New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-27
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Bogus Whisky
Stamps Seized
Federal Agents Raid Store.
room and Printing House
Said to Have Supplied
Illegal Trade i'm East
Three Prisoners Taken
City Files Forgery Charge;
More Arrests Due: Presses
Are To Be Confiscated

Agents of the Department of Justice
who have been working for several
weeks past in an effort to find the
source of counterfeit internal revenue
stamps found on bottled goods recently
seized in this and other cities, yester-
day raided printing house at SO Ann
Street and confscated two truck loads
OF these stamps and quantity of
we'll known whisky labels, said to have
a market value of s2,oOo,00O. The
larger quantity of the conhscated
stamps were found in the store rooms
Of the printing house at AZ Fulton
Street
Department Of Justice agents, work.
ing under the direction of Chief Will
liam j. Flynn, recently seized a small
quantity of these internal revenue
strips, as they are called, and learned
that they were being sold by an Italian
merchant. On Monday night the
agents, working in conjunction with
members OF the Italian SQUAD, arrested
three Italians who are said to have had
a small supply of these strips in their
possession.
All three men were arrested at their
homes and gave their names as Vim
cenzo Erollo, of 167 Mulberry Street:
Dante Sirgnano, of So Bayard Street
and Rafale Legnanti, of 129 Mott
Street.
Did Large Business in East
AS result OF these arrests it is
sGlG that the agents obtained informa-
ton which led to the discovery of the
printing plant where 1t is charge d
that the larger part of all the ia lse
labels and forged internal revenue
strips used on liquor illegally bot
tied in the East in recent months were
made.
W hen five members of the Depart
ment of Justice we're entering the
office of the printing plant, known as
the Imperial Press, on Ann Street,
they passed a man who was carrying
a bundle under his arm. At the sight
of the agents the man turned and was
making his way hastily toward the
street door when he collided with
sixth agent. The latter arrested the
man, who gave his name as John Doch-
nahl, and said that he lived at 1885
Irving avenue, Brooklyn. The agents
said that the package which the man
carried contained wood cut of false
withdrawal permit.
Entering the pressroom of the plant
the detectives arrested two other men
they found there. These gave their
of IS Sands Street, Brooklyn, and
Louis Santangelo, of 9S Jones Street.
The three prisoners were taken to Po-
lice Headquarters, where they were
charged by the Federal authorities
with forging and circulating revenue
stamps, and by the city police with
violation of Section 14S-l51 of The
Penal Law, pertaining to forgery.
Medicinal Warming Labels in Lot
From the Offices of the Imperial
Press the agents went to lat Fulton
Street. where, according to the Fed
eral authorities, besides the internal
strips and false liquor labels for many
amous brands of whisky, they seized
large number of labels announcing
that the liquor contained in the bottle
bearing such label was "for me-
dicinal purposes only"
The / ederal authorities declare that
the prisoners have been selling the in
ternal revenue stamps, the whisky
labels and the medicinal warning in
sets, S2.15 for dozen sets Recently
the agents say man who had been
following the activities of the Depart
ment of Justice for the Imperial Press.
advised the printers to get rid Of
their reserve supply as fast as pos
sible. AS result of this advice the
price for a dozen sets had been re-
duced to $1OO. A single internal
revenue stamp of the denomination
seized is sold by the Federal govern
ment for eighty cents.
The agents did not make known the
owner of the printing plant at SO Ann
Street, but said that the presses would