The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-26
HON. p. J. F0GARTY AT
LAST Is IN BASTILE
BY His Arrest Swindlno Gang Loses
Ore Of It's Most Promising
Mennknrs

New York. May 26. One Of the
0 de t swinding gangs in New York.
doing business Under the name OF
the Hon Peter Justus Fogarty, lost
one Of its most promising members
Tuesday when Kenneth Shaw We
held in the Tomoe court in $4,000
bail for the grand jury on charge
of obtaining by fraud, money ostens
lIy intended for charity.
For at east twenty years the smooth
rich voice of the Hon Peter has been
tclepbonins to charitably minded
persons and firms OF New York and
getting contributions in the name of
non existent Tammany clubs for the
purpose Of sending scrubwomen and
Their children on fictitious outings.
Sometimes he is a senator, sometimes
an assemblyman; occa aonally. suit.ne
his plea to the season, his philan-
thropy takes the form of buying
coal for the east side poor. But
Whatever ne is or the kindly deed in
hand his voice a ways has the ring Of
authority and there is no way OF est.
mating the number of thousands of
dollars that have come running at
M Dlad ng avery sO ol,cn a. =.
arrested, but no sooner do the prison
doors ciose on him than a new Hon
Pete" Iustus Foaartv. tn the -arue
seductive voice, is heard on the phone.
Il mas got So III Tie .,aaucia4 ,... 4....
whore everybody specia ICES on some.
thing. that Detectives Kalbfeisch and
and Fleming q the Old Sin station
have become the leading authorities
on the subject of the Honorable Peter.
Last October they arrested man
VINO called to collect money for the
coal fund from NJ. /. Kats OF Pine
street to whom the benevo ent Mr..
Fogarty had telephoned. A while
.atar they were talking to Thomas
Feeny Of Spencer Trask and Co, who
rs the omcia alomer for that broker
abe firm 1t developed that among
the many charities to which the
brokers subscribed were those OF the
hon. Peter Justus Fogarty
If that bird ever calls YOU M again
let us know" said Kalbheisch.
Last Thursday Feeny let thom know
Senator Peter Justus Fogerty had
called him up and asked il the firm
would contribute its usual sum. $40
/ Tor the FIRST Ward National Democra.
/ Tic clubs outing for scrubwomen and
their CHI ren. Senator Fogarty
would dron in at the office Of Snenco
! Trask & Co., the next morning and
get the money He did so, and, get.
ting a check for $40. gave Mr.. Feeny
n, receipt stamped First Ward Nat
ona Democratic club and card
stamped Hon, Peter Justus Fogarty.
AT that point Detectives Fleming
and KalbHeisch arrested the checU
chaser He said he was Kenneth
onaw, 30 Years old, salesman OF II,
state street, Brooklyn According to
the detectives, he also said he was
the man who phoned Spencer TRASH
&Co., and gave the name Honorable
b'etor Justus Fogarty In that respect
alone did he differ from the other
pli oners taken in the past years. The
others ] swore they were merley
messengers, but here, according to the
detectives, is a man who lays claim tC
being the Hon p j Fogarty, himself
There is no Peter lustus Fogalty ii
the senate or elsewhere SO far az
the police know. There is no Fir I
ward National Democratic club. There
is no Firt ward