The New York herald., 1921-12-10
4 EX-FEDERAL MEN
IN DRY INDICTMENTS
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F'eehan, also deputy marshal at one
time. was discharged. Winkelman has
been in the Government service some
time. He lost his place with the change
IN the Administration. O'Neill was
dropped when a cut in the Department
of Justice staff was made.
Max stegman I'm Trap.
According to post office insectors.
Max Stegman, the Newark officeholder.
was the central figure in a conspiracy
TO make available large quantity OF
alcohol for bootlegging purposesd He
is said to have given Marcus L. w.
Norris, registry clerk in the Newark
office, $4,000 as a bribe to readdress a
registered letter TO prevent its being de-
livered TO Charles II. Brown. State Pro-
hibition Director of New Jersey. BY q
prearranged plan Norris turned the
money over to the inspectors, and Steg-
mans indictment followed.
The letter was from the Kentucky
Distilling Warehouse Company, 75o
Washington street, and contained with
drawal permits which were being sent
20 Director Brown for his approval A
confederate of Stegman's. II is said.
the permits. They were Immediately
used. and the Federal officers halted
the removal Of twenty-five barrels of
alcohol from the Chambers street ware
house, on which the Withdrawals were
to be made.
Coincident with the announcement Of
these charges of corruption and evasion
of the law in New Jersey. it was learned
yesterday at prohibition headquarters In
New York that a determined effort is to
be made by the authorities here to make
the release of liquor by any other than
legitimate means practically impossible.
The task is being approached from every
angle. and involves the cooperative effort
of Director Day, e. C. Yellowley, Hugh
McQuillan, chief of the special tntelli-
gence unit of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau, and the customs authorities.
Director Day announced that when
the prohibition offices are moved about
January 1, to their new quarters In
the Albemarle Building at Twenty
fourth street and Broadway, the entire
floor which they will occupy is to be
thrown wide open, with no separate
offices. Only railings will separate the
various departments. When a man en-
ters these offices to obtain permit
he will go 10 one pl9ce and no other.
The new offices will have their own
chemical department to make analyses
of all liquors seized.
Mr.. Day stated tlso that new
scheme for the distrf fbution and super
vision of withdrawal permits Is being
worked out, which it Is hoped will
make illegal manipulation of these i'm
possible. He said that Mr.. McQuillan
and the customs officers were planning
to work together to destroy smuggling.
Wines and Liquors Destroyed.
A despatch from Washington last
night stated that Commissioner Haynes
has approved a recommendation OF
Director Days sfor the concentration
of liquors seized in New York at the
New York army base. This new method
of warehousing seizures will save the
Government S25. 600 in rental costs, NJ
ficials said. The new quarters in the
Albemarle Building will save $4,000
more a year.
Nearly 1,500 quarts OF whlskey, brandy,
gin and other spirits, together with
forty-four barrels of imported wines.
were destroyed yesterday. The liquor,
seized aboard vessels in this port, after
being condemned by the Federal Dis
trict Court. was turned over to United
States Marshal Hecht, who broke the
bottles and emptied them into sink
in a warehouse on Washington street
near West Houston.
The wines, which were imported from
Spain and Italy. were the first shipment
to arrive here after prohibition. arriving
on the Gothla in March. 1919. General
Agent John Appleby sent the wine down
a sewer.
In Brooklyn Federal Judge Garvip
signed an order returning to Edward
j. Hart of 1916 Eighty-sixth street.
Brooklyn 900 cases OF whiskey seized
by prohibition agents at the Wallabout
terminal last October. The Government
has ten days In which to make an ap-
peal II desired. The Federal authorities
claimed Hart got the liquor by repre-
senting himself to be a wholesale drug
gist.