The New York herald., 1921-01-06
S1,75O,0OOFORGED
LIQUOR PERMITS
ARE DISCOVERED
Three Clerks, Two Of Them
Women, in Prohibition
Directors Office, Are
Arrested.
| CONSPIRACY CHARGED
Bureau Official Sees Evi-
dence of Corruption of
Clerks Here and in
Washington.
WEST SENDS FOR BOOZE
enforcement Agents Raid De-
tective Bureau-Wide In
quiry Is Started by L. s.
in New Jersey.
WEST SENDS FOR BOOZE

Three more employees, two OF them
women, in the office OF Charles r.
O'Connor. State Prohibition Director.
were named yesterday in the Bureau
of Internal Revenues investigation or
the liquor ring whose illegal dealings
in whiskey the Government officials
believe have amounted TO many mill
ions Of dollars.
AT the same time Mr. O'Connor, re-
turning TO New York after a con-
ference with Federal Commissioner
Kramer in Washington. seized ninety
two permits calling for the removal
OF liquor valued at more than $1,000,
900. which he believes to have been
forged by the use Of duplicate stamp
OF his own signature and that OF John
Connor. the clerk, who draws up the
permits.
The seized permits called for the re-
rnoval of liquor from bonded ware
houses in lots OF so TO $50 cases. The
detection OF these brings the total called
oConnor's Office within the last three
days TO 81 100000 worth OF liquor. Most
of them came from the West and the
middle West. particularly Ohio. Indiana
and California.
The three new figures in the liquor
scandal are William +. Mccoy, Katharyn
Il Foody and Mrs Voiberg Castillo MIC
Coy was arraigned yesterday before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
and held in $4,000 bail for a hearin.
next Wednesday. lie ls charged with
participating in a CONSPIRACY with Miss
Foody and Mrs Castillo "to dcrraud the
/ United States by procurns by fraud are
bribery the issuing OF permits 10 deal
| ers in nonbeverage alcohol from .he
office of the Federal Prohibition Com
missioner in Washington by means OF
bribes OF money offered and given 10
Irene z. Richardson and other persons
employed in the Washiagto1 osrc,.
search for One woman.
Miss Foody will be arraigned to-day
Mrs Castillo has been missing for sew
oral days. and officials believe she IS
trying TO get 10 italy. where her hus-
/ band lives.
! Chief McQuillan Indicated yesterday
| that ne believed the discovery Of he
connection of Mccoy Miss Foody and
Mrs. Castillo with the booze ring IS Of
even greater Importance than the ar
rests of Mrs Mary f. Parkins and Miss
Regime Sassone. also In Mr.. O'Cornor's
office. last week The Intelligence agents
believe they have not yet uncovered tho
big figures IN the ring and they believe
also that the ring which they are in
1estigatlng nov is not the principal orc
/ in the United States. but that there are
others whose operations have been even
greater and whose corruption OF cm-
ployecs in prohibition enforcement offices
may not have been confined 70 pere
clerks and stenographcrs. Chiefl Nc
Quilan said that the present investiga-
ton had by no means exhausted it's
possibilities and that other arrests are
likely to follow soon.
Chief McQulllan said that Mccoy
Miss Foody and Mrs. Castillo were
members OF the same combination with
Mrs. Parkins and Miss Sassone Ed
ward Donegan and Beansy Rosenfeld
They were frequent guests at the 'tes
parties" at the Hotel NcAlpin. where
the operations OF the ring. so far as
they affected the clerks In the local office
are belieycd by the officials TO have been
planned.
Accused Man L. From Mary land.
Mccoy lives at 1856 West Seventeen
street and comes from n good Maryland
family. His position IN the prohibit
ton directors office was not an i'm
portant one. or one which In Itself
would enable him to be OF any great
service to violators Of the Volstead act
He was an information clerk eHd ro-
ceived applications at the office wirdo~.
but Chief McQullan gays he has fNoaor
to believe that Mccoy acted as r co'ls
Meeting link between the operaicfs IN
o'Connor's office and those they cest
with H. Washington
McCoy's trail he said was plckad
up from a trip he made to washinntal :
fully two months ago. lie was afrcstet
Tuesday night at the Sevcrtieth strent
address and held overnight IN tAr West
Thrtieth street police station. MCCOY
/ was transferred to the New York oftice
from Washington June 49, lie re-
signed November Is.
! Miss Foody. who lives at A2o Grand
avenue. Tho Bronx. ls the daughter of
4 Michael Foody. a police captain, who
\ died several years ago. She obtained
an appointment in Mr. O'Connor's of
/ flee through civil service examination
\ on April 10 She was discharged cu
I the same day with Mrs. Parkins. and
4 for the same reason. Mr.. o'Connor said
/ ''for the good OF tho service" Miss
I Foody during a part OF her stay n
/ tho prohibition office was In charge
/ OF the withdrawal papers. and with
free access to the files II Is said she
( was in a position to supply valuable
/ information and TO be OF other assist-
! ance to evaders OF the liquor laws
| chef NssNillaT ~Syes that arrange