The New York herald., 1921-08-25
HE GOT CITY FAVOR
AS $1,000 VANISHED
Accounts of Standkeeper
Erased, but Restored for
Meyer Inquiry.
McMANUS ASSISTED HIM
Kahn on Stand Insists He
Changed Plan to Give
$500 to Leader.
McMANUS ASSISTED HIM
BET IT ON CARPENTER
Committee to Defend Those
Who Suffer by Having Tes-
tilted About Graft.

Showing dimly in the pages OF
Adolph Kahn's ledger of his accounts
as retail merchant in Washington
Market are entries OF $3,500 which
en- ink eradicator failed to blot out
when applied in an effort to destroy
evidence of how the meat dealer OBJ
tanned his stand.
The figures were restored by re-
producing chemical and gave the
Meyer Investigating Committee
hard days work yesterday in an
effort to find out how the money was
spent.
Kahn swore that he persuaded
Thomas j. (The) McManus, Tam
many leader, to help him get the
valuable stand permit from Com
missioner O'Malley of the Depart
ment of Markets. McManus was
successful
Afterward the meat dealer wanted
N give the Tammany district leader
present in compensation and made
out a check for $500. But he said
he thought better of it. tore up the
check, made out another for $500 to
bearer and took the cash himself
and bet it on the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight. He paid McManus nothing, he
swore, and "The' knew nothing
about the check.
On the very day that Kahn went
to the Municipal Building with Nc
Manus to meet O'Malley and get the
permit trouble Strengthened, the wit
ress said he drew out $4,000 in cash
hut on the way downtown he gave
the money to his brother-in-law, l.
Goldberg, as a loan.
On the destroyed page so of Kahn's
ledger appears the title Investment
Market Stands" Under this heading
are the items $4,000 drawn to. check
on April IL, the day Kahn went to the
Municipal Building, and $500 for an
other check. The other items represent
tho investment Kahn made in his
stand.
Published by .'Thc Herald
The remarkable circumstances con-
nected with this whole transaction
were published in detail in The New
York HERALD early in June when the
Meyer committee first began its in
quiry into the Department of Markets.
THE New YORK HERALD then printed
tho facts substantially as brought out
yesterday by the committee after
weeks of careful investigating. AS a
result of that publication, McManus
disappeared and 1t was some time be-
fore he returned and announced he
was ready to testify.
After weeks of painstaking efforts
Albert S. Osborne, examiner of ques-
toned documents and a handwriting
expert. patched together the pages which
some one had tried to destroy. The ink
eradicator was supposed to have blotted
out all trace of the S3.500 entries. But
the workmanship was poor and under
the more slxilful fingers of the expert,
who has been in that trade for thirty
years the dim figures reappeared long
enough 10 permit the experts to put to-
gether the accounts.
Steers & Menke. Inc, old Washing
ton Market merchants, wanted to get
stands held by Albert Klobein. whose
father had died, leaving the stalls az
part of his estate. Kahn also wanted
the stalls. Mr.. Menke testified that he
was negotiating when Kahn became n
competitor. The latter testified that he
was advised TO get the help of "The"
McManus, and having done business
with the McManuses at their garage
Eought out the Tammany leader.
Kahn Bcsted other Applicant.
IL was arranged that Kahn and Klob-
ioin meet McManus at the Municipal
Building on April IL last and see Com
missioner OMalley. They spent two
hours, part of the time waiting while
McManus did something. they did not
know what. Kahn got the permit that
dav.
Kahn had agreed TO pay Kloblein
5000 for the transfer of the permit.
The price was later cut down to $6.25o.
This difference in the price. $1,750. is
exactly half of the $3.500 figure stand
ing In the destroyed page so OF the
ledger. After he had gotten the permit.
following the conference between Nc