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...through the eight-day trial, Chemist Abe Brothman and his coconspirator, Miriam Moskowitz, sat mute and unblinking as dummies in a waxworks. They flatly refused to testify in their own defense, even after Soviet Spy Harry Gold took the stand to testify that Brothman had passed scores of defense blueprints to him, and that Brothman and his assistant, Miss Moskowitz, had gleefully helped Gold concoct a phony story for a 1947 grand jury investigation (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week in Manhattan district court, a federal jury found the two guilty of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...jail by dieting. With the shrunken look of an underprivileged cat, he slipped into the witness chair of a Manhattan federal courtroom one morning last week to testify against two of his old cronies. They were Chemical Engineer Abe Brothman, 36, and Brothman's assistant, spirited Miriam Moskowitz, 34, both accused of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...agents-"Rover boys," the spies called them-and a grand jury began asking questions of Gold. He laughingly reported to Brothman and Miss Moskowitz that he had given the grand jury the impression of being "a small, timid, frightened man, who in some manner was involved on the fringe of espionage and who now was completely aghast at what he was on the brink of." Brothman and Miriam were delighted...
Sitting across the courtroom from Harry Gold, Brothman heard the story last week in tight-lipped silence; Miss Moskowitz with grinning disdain. Their chance to answer it was yet to come...
...Cliffwood, NJ. one day last week, FBI agents walked into the Ulster Chemicals Co. plant (four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...