New-York tribune., 1902-09-11
GENERAL BOTHA.
MAKE BIG SNUFF SEIZURE.
DEPUTY MARSHALS DESCEND On FOUR
PLANTS.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS OF
sNEEzE MIXTURE sEIzED-PRIsONERs
DECLARE IT Is TRUST PERSECUTION.
A force Of United States deputy marshals un
| der the direction of Special Treasury Agent
| Charles H. Seaweu, OF Chicago. made raids
| yesterday four snuff manufactures on the
East Side. took seven prisoners and seized
| llants containing about hundred thousand
| pounds of snuff in process of manufacture. the
value of the plants being estimated at S23'pp
| The prisoners were arraigncd befurc Commits
| sioner Hitchcock, In the Federal Building, and
| next Monday for the hearing. when Mr..
Seawel expects to prove that there has been in
existence for twenty years ~ the heart of this
city a regular ORGANIZATION for the illegal sale
of unstamped snuff and regular channels
through which thousands Of pounds Of the
snuff disposed Of so as defraud the
government OF fully S25o01o in stamp taxes
The Treasury Department and tho American
Tobacco Company have been after these manu-
facturers for some years. bur without avail is
the men who worked on the werc known 20
the members Of the Organization. Then Special
Treasury Agent SeaWen came from Chicago
with the result that yesterday United States
Deputy Narshals Blake. Gcbhardt and kopp
arrested the suspected men, who, when ar
raigned before Commissioner Hitchcock gave
their names as Jacob Scharlin. OF Simon Schar-
lin & Son, Of No, 10 piyision-st.: ". Hirsch-
berg and Solomon Weiner. OF The Same factory;
Siudel Weiugarten and his son Morris the
firm Of s. weingarten & Co Of No. 222 Broome-
st: Charles Rosen. Of No. Ia Rivington-st., and
Louis Meiser of Nos. 2t4 and 246 Madison-st
The charge against the men that they
removed from the mandatory where made
manufactured snuff without its being put up in
proper packages and without afhxing the proper
internal revenue stamps. as requlred BY law
and selling and offering TOR sale such snuff
The Commissioner held each in s., 500 bail.
with the exception of Jacob Scharlin, who is A
deaf mute and who was paroled in the custody
of his counsel. George Simpson. The marshals
also wanted the elder Scharlin. They were In
formed that he III and probably dying at
his home, at Mountaindale y. Y. but that ne
would be produced If he could sa1etE ~ pio"sAt
10 the city on q strstcher-
The Scharlin firm has been in business for
over twenty years, and is one Of the Oldest snutt
ma nufacturing firms in the trade Prior 10
the esta blishnent Of the present firm Simon
Scharlin was in business for himself and was
at one time, it is said, Formidable @ tolnPetltor t
Of Pierre Lorillard He has since - - az
business and is said 10 be wealthy ochatln
asserted through his lawyer thaI tle aIlest9
were a part of long and bitter persectIIoil, p & 10
which he alleged that the lnuePtIiNFiL'
factnrers Of snuff had been subjected by the
trust. -. l.
Tho Internal Revenue officials assert that be
tween May . and August 30 SpeclaI S treasury
Agent Seawell assisted by Colonel 9lnse,, OF
the same service, purchased more uldI Nv ~ Hu IL
in proper packages, and that had nor haa tne Inc
proper stamps affixed, or that naa oeeh si1 ~. ~
in used packages, and they 1uIlHeI $500 4.
that they have discovered that these
and others whom they expect 10 aIIesl ndHs ~
been regularly organized for CARRYING 'i '"''
Illicit business.