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n CONnELL AND IS.
OTHERS INDICTED.
Grand Jury Says S1O,OOO,OOO
~ - in Liquor Involved
BHENC WARRANTS ASKED
Accused Will Be Given Reasonable
Time to Give Themselves Up-Mc
ConneII is in Florida.

Accused VIII BE OlSeH heaeo0'>
Time to Give Themselves up-Me
ConneII is in Florida.
Philadelphia, March 25.-Formel
State Prohibition Director William =
Cunutu and fUrty-siN other men were
indicted by the federal grand jury
charged with conspiracy i'll connection
with violations OF the EOlstead act.
Among the other indicted were Sam
uel B. Wolfe, former assistant state
prohibition director; Albert +. Slater
former secretary to Mcconnell Hiram
Benner former chief clerk iii charge
of permits; Jacob Slonaker, former
field agent in charge OF enforcement
Samuel Singer, alleged king OF the
Bootleg Ring" and Harvey Smith
right-hand man of State Treasurer
Snyder, in Schuylkill county.
The grand jury's Indictment, docu
ment of nineteen pages, charges the
former director. his assistant i'll west
ern PENNSYLVANIA. Major Samuel b
Lewis. and the others with criminal
conspiracy to defraud the L. S. govern
ment by illegally Withdrawing whisky
from bonded Warehouses, The valUt
of iilp liquor involved is estimated al
$1,000 coo.
The mcn Indicted, besides those al,
ready nAmed, follow:
Samuel Blumberg. Singers reputeG
partner: Robert McCarter, bother
Emanuel Bookbinder, cafe owner; Lee
KernS, John Kerns.
Robert +. Williams, Joseph Rosen
Morris Saulositz. Abe Fierman, Ben
Fierman. Adolph Sthroenburn, A. }
Cast. Jacob l.. Williams.
Charles HamOvitz, Simon Friedman
l.. \. Won Minden, Robert J. GOttfried
John Dougherty. Harry c. DAILY, John
De Garlaya. Anthony EccOlito, William
l.. Edwards, Martin McGrail.
Joseph +. Branagan, Jacob SlOno
Wiz, Teter Robin, Thomas Callg
George G. Thomas, .Iustus Nolk, VII
liam l.. Rohay. George keator, Max +
Pochapin. Harry Pariser, George Beck
\ statement by the grand jury, giveI
through the foreman, ]. Herman Barn
tIey. follows:
The grand jury has directed me "a
its foreman to present at this time, IL
addition to the formal preSentmen1
which has been made. this supplement
tai report.
In Justice to ourselves, in justice t
the court, and to the district attorney
and in order to make 81 'ar to the pub
lie generally, the grand jury has asked
me to present this report signed b!
each member of the grand jury:
Il. We have made a thorough in
veSti%ation.
so. We have had presented to US al
the information which the government
has been able to unearth after an in
vCs t"ation covering the previous sly
| (A0nthS.
'3. We have called before US Mr.. A
| Nichols. head of the intelligence unit
| whose bureau has had this inyestiga
| ion in charge during all this time
also those of his assistants, including
Mr., Luca and Mr.. Wilson, who have
been almost exclusively engaged in In
veStigating this case. We have calico
Mr.. A. Hearle, now connected with the
prohibition office, who, from the be
ginning, investigated this case, espe
cially the inside of the prohibition dl
rect0r's office during the tenure of Di
rector Mcconnell. We have had be
fore us representatives of the custom:
department, who have also made al
investigation of certain angles of TIL:
case. We have had before us and ex
amined many witnesses, in fact, all the
witnesses who were thought to know
ANYTHING about this investigation.
'"The various government agencie:
have laid the whole situation before
us; they have done this willingly ant
| we have made returns against ever!
one whom the testimony involved with
out fear or favor.
q Our investigation has gone or
from the beginning without any inter
| ference of any kind, or a desire to in
telfere, and we have received the helI
| and assistance of the district attor
ney's office, not only in the beginning
of our investigation, bit Throughout
the whole of the investiga ticn.
-. The grand jury desires to pub
Ecly thank District Attorney GeOrgt
W. Coles for the very mathOdical ant
| efficient way in which he has present
! EIDE the work to us, not only during the
| time we were passing under the vari
| Gus other indictments prior to thi:
particular investigation. but during the
whole of this particular investigation.
As soon as the bill of indictmen
! had been turned in Assistant United
| States Attorney Truman d. Wade
arose with 4 motion that "all those
who have not been unprecedented or arr
now eat Of the state" be reached witt
! bench warrants.
This was aimed directly at forme,
| Director Mcdonnell. who is in Florida
recovering from recent nervOu:
| breakdown, which his friends attribute
| in part to the disclosures recently .matlt
| in connection with his administration
At first Judge Thompson demurrede
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