Evening star., 1924-03-08
TO BRIBE
DAUGHERTY CHARGED
Means and Two Others Indicted
by Federal Grand Jury
in New York.
ACCUSED IN TWO CASES
Attempts Alleged in Casket and
Liquor Frauds.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March S.---A federal
grand jury yesterday indicted three
persons for obstructing justice and
attempting, for a price of $65,Oo0, tc
bribe United States Attorney General
Daugherty and other government
prosecutors to protect men who since
have been sentenced for using the
mails in a fraud which netted SITS.
900.
Those indicted were Thomas B. Eel
der, head Of a well known law firm
defense counsel in several big boot
leg cases: CASTOR B. Means. a former
agent of the Department Of Justice
and Elmer Jarnecke, secretary to
Means.
Means, Jarnecke and nine others
were indicted last October for using
the mails to defraud and engage in a
conspiracy. through which $4,000
were removed from licensed distil-
leries and diverted into bootleg chan
nels. Fielder is Means attorney in
the case.
Today's indictments charge the trio
with having received $685. from
and the Glass Casket Company of AL
toona, Pa, of whom seventeen since
have been sentenced for obtaining
SITS 900 in an allegedly fake stock
promotion conducted through the
mails.
Alleged Bribe Efforts.
Those besides Attorney Genera
Daugherty whom the accused are al
legged to have promised to bribe in
clude United States District Attorney
HAYWARD and two of his assistants
John Holley Clark, jr., and Peter J
Mccoy.
The chief complainants against the
others Of the Crager system and
Glass Casket Company, who were
sentenced to terms ranging from a
day to two and ohe-half years In
federal and county institutions. after
forty persons indicted with them had
them dismissed. Safir has not been
sent to prison and his conviction Is
under appeal.
Promises to Sa6r.
In addition to promising Safir and
his co-conspirators immunity from
prosecution, Fielder, Means and jar
necke are charged with having prom
ised to obtain from Attorney General
Daugherty a letter stating that the
stock brokers' arrest was an error
to obtain for Safir ct al. certain bust
ness records the government officials
had seized and to enable the broker.
to continue selling stock through thu
mails without further molestation.
In October, 1922, according to the
indictments. Jarnecke:. saar ant
Henry Siedman, one of the brokers
since convicted, met at the New Will
lard Hotel in Washington, D. c.. tt
discuss ways and means of conduct
ing the unlawful and felonious con.
STsiracy.
They came to the Vanderbilt Hotel
in New York city, the next day, it i:
charged, and were aided in perfectinf
their plans by Fielder and Samue
Rosenblatt. a Chicago attorney, WHIT
was sentenced with Glass Casket Com.
pany officials.
Claim Receipt Of Bribe.
1t is charged that on the day of the
Washington meeting Jarnecke received
$4,000 by telegraph from Isidore D
Padorr. at Chicago, to be used as bribt
money.
Another installment of S47.so0 Of
the bribe money is alleged to have beer
paid by Rosenblatt. Safir and JOSEPH
o. Kostner, Safir's attorney, to Fielder.
tober. Then early in November Means
and Jarnecke received $500 from
Rosenblatt, also for bribery purposes
the indictments set forth.
It is charged further that Fielder
Means and Jarnecke represented t,
their alleged victims that the attorney
"had considerable influence and contro
over the actions and conduct of the
Attorney General Of the United States
and his subordinate in the New Yorl
district, and that the defendants alst
"conspired to represent that Fielder
was a secret partner in the practic'
of. law with the Attorney General o
the United States and that Means wa.
an officer and employe of the govern
ment occupying a position of impor
tance in the Department of Justice"