The New York herald., 1922-12-30
FOUR LA MONTAGNES NAMED1
IN RACQUET CLUB CHARGES
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peFlleiu Company, lnc., lnt StoSh "
which IN turn is owned entirely by the
four La Montague brothers.
1T is alleged in the indictment that
the defendants sold whisky of the Green
River Distilling Company. Inc, 10 per-
sons who had no permits therefor. The
Green River held what Is known as q
b, or wholesale liquor dealers permit,
from January, 1920. TO November, 1927,
when all such permits were Cancelled.
and during this entire period large guam
titles of Green River whisky were sold
TO other bootleggers who would present
forged and altered permits therefor.
"lt is alleged that defendants obtained
a branch distillery permit for Eminence
Distillery Company. Inc. and sold whisky
of that company to persons who had no
permit to purchase. This whisky was
sold direct to consumers and the tram
sactions were covered by counterfeited
and forged permits.
at Is further alleged that defendants
sold Intoxicating liquors OF E. La Mon
tagne Sons. Inc, to persons who had no
permits therefor The liquors of this
company We're imported wines, gin,
Scotch whisky. brandy, &c. The permits
which covered these transactions were
not, SO far as is known, forged, but IL
not were delivered by the permittee to
the La Montagnes with the understand
ing that pernittees would not obtain the
liquor or pay for II. but that ir might
be b6otlegged by La Montagnes.
where the Liquor Went.
1T is further alleged that defendants
filed false, fraudulent and perjurious re-
turns for the three companies named
The reports referred to are the monthly
reports required by law 10 be filed with
the Collector of Internal Revenue showi
ing the persons to whom liquor has been
sold during the month.
Each month one OF the La Mon
tagnes would swear to this report,
which indicated that the liquor had been
q :sposed OF to the ,,ermittees, named on
the permits on file in the office of the
respective companies. whereas as a mat
ter of fact 1t had been sold to various
high class grocers in New York, TO
members of the Racquet and Tennis
Club and to other persons. The La
Montagnes could no doubt be charged
with perjury were it-not for the fact
that the regulations OF the Treasury
department prescribe that the oath
shall be merely that the report is
correct transcript OF the books. The
books We're falsified, but the report was
a correct transcript thereof.
1T is further alleged that defendants
arranged TO have the incriminating
forged and counterfeit permits Of Emil
nence Distillery Co., Inc. taken up and
done away with. This was done after
the first visit of the inspectors in MayS
and to accomplish it a forged letter on
g IetterheaS OF the Prohibition Director
was presented authorizing two named
agents to take up the permits. The
letter was brought in by two unknown
persons. agents of the defendants. and
the discriminating papers were done
away with
THE second count of this indictment
is similar to the first with the addition
that ii is alleged that the defendants
conspired to defraud the Government OF
the taxes OF nquor when sold for bever-
age purposes and of income taxes. The
iatter conspiracy is evidenced by the
crediting on the books of the corpora
tons not the actual price at which
liquor was cold but a fictitious price
which would correspond with the price
at which IL might be sold for non
beverage purposes. For instance the
whisky IVES put on Emincnce books as
sold for $50 case whereas the La Mon
tagnes sold it to their friends for $40
q case. The balance OF $50 was con-
verted into cash. II not already in that
form, and divided among the conspra'
tors.
Forgery of Permits.
THE second indictment is based or
possessing and utterfng forged permits
and does not include Montaigu La Mon
tagne. Harlow. Scnuttenberg, or the
two Burrows.
BY way of indicating the basis for
charging the La Montagnes with boot
logging the indictments mention
business transaction between Rene La
MontagYe and J. Livingston e Co. in
which the latter gave the former a
check for s1,100. on February Il. 1922.
Other payments alleged to be for
LIQUOR provided by the so-called con-
spirators are citc%, as:
B. r. Tnayer, April H. for s110 TO A.
f. Strong. I
Rene La Montague.
Walter Mayer. March "a, $3.50, pay
able to cash"
f. Townsend Irwin. April 5. for $3.50,
payable to Rene La Montague.
Further along. in the second indict-
ment dealing with forged permits and
counterfeting of withdrawal orders, the
following individuals and drug stores
are named as having received liquor:
Monterey Pharmacy, Inc. Sixth ave-
nue. and Kingsley street. Asbury Park.
fourteen cases Of whisky on May Z.
werts Pharmacy. 175 Broadway.
Long Branch. fourteen cases of
whisky.
H. l.. Behrens, Lincoln avenue, Long
Branch, fourteen cases OF whisky.
Britton's Pharmacy, Long Branch
fourteen cases.
H. Weissman. 3s7 Springfield avenue,
Newark, one case of whisky and one
barrel of whisky
C. ]. Schudde. 52s Central avenue,
Newark. one barrel of whisky.
Paramount Pharmacy. 266 Orange
avenue. Newark. one barrel OF whisky.
Belmont Pharmacy, 3 Belmont ave-
nue.. Newark, one barrel OF whisky.
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