Evening star., 1926-03-15
Jury |ND|CTS III
|NRUM CONSPIRACY
INVOLVING 12C|T|ES
Motley Group From Million
aires to Truck Drivers
Accused at Cleveland.
1865 VIOLATIONS ALLEGED
IN 40,0O0-WORD REPORT
"a Already Under Arrest-Plot
Declared to Have Been Launched
in Philadelphia.

Py the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. March 15.-An
Indictment naming 112 persons in an
alleged bootleg alcohol conspiracy was
returned by the Federal grand jury
here TODAY The document probably
the longest ever returned by Fed
eral grand jury. charges l6o overt
acts and includes millionaires. real
estate men. manufacturers. railroad
employees, warehouse men, Govern
rent employees and bootleggers in l.
cities. 1t contains 1913 typewriter
IA ses or about 40 900 words.
F'orty.six of those indicted are from
St. Paul. u from Cleveland Is from
Duluth 10 from Philadelphia. each
from Chicago and Minneapolis, from
San Jose and San Francisco. from
Pittsburgh and each from Detroit,
Eoston and Providence. X. l. TheN
ore charged with conspirinG to violate
the national prohibition laws by deal
ins in. hauling and storing Illicit al
cohol.
List Of Those Indicted.
Those indicted are:
St. Paul-Reniamin Gleeman. Harry
Gelman. Morris Roisner, Nathan
Rader. Samuel Harris. Abe Ginsberg.
Morris Miller. Thomas Weber and
Benjamin Weiss, alleged operators of
the Twin cities Million Dollar Syndi-
cate: George Hurley. Robert Walsh,
Ralph Jellick and Harry Schaeffer.
employees of the syndicate; Leon Gleck-
man, Louis Roisner, Harry Bern
stein, Jack Gleckman and Samuel
Gleckman, Abe Gleeman, Nathan Glee
man, Morris Zuken. Al Wendes A.
Saxon, Saxon, Norris Goldberg. Louis
Banks and Thomas Banks. said to be
hootleggers; Thomas A. Brown. city
detective; John NJ. Sell. Charles F..
Iodbell. Ernest f. Moore and Earl
s. Hansen. warehousemen and trans
fer company operators; Julius Michel
and H. Geery. garage owners; James
Campion. Fred Shafer. David Michaud
and Andrew Windish, truck drivers:
81 muel kroman, law partner of Abe
Ginsberg, and George Stracey. f. A.
Gilhreath, Grant Mason. Earl LsaO Otto.
John w. Oman, Alexander T. McCool
and Edmund G. Coy. railroad en-
ployes.
Phiiadelphia-Be Benjamin. and Frank
Fogel and Benjamin and David Ger.
sonstein and Albert Haimowitz.
Charles Schwartz. Herman Fuererstein
and Nathan Sawinski. alleged part
ners in dealing in distilled liquors:
Joseph Pomerance. real estate man
and alleged bootlegger. and DIR. James
Silherstein, dentist. alleged associate
Of his brother Ed Silberstein. Cleve-
land. head Of the Superior Industrial
Alcohol Co.
Revenue Employees Named.
Duluth-Eli Hart. manager of the
Hart Transfer & Storage Co. and Will
liam McKinnon. his employe: Harry
Boehl, proprietor of trucking bust
ness: Charles Banack. Harvey Grand
maison. Roy Gruper. John Patton.
James Selleck and Robert Westaway,
drivers. and Mike Atol. Harry Shmule-
witz. Samuel Paul, julius Paul. Theo-
dore Furlund and Edward l.. Birdie.
alleged customers of THE Syndicate"
C'hicag ago-Charles Grosscurth. Robert
Alvworth. AL SquireS and Jack Green.
operators Of the !. r. SChuer Co, and
Frank Fennel. railroad employe.
A1innea polis-!ohn Esher. super
intendent, Skellet Warehouse Co.;
Carmille and Homer Legacy. garage
owners. and Isadore and Joseph
Woke, proprietors. transfer company.
San Jose and San Francisco-R. de
Luca. Emmanuel Maffey. V. n. Sill
vas and Elderic de Luca. alleged
dealers in Illicit alcohol.
Providence. K. I.-Harry Noluse. al
legged dealer in Illicit alcohol Also
and other cities.
Detroit-Leslie r. Horn. head of
warehouse company.
Boston-William NJ. Loveioy. sup
erintendent. storage company.
Pittsburgh-Harry F'ishman, Sam
uel Goldberg and Morris Schultz. al
legged dealers.
Clevela nd-t,d Silberstein. alias Wal
ter J. Gillen; Walter Engasser, David
John Martino. Benny Miller, James
Fisher and Camille Peterson. officers
and employees Superior Industrial
Alcohol Co: Edward Samuel, alleged
customer: Norris Cheonoff general
manager Prospect Refining and Chem
ical Co: Charles f. Cummings. Ulysses
s. Shank and Alfred A Oertel. en-
ployes Internal Revenue Department;
Ernest Flynn. Andre |. kitko and
John Stauber. raidroad employees; Sam
Kessler, trucker; Ralph G. Curtis,
Mike Sweeney and Frank Sweeney,
transfer company officers.
~ .ilready Under Arrest.
Many of those indicted are also
known hv many aliases.
Seventy-four arrests had been made
when the indictment was returned.
OF these. 60 were named in the indict-
ment.
The alleged conspiracy. the indict.
ment charges. was originated in Phil
adelrhia by Benjamin and Frank
Fogel and Benjamin and David Ger
sonstein. reputed millionaire bootleg
gers. These men. the true hill charges.
orga anized three Cleveland companies
which We're to he the concentra ton
and distribution sources of the con.
trahand supply of pure grain alcohol.
The alleged operation cover the pe-
riod from April /, 1928. to February
l6. 1926.
The compa nies were formed. the in
dictment charges. and thorough falsi-
fica tion of records pure grain alcohol
manufactured or bought for denatur-
ing purposes. under a Government
permit, actually was diverted into