Evening star., 1923-05-27
MORE TO Be TAKEN
IN DRY BR|BE CASE
Four Ohio Lawyers Accused
of Conspiracy Released
on $4,000 Bonds.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. May 26-More ar
rests may be made tomorrow in the
alleged conspiracy to violate the Vol
stead law and defraud the govern
ment through wholesale bribery.
United States Attorney A. f. Bern
steen said today after Fred Counts.
former prohibition agent here: his
brother. y. Frank Counts, Cleveland.
attorney; Joseph II. Shearer. former
Ohio prohibition director. and Samuel
A. Hoskins. Columbus attorney, had
been relea Sed on $4,000 bail each.
The four, all lawyers, were taken
before Federal Judge David c.
Westenhaver and formally charged
with two specific counts. based on
thirty-seven alleged over acts"
diversion conspiracy. in which Louis
and Abraham Auerbach and three
others pleaded guilty and We're SEN
fenced to Atlanta recently.
Sees Political Motive.
Politics, personal motives of Ven
geance against him because of his
impartial enforcement of the national
prohibition law, and spite work have
resulted in the charges against him,
Fred Counts declared. According to
the indictment, which was returned
secretly by the federal grand jury
Thursday, thousands of dollars were
paid by the Auerbach conspiracy
leaders through Intermediates to
Frank Counts and Hoskins.
Conspiracy, which carries with it
a possible penitentiary sentence, is
charged in both of the two counts in
the indictment returned against the
four men. HoSkins is charged in
specific acts contained in the indict-
ment with the alleged acceptance of
$1,700 at one time from Louis Auer-
bach through Samuel Rembrandt,
Cleveland attorney, now in Atlanta,
and S21,O00 from Auerbach through
another party at another time, this
money, it being charged. paid for OBJ
tanning permits for withdrawals OF
ethyl alcohol from a Cincinnati ware
house, which was used for purposes
in violation of the Vo1stead act.
Large Sums Named.
A. Frank Counts is charged with
receiving money from Louis Auerbach
at various times in the sums of $4,000,
$4,000 paid at the rate OF 100000 weekly
and $4,000.
Joseph H. Shearer. who, while he
was prohibition director for Ohio,
had deskroom in Hoskins' office, is
charged with obtaining permits for
withdrawal of ethyl alcohol by the
Auerbachs and otherwise aiding and
dbettlnS ana advising the conspiracy.
Fred Counts is Charged with re-
fusing and falling to prosecute the
Auerbachs. with receiving list of
the agents, employees and customers
of the Auerbachs so that he might
know who was to receive, protection
from liquor prosecutions. and with
removing records from the prohibi-
tion office in Cleveland when he re-
tired as agent in charge, which, it is
alleged, he later offered for sale to
the Auerbachs for $500 and later for
$3.50.
There are eighteen overt acts
charged in connection with the al
legged conspiracy in the first count
of the indictment, and nineteen overt
acts against one or the other parties
to the conspiracy in the second count
While it is alleged that approx
mately $4,000 was paid to A. Frank
Counts, and approximately $22.700 to
HoSkins by Louis Auerbach, there is
nothing in the indictments indicat-
ing that any money was passed either
Fred Counts or Shearer.