The New York herald., 1921-11-13
RUM TAX MILLION,
GOT ONLY $4,000
Lawyer for Z. j. Donegan Bid.
icules Income Levy Of
81, ,653,797.
lie FILES AN ABATEMENT
Penalties Against Man Held
i'm Bootleg Plot Are
$708,770.
lie FILES AN ABATEMENT

Edward j. Donegan, who is under two
indictments for conspiracy In alleged
bootlegging enterprises and against whom
the Government has filed claim of ST.
653.75725 for income taxes and penalties
for failure to make a return for the year
1920. is worth only $4,000. according to
his lawyer. Charles Berlin.
If Donegan lived TO be 100." said MIR.
Berlin, "he couldn't pay this enormous
tax. l can't see by what arithmetical
means the Government has arrived at
the sum mentioned"
Donegan's counsel declared the $4,000
deposited in the Peoples Trust Com
pany of Brooklyn, against which the
Treasury Department has foreclosed q
lien, although under Donegan's name,
does not belong to him. He explained
that when Donegan was indicted he had
to furnish col ateral to the Fidelity and
Deposit Conn any of Maryland that the
company might go on his bond, and that
his friends collected the $4,000, which
was deposited in the. Brooklyn bank.
Mr.. Berlin said Donegan was not for
merly a waterfront worker but that he
had been in comfortable circumstancc ccs
for nlanv years, that he had been a fore
man for E. w. Bliss & Co and later went
into the lumber bushes. He said an
abatemC ut to the income tax claim had
been filed.
Penalties S7OS,T7O.
It was learned yesterday that the
Government fixed s945027 as the sum
Donegan must pay in income taxes and
that the penalties for not having done
so amount to $7OS,77O. making the total
of S1,653.797.
nj inn Of tlt.e Tl,@fnO .1.-fN an
forcement office Is under way, it became
known yesterday, when announcement
was made of the dismissal of six agents.
1T Is understood that William r. Kssick
at present in charge of the Brooklyn Of
flee, will continue there.
Jacob Braunstein and Joserh Kupfer-
berg, prOprietors of the winery at 10
East Third street which was raided by
Federal agents Friday afternoon an,
where thousands of gallons of wine were
seized, We're arraigned yesterday before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock.
charged with violation of the Volstead
act. Hearing in the case was set for
November 10 and the men were released
on bonds of $1.500 each.
Joseph Feldman, William Wolf, Getz
Straus and Felice Cioforms. employees
at the plant, were held in $500 bail each.
Stolen Whiskcy Found.
Two barrels of whskey, valued at
S1,660 each, which We're stolen shortly
after midnight Friday from dead
storage garage at 20 Adelphi street
Brooklyn, We're recovered by Detectives
Reardon and Kelly within few hours.
Five men were placed under arrest
charged with robbery and assault. and
held without bail by Magistrate NJ
Closkey in the Gates avenue court for
examination.
The five are George Miller, q clerk.
of 38 Fort Greene place: George McDel-
mott. A salesman, OF 325 Furmar street;
Thomas Brennan, q clerk, of l62 Wash
ington park; Richard Tanner, q ma
chlnist. of 354 Myrtle avenue, and Jo-
seph Creighton. a chauffeur. of 25
Clermont avenue, all of Brooklyn.
According to the watchman at the
garage the men drove up in a truck
and carried off the barrels He said
one of them covered him with a revol-
yer and took from him S25 and his
police whistle. The watchman saw the
license number of the truck. so the
police were abba to trace it to a garage
at 129 Classon avenue. where the men
were found working on it. 1t had been
obtained from another garage BY means
OF q forged order supposed to come
from the owner. The whiskey was still
in the truck.