The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-06-26
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WARRANT ISSUED
FOR MURPHY
Boss of Tammany Hall Indicted
by Special Grand Jury on
Charge of Conspiracy to
Defraud
DELEGATE TO
CONVENTION
Five Others Involved in Case
Which is Alleged to Have
Been an Attempt to Falsify
Income Tax Returns

new 1Ofh, JuiiS 20. .i1tuiS.i'AN'AS .
Charles f. Murphy, leader OF Tam
many hall, and five others on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the Uunlted
States by .falsifying income tax re-
turns and attempted intimidation or
Louis n. Hartog, a wealthy manu-
facturer through criminal prosecution,
was announced here today. The.
indictments, which were returned
secretly by the extraordinary grand
jury vest aerday came: as a great surz
prise. Murphy is now on his way to
the Democratic national convention at
San Francisco.
4, Others indicted with Murphy We're
Assistant District Attorney James p.
Smith, one of the central figures in
the ..vice war" between the district
attorneys office and the police de-
partment: John A. Mccarthy. former
business partner of John Murphy,
brother of the Tammany leader;
Arthur J.. Baldwin, lawyer; Ernest!
3. Walden, vice president OF the Corn
Products company, and the Corn Pro
ducts company itself. Bail. for each
defendant was fixed at $1,000,
Murphy is charging among other
things, with trying to intimidate Har-
tog into settling a s10,800,000 damage
suit brought against the. Tammany
Header after the latter is alleged to
have withdrawn promised financial
support in glucose product firm in
which Hartog was interested. The
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threatened to accuse Hartog of arson,
to expose to his wife his alleged secret
relations. with another woman. send
him to jail for offenses he did not
commit. and ruin his business.
Indictment sets forth,
procured a S7,000,00e order for his
product from the British government
during the war He found difficulty
in acquiring the necessary amount of
glucose to complete the order. He
then enlisted the aid of Murphy
through whose influence, the indict-
ment recites the needed ingredient
was obtained from the Corn
Products company.
Hartog and Murphy later disagreed
over business matter and Murphy
sued Hartog to recover $125,O0o in
vested in the manufacturers company.
Then Hartog sued Murphy, the Corn
Products company and Baldwin to
recover sfO,000,00o profits he said
he had lost through withdrawal Of
Murphy's pledged support asserting
he could no longer get glucose from
ooy,o
Hartog was summoned to Assistant
District Attorney Smiths office while
these court actions were pending.
Hartog alleges Smith summoned him
to force him to pay Murphy his s125,-
600, but Smith claims he issued the
summons solely in the interest Of
prosecution of sugar. profiteers. Har-
tog's brother was fined $4,000 in fed
eral court for sugar profiteering. but
Smith gave Hartog himself a clean
bill.
San Francisco, June 24.-Charles F.
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, ac-
companied by Gov. Alfred Smith of
New York, came to town tonight, but
he had nothing to say. The New York
delegation and the Tammany hosts are
due here tomorrow. "I have been out
of touch with politics for several
days." said Mr.. Murphy, "and can't
say what 1.-The New York delegation
will do until we have a caucus. AS to
a plank in the platform to amend the
Volstead act, that, is matter that
will have to be fought out on the con-
vention floor"
Mr., Murphy's attention was called
to a. story of his indictment in New
York on the ground of conspiring to
coerce Louis Hartog, manufacturer,
to return s125,oOO which the Tam
many leader invested with the Hartog
company.
That's business suit" said the
chieftain, "and all will
say about it is that Hartog got the
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