Evening star., 1925-09-16
DRUG PLANT SALE
FALSE, SAYS BAKER
JuneS Case Witness Tells of
AffidavitS Used in Liquor
Withdrawal.
snecial Disnatch TO The Star.

subsequent rGAR by caro- to Jesse
and Charles Baker were introduced
this morning when the trial of the
Jones brothers. Caro-, ISador Glasser
and Simon Kellner, charged with H.
legal diversion of alcohol. was resumed
In United States Court
The affidaVits were the originals
filed with the collector of internal rev.
enue here and prohibition authorities
IN obtaining permits for the with
drawal of alcohol in the manufacture
or toilet articles and hair tonics. Jesse
G. Baker, whose address was given as
612 Fl street northwest, Washington,
identified the affidavits and said they
were false. He said he signed them,
knowing they We're false.
Tells of Meeting in ID. c.
Baker told of an attempt TO shake
down" the JoneSes through a Wash
ington man. named Packard" Follow
ing n visit of Thomas Nolan, agent
of the Internal Revenue, he said. a
discrepancy in the books of the drug
company amounting to over 100 gal
Ions was discovered. He went to
William Cohen, manager, and told him
that Packard" could reach the agent
and nothing would be said He de-
clared Nolan knew nothing of this.
He said $500 was given Packard" to
fix Nolan, but Nolan received nothing
and Packard has not been seen
since.
According to an affidavit filed Sep
tember 2l, 1924, NJ. II. Caro- of Wash
ington was represented as the active
manager, sales director and sole owner
of the drug company. On September
30, 1924, another affidavit showing the
sale of the business to Jesse and
Charles Baker for $4,000 by Caro- was
shown, but no money was paid and
the stock was fictitious, the witness
said. He said he and his brother con-
tinued as the owners and officers until
February II, 1925. when n. T. Jones
sent for him in Washington.
He was told, he said, that the
Department of Justice officials were
on his track and he was told he had
better leave Baltimore. He went 10
Boston and remained there until the
drug plant was raided last March
and he was summoned before the
grand jury.
Milton Summers of Baltimore,
shipping clerk of the firm, and Jesse
N. Baker of 612 II street Washing
ton, manager, were the principal
Government witnesses yesterday
Summers had been granted immunity
by the district attorney and Baker,
with his brother, Charles Baker, and
William Cohen, pleaded guilty.
Summers testified that part Of his
work was to scrape off the serial
numbers on alcohol barrels sold to
bottleggers so that the company
could not be implicated if the bar
rels were seized. His testimony was
submitted apparently to connect Win
field and Neufeld T. Jones, Wash
ington, brothers. with the operation
of the Maryland Drug and Chemical
Co, which was raided by prohibition
agents on March last.
Summers said he was first hired by
Cohen at SIS a week. and later at $50
week by the Joneses, who came over
from Washington and summoned him
to their hotel, where he was told they
were taking over the business and told
him to make the business bullet
proof he stated. According to Sum-
mers, Neufeld Jones would come to
Baltimore from Washington frequent
ly. and on these occasions demanded
money from Cohen, who was running
the business.
Offered Better Job.
Baker testified that he was working
for the Caro- F'lavoring Co, at 610
Pennsylvania avenue, when he was in
troduced to Cohen, who promised him
better job If he would come to Balti-
more. Shortly afterward. he said, he
to Baltimore and he was taken to the
plant at "A South Charles street and
told his salary would be $50 week as
manager. He said he believed the firm
was going to make toilet and hair
tonic preparations, and did not know
anything was wrong until several
weeks later when he went to the
vault where the barrels of alcohol were
kept and found it almost empty.
n al
he said, Cohen told him it was all
right and that the alcohol had been
sold. Later he testified he was told to
see that the serial numbers We're
scraped from the barrels as soon as
received from the Government ware
. house.
Since the raid he said he had been
working for Mrs. Dora Glasser, the
wife of one of the defendants, who
ran a gas station in Washington.
Burton A. Thisse!l, assistant man
ager of the Washington Hotel, was
called and produced the register
sheets of the hotel from July 10, 1924.
to April %. 1925, showing that n. T.
Jones had been a guest at the hotel
for different periods during that time
and told of the long-diStance calls
made by Jones to the company s
office here and to Atlanta, Philadel-
phia, Atlantic City, New York City
and Brooklyn. Jones, according to
the phone record, called the Mary
land Drug Co. or Cohen's residence in
Baltimore almost every day while
stopping at the hotel.
William c. Dockhorn. cashier of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., pro,
duced records of the company showing
where over $1,000 had been sent by
telegraph to the Caro- company In
Washington by Cohen, and $3.50 had
been sent to Summers from Washing
ton by Jack Levy" which District
Attorney Woodcock said was the alias
of Isadore Glasser.
Louise s. Gottlieb, who described
himself as Washington business man
told the jury he was brought to Bal
timore. by the Jones brothers, who
tried to interest him in the concern
but he refused to participate in any
business dealings with them.
The register of the Southern Hotel
of Baltimore was produced and Dis
trict Attorney Woodcock showed
where n. T. Jones had registered un.
February II this year, and under the
name of Andrew Quick on March
u. Mr.. Woodcock declared 1t was
shown that n. T. Jones was the party
occupying both rooms by the records
of the telephone clerk which showed
calls for the office of the Maryland
Drug Co.. and for Cohen and on both
of them the name Jones' was first
given and later erased for Small
and Quick"
Robert Carman, one of the defense
attorneys, announced that Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon, Internal Reve.
nue. Commissioner Blair and Prohibit
ton Commissioner Haynes had agreed
to testify If needed. He would not call
them, he said, If his other witnesses