Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-13
TRIAL Of CON {
] |SPOSTPONED
South Amboy Associate OF
Former Dry Raider Convic-
ted in Federal Court
ON BRIBERY CHARGES
Cone Will Go On Trial Next
Monday on Similar Charges
in Court at Trenton
ON BRIBERY CHARGES

TRENTON, Sept. 13:-Trial of
Samille H. Cone, of South Amboy,
former chief of the Federal Prohib-
ition staff of New Jersey. on charge
of giving bribe to federal prohib-
ition agents, was postponed until
next Monday by Judge Lynch in
federal court this morning when
counsel for the defense withdrew.
The trial was to have peen made
on a Joint indictment involving Cone
Edwin Scully, former government
truck driver, and Dave Wolfson,
Perth Amboy saloonkeeper. Upon
appearing before Judge Lynch when
court opened Scully retracted plea
of not guilty and entered a plea of
guilty. Wolfson had previously re-
tracted a plea of not guilty. Fol
lowing Scully's admission of guilty.
counsel for the defense threw up
the case.
Cone who is now unGer $1,000
BAH on a convection of bribery Sc
cured against him in federal court
in Newark recently, is under SIX in
dictments involving North Jersey
saloonkeepers. Scully, his associate
in the alleged Wolfson bribery case
ASas convicted on a similar charge
federal court here yesterday.
The specific indictment on which
leone and Scully were to have been
tried today involved a transaction of
the two with Wolfson, whereby
Cone and Scully were to secure the
suppression of evidence collected
against the saloonkeeper by Wilbert
u. Dey and Milton b. Swackhammer,
federal prohibition enforcement
agents.
CON { upon his dismissal from the
prohibition force last December, is
said to have made every effort TO
secure the aid of the two prohibition
agents in a big scheme to shake
down Isaloonkeepers in North Jer-
sey. The method outlined by Cone
was to use the agents in making
raids without a warrant, then frigh-
ten his victims into paying hush"
money, it is said.
ed by a jury in the Federal
Court here yesterday of bribing Off
GERS of the government. The trial
tooA place before Federal Judge
Lynch, the government being repre-
sented by Assistant District Attorney
Walter d. Van Ripper. Scully it was
charged offered bribes to Wilbert b.
Dey and Milton B. Swackhammer,
federal prohibition agents.
Samille H. Cone, of South Am
boy, former chief prohibition en-
forcement agent in this state, with
whom Scully was associated when
Cone was a government agent is on
trial today on another indictment in
which he and Scully are charged
Jointly with holding up alleged pro-
hibition violators. This is the Sec
ond charge under which Mr.. Cone
has been tried, the first being in June
when he was convicted by jury In
Newark on the charge of bribery
II is understood that Mr.. Cone will
he sentenced as a result of the first
conviction on September II.
Evidence brought out in the Scully
trial yesterday was to the effect that
seFederal Agents, Dey and Swack-
iamer on various raids in which
Scully was employed to remove the
seized liquor to the government
warehouse in Newark, he suggested
that Cone would shake &own the
proprietor himself. The specific
charge involved in the indictment
was that Scully following a seizure,
had obtained $50 from Samuel Nc
Alindin, proprietor of a saloon at
Milltown, and that the money had
been divided between Scully, Dey
and Swackhamer.
The defense claimed that Dey and
Swackhamer had been instructed by
the prohibition director to get Scully
at any cost.
Scully was represented by Thomas
Brown, Walter j. Rielley, of this
city and George 2. Cutley of Jer-
sey City.
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