Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-24
TAMMANY CHIEF
IS INDICTED ON
SERIOUS CHARGE
BY GRAND JURY
Murphy and Others Said to
Have ConSpired to Force
Settlement of Damage Suit
For 10 Million Dollars.
,FALSIFYlNG INCOME
TAX ALSO ALLEGED
Assistant District Attorney
Smith Is Included Among
Those Against Whom True
Bills Were Returned,

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlREls
New York, June 23.-Charles F.
Murphy, Tammany leader, was one
of the six men secretly indicted
yesterday by the extraordinary
grand jury. which has been investi-
eating alleged attempts of Mr..
Murphy to intimidate Louis n.
Hartog, a manufacturer. into re-
turning 125.OOO which he invested
with Hartogs company during the
war.
With Mr.. Murphy we're indicted
Assistant District Attorney James
e. Smith, John A. Mccarthy. for
mer business partner Of John Muir
ply. brother of Charles F. Murphy;
Arthur ]. Baldwin, a lawyer; Err
nest b. Walden, vice president of
the Corn Products company, and
the Corn Products company itself.
The indictments, 1T was learned
today, charged that the defendants
conspired to coerce Hartog to settle
a suit for $10,000,000 damages,
which he brought against Murphy
after the latter is alleged to have
withdrawn his support from Har-
Itogs company. BAN for each de-
tfendant was fixed at $1,000.
Hartog was head of company
which manufactured a product Of
which glucose Is the chief ingredi-
ent. He received a $500, 900 order
| from the British government dur
Ting the war, but found difficulty in
obtaining the necessary glucose.
Thereupon, it is alleged, he ex-
panded his company and when he
obtained Murphy's support. no
longer had difficulty in getting
glucose from the Corn Products
company.
After Hartog and Murphy are al
legged to have had fal!ingout,
Murphy sued Hartog to recover his
$125, 900 investment and Hartog
then sued Murphy, the Corn Prod
ucts company and Baldwin and
Mccarthy to recover $4,000, 900
profit which he said he lost as a
result of Murphy withdrawing his
support. He claimed he could no
longer get glucose from the Corn
Products company.
AT the time these court actions
were pending Smith summoned
Hartog to his office Hartog claim
ed Smith summoned him to force
him to pay Murphy his s125,000,
but Smith asserted he had issued
the summons at time when he
was engaged in prosecuting sugar
profiteers. Hartog's brother was
fined $1,000 in federal court for
rrofiteering but Hartog himself
vas given a clean bill by Mr.. Smith.
The Indictment sets forth that
the agreement between Murphy
and Hartog shows an increase from
$4,000 to $1,000,000 in the capi-
tai stock of Hartog's firm. the
North kensington Refining com
pany. When Murphy and Hartog
1t is alleged, became Jointly inter
ested in the business in April, 1918,
profits of the business subject to
the war tax were estimated at
100000 year.
The indictment charges that on
April S, 1918, in order that Mur-
ply should obtain a larger income
and q quick return on his invest
ment, James E. Smith and others
unlawfully and corruptly combined
to defraud the government Of mon
eys due 1t by filing with the collec-
tor Of internal revenue misleading
and false entries as to the records
Of the business.
The name of James j. Hines
democratic leader in the eleventh
assembly district, New York. was
among the witnesses listed in the
back of the Indictment. June 2S
was set as the date for pleading.