the phrases which referred to "my client." Essence of the statement: Grunewald wasn't going to answer any questions, because the subcommittee had turned itself into a trial court and was judging and convicting defendants without due process...
...Boss." Outside the hearing room, Grunewald again was jovially unconcerned. "He's the master mind," he rumbled, pointing at Maloney. "He's the boss." Maloney, glowing victoriously after pushing the subcommittee around, strutted over and demanded: "Now here, do I have to resort to physical violence to keep you shut up?" But client and lawyer did give the press one answer about the Teitelbaum case. It contained sharp references to the fact that Teitelbaum was once Al Capone's lawyer and that a glossy brunette divorcee named Shyrl B. Menkin, a "family friend," had corroborated Teitelbaum...
...never spoke to Teitelbaum by phone or otherwise," Grunewald said. "I don't know the son of a bee. If he's good enough to pick up the chips for Capone, he's . .." At. that point, Maloney seemed to think his client had said enough, so he finished the sentence: ". . . he's good enough for Mrs. Menkin, I suppose...