New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
r. Croehl Cleared; Cherey
and Bernfeld Accused
Of Seeking Brides
M.nv Other Officials
In City May Be Seized
Dentist and Exemptors'
Clerk Charged With Aid
ing Slackers

Ia age were Offering testimony that
s.v had openly solicited bribes from
...;,trapts. Louis l. Cherey and DR.. 5.
ssrpfeld. Of the deposed Exemption
o.,,3 %. were arrested late yesterday
,a.,noon and taken to the Tombs,
4,rgsd with conspiracy to defeat the
,,,,tive draft law. Owing TO the abb
,.,.. Of necessary officials the two
-, will be forced to wait until Mon
hy before bail can be arranged.
The Federal authorities exonerated
Dr. Henry NJ. Groehl, the third MEM
y, Of the board and brother Of Magis-
tate GroehL
The prisoners admitted that scores of
s-bss we're offered to them. Those
,so testified against them said that
..y had solicited bribes as high as
GOO. and had refused to exempt men
vso did not comply with their request
Csr though physically unfit.
Il was reported last night that the
arrests Of Bernfeld and Cherey will be
,,lowsd BY the apprehension of many
ro,e draft officials throughout the city.
Cherey Accused of Taking $500
Jseob svirsky, of sos Grand Street,
rs3s the most serious accusation. He
charged Cherev with having taken $500
from him with the agreement that he
would secure his exemption. Swirsky
was brought 70 the District Attorneys
once BY Assistant District Attorney
Samuel Nsrkewitz, who resides in the
ssns exemption district.
7 was examined by the board and
p,usd." said Swirsky, although
claimed exemption because l was phys
rily unfit and the sole support OF
M mother. Cherey said he would
,,,s ne if I paid $500 for my exemp-
t,, told him that would be very
Ls-3 for me, as was earning only Slo
,v,sk / went out and collected $50
uaring l pawned, $50 from my rela-
tyss and 500 from my employer.
Chusy compromised on the $780,"
Another complainant was Louis
Dsu,ssh. twenty-four years old. of 81
Cannon Street. Deutsch said that he
vas also passed BY the medical ex-
sninsrs as physically fit, though life
insurance societies have refused his
sgpliestions because Of a faulty heart.
Abraham Luger, twenty-four years old,
q zs5 Rivington Street, told Mr.. Dool-
i,g that ne had fat feet and is near
sighted, but that he was passed by
lie medical examiners Of Board 80.
Boz. he and Deutsch, they declared
were told TO scrape together as much
no,sy ss they could and come back
iof resxamination. Both were un-
ale 70 collec. thl money and, return
,g 70 the board, were reexamined and
passed as physically fit again.
Dentist Under Arrest
Eslman Gruher, a mechanical den
sit Of 25O Delaney Street, was also
'Ianinsd BY Mr. Dooling and later
ia,sd under arrest, being committed
= tie Tombs. Max Noble, Of |299 Riv-
sroa Street, who was employed by
bard 90 as a clerk, was brought to
es District Attorneys Office on sub
pe-a The warrant on which the two
~ were arrested charged that on the
n o. August the men named, "in
Uz..on OF the provisions Of Section
q the Eelectlve draft act, did con-
Els that they should knowingly ana
flislly make and be parties 20 the
slnng o. certain false and incorrect
fys.cal examinations, exemptions, en-
A,nenis. elr0lments and discharges
y various persons called before the
h-s board and, further, that they
~ made false statements and GER
.staies as % the fitness and Liability
y tyers persons"
vas learned that Gruher's son Jo-
~ had been exempted by the board
s.ssf ssveral talks the father had with
Iasiey and Berufeld. Gruher also ad-
Siss1, the authorities said, that he
.4a Obtained exemption ai'idavits for
lsssfsl candidates and had taken them
,'sies % be signed Noble informed
~ Dco..1g that he had heard talk Of
-,asy beng paid over py men seeking
.Lsnpton, but that he had not seen
- o. tais money paid 20 any one.
Cherey Tells Of Bribe Offers
ssi there may have been bribes
atse and passed % others on the
s..ia' Cherey said. - know that
,,is we're three or four doctors around
- lhai ! didn't know, but ] wouldn't
4. Dssn aatlfAed had u not been for
,,s 'y,ihhessncs Teposed in DR.. Bernfeld
~ " 1roehl, Who passed on about
81 ~ cent o. the Tegistrants. The
~, eDsiors we're allowed % pass
Sh ne men accepted.
~ Dafte, there w6s talk Of br1be.
w. hssrd y rumored that bribes
49, tDs'ng offered all over the city.
u -. an guilty 81 all, I am guilty
-. sDt4hg men that ought 20 have
y a tempted II any one is guilty,
p, ~ groshl, who was responsible
re-, ,'G2,Dst al the reflections. We
IA. ln brother vas q city magis-
as., e Ns had him pass on all the
~ ~. !. ofaef that there mightnt be
ssttt-, after making this Ae-
Es Sssrsy retrGetsd, saying that
ezsskf sesf1e would show that DE-.
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