San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-08
TRIO INDICTED
FOR ATTEMPTS
To PAY BRIDES
Tried to Pay Daugherty
and Others $65,000
for Immunity.
MEANS IS AMONG THREE
Convicted Men Are Chief
Compliments in SEN
sational Case.

New York, March S.-A federal
grand jury Friday indicted three per-
sons for obstructing justice and at
tempting, for a price of $4,000, to
bride United States Attorney General
Daugherty and other government
prosecutors to protect men who since
have been sentenced for using the
mails in q fraud which netted S175,-
900.
Those indicted were Thomas =. Eel
der, head of a well known law firm,
defense counsel in several bootleg
agent of the department of justice,
and Elmer Jarnecke, secretary to
Means.
Means, Jarenecke and nine others
were indicted last October for using
the mails to defraud and engaging in
q conspiracy through which d. cases
and 1000 barrels of whiskey were
removed from licensed distillers and
diverted to bootleg channels. Fielder
is Means attorney in this case.
The indictments charge the trio
with having received $4,000 from Of
ficers of the Crager System, Inc,
and the Glass Casket Company of
Altoona, Pa, of whom seventeen
since have been sentenced for obtain
ing $4,000 i'll an alleged fake stock
promotion conducted through the
mails.
Tried to Bride Others.
Those besides Attorney General
Daugherty whom the accused are all
legged 10 have promised TO bride in
clude United States District Attor-
ney Hayward and two of his assist
ants. John Holley Clark Jr. and Peter
]. Mccoy.
The chief compliments against the
indicted trio were Samuel Safir and
others of the Crager System and Glass
Casket Company, who were sentenced
to terms ranging from day to two
and one-half years in federal and
county institutions, after 40 persons
indicted with them had been acquitted
or charges against them dismissed.
Safir has not been sent to prison and
his conviction is under appeal.
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 thai 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 brokers
TO continue selling stock through the
mails without further molestation.
Met i'm Washington.
In October, 1922, according to the
indictments, Jarencke. Safir and
Henry Siedman. one Of the brokers.
since convicted, met at the New Will
lard Hotel in Washington to discuss
ways and means of conducting the UNI
lawful and felonious conspiracy"
They came to the Vanderbilt Hotel
in New York City the next day, it is
charged. and were aided in perfect
ing their plans by Fielder and Samuel
Rosenblatt, a Chicago attorney, who
was sentenced with Glass Casket Com
pany officials.
1t is charged that on the day of
the Washington meeting Jarencke re-
ceived $4,000 by telegraph from 1sa-
dore d. Padorr, at Chicago, to be
used as bride money.
Another installment Of S47,s00 of
the bride money is alleged to have
been paid by Rosenblatt, Safir and
Joseph o. Kostner. Safir's attorney. to
Felder's law partners in New York
late in October. Then, early in No
vember. Means and Jarnecke received
$500 from Rosenblattt, also for brib-
cry purposes, the indictments set
forth,