New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
Arresting Officers Say
Prisoners Taken at Nc
Alpin Hotel Offered
Them $4,000 Bribes
II. s. Blanks Given
To Alleged Ring
Prohibition Director's s
Name Said to Have
Been Forged TO Orders
Withdrawing Liquor r


rested early yesterday morning by
agents Of The special intelligence unit
O; the Bureau of Internal Revenue in
connection with an alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government. In the fur
therance of this, it is charged, certain
papers were taken from the Office of
C. R. O'Connor, State Prohibition Di-
rector. which enabled Edward Donegan,
one of the prisoners, to traffic in liquor
permits and get from distilleries liquor
worth at least S500,000.
Four of the prisoners were arraigned
late last night before United States
Commissioner Samuel NJ. Hitchcock
They are Donegan, a contractor of
Brooklyn and living at Eighty-fourth
Street and Twelfth Avenue. Bail in his
case was fixed at 500 900.
Sigmund "Beanss;" Rosenfeld, Il
gambler, was held in $50,u00 bail. The
two women are Mrs. Mary Parkins and
Miss Regina Sassone. Both were clerks
in the Office of the Prohibition Direc-
tor. The former lives in the McAlpin
and the latter at 317 Seventy-eighth
Street, Brooklyn. Their bail was set
ut $4,000 each.
One Taken at Rail Station
The other man, George Stibbinson,
was arrested prior to the other de-
fendants in the Pennsylvania Station.
Uo ~ 80,
ceiving bribc. He was not arraigned.
Donegan, alias Ed Joyce, alias Ed
Lynch, alias Edward Doregan, is named
in two complaints. In one he is
charged with conspiring with Miss
Sassone to cet papers from the files of
the prohibition director, and in the
other with bribing and attempting to
bribe agents of the special intelligence
unit to release him and the other de-
PENDANTS and destroy the evidence
against them.
Mrs Palkns was charged with ac-
cepting a bribe of $3.50 from Anthony
Pappano, said by the Federal author
tiles to be I liquor broker, using 1874
Blocker Street as an address He was
arrested Wednesday IN Washington and
IS held in $4,000 bail for bribery. Mrs.
Parkins also is charged with taking
TOT fifty envelopes and letter heads. a
number of basic permit blanks and ap-
pilcations for withdrawal permits.
isosenfe is charged with attempting
TO bribe agents of the Internal Revenus
Department.
The Federal authorities suspicious
were aroused by Mrs. Parkins. Her
salary from the Internal Revenue De-
partment is Sl,440 year. Miss Sas-
sone's is the same. B tn women AVE
been in the New York Office since June.
mrs. Perkins was transferred mere
from another branch of the ser
few weeks ago. She is thrive .ght
years cid. Miss Sassone is twenty-one
years old.
When .Mrs. Parkins was found to be
liv ng in an expensive room in the Nc
Aipin the special intelligence unit he
came interested in her.
The investigation has been in prog
ress for two months. Hugh McQuillan,
chief Of the special intelligence unit,
said the conspiracy had been going on
SINCE September, may be longer. In
mat time thousands OF cases of liquor
have been removed illegally from ware
houses and distilleries. he said, and
Donegan, the executive of the gang,
Simple Method Followed
The schene,>as charged in the com,
plants and outlined by Mr.. McQuillan,
was simple. Both women worked in
ar. OConnor's office. There is where
permits are issued for the withdrawal
oi hduor: These withdrawal permits
are or what is known to the trade as
form .--,
When permit is issued it is filled
IN with the amount of liquor required
ana presented to the distillery. Under
q recent ruling by the department not
more than two months ago, the distil-
,,er, on receiving the order for the
;nqnor, telegraphs to Mr.. O'Connor ask
ing If the permit is good If the rec
ords in Mr.. O'Connor's Office show that
It IL, a Telegram is sent to the distil-
.s, va in> so. II not, he is advised by
sseiegram not to fill the order and to
''rward it to the department.
Miss Sassone hpd fis rye Of the tele-
grams from the distil)crs. She is said