Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
EXPECTS RUM RING
SUSPECTS TO YIELD
New Jersey Dry Administra.
tor Says 3 Believed to Be
Leaders Will Surrender.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. October 19.-Surrender
of AL and william Lillien and James
Murphy. alleged chief flnanciers and
directors of the big rum syndicate
which was smashed Wednesday in ST.
multaneous raids along the New Jersey
and Long Island coasts and at other
points, Is expected by the Federal au-
thorities, 1t was announced today in
Newark by William j. Calhoun, prohibi-
ton administrator for New Jersey.
These three are reported in Canada.
Murphy is said to have directed the
movements Of the feet of rum boats
maintained by the syndicate. The Lii
liens are alleged to have superintendent
operations generally from the business"
once at Is West Forty-third street, New
York. and from the deliberately equipped
and armed base of activities at Atlantic
Highlands, N. j. All three are under
Federal indictment In New Jersey on
charges Of conspiring to smuggle liquor
into the United States. Mr.. Calhoun
did not indicate whether the expecta.
ton of surrender was based on word
sent by the fugitives or their friends.
Confers with Prosecutor.
Mr. Calhoun came to New York today
to confer and compare notes with ROE
ert B. Watts, assistant United States ate
torney. Both are in possession Of doc
uments seized in the raids in which 80
men were arrested. Since each had re.
ceived important leads from these docu-
ments and believed the evidence could
be followed more effectively II all the
records were before both of them, they
decided to hold q conference. Mr.. CAL
houn said more evidence had been adj
duced on the basis Of which several new
arrests would be made shortly. He said
the additional prisoners would prove to
be big men" in the syndicate.
Another instance of some of the con-
fusion resulting from the fact that Fed.
eral inquiries have been carried on in
three jurisdictions with differing sets of
evidence, in Brooklyn, in Manhattan
and in New Jersey, developed today
when Mr.. Calhoun said he had no evi-
dence involving bankers, public officials
or lawyers.
Mr.. Calhoun, the previous day, had
said the black book" seized at Atlantic
Highlands recorded payments of $50 900
week for protection and that nota-
tons involved certain public officials.
The intimation was made that q New
Jersey mayor and q police chief in that
state we're implicated. However, this
charge was nothing unusual, for on the
night of the raids the authorities made
known that the gang had placed q
member in the Coast Guard Service as
q spy on the Government. Mr.. Call
houn took occasion the next day to deny
this report.
Will Push Bank Inquiry.
Mr.. Watts persisted in saying there
was reason to pursue the inquiry to de-
termine whether any banks actually
hnAnRRd rHaKvH Rsfn hA tfAWN
of which Melted a profit of 50 ,0O0, 900 in
six months. He said he had good rea-
son to believe the band had tie advice
Of certain New York lawyers in Its
activities. Records have been found
of deposits by the syndicate in seven
banks. James E. Wilkinson, assistant
United States attorney in Brooklyn,
has gone so far as to say he believed
certain banks financed the operations in
some measure.
One bank. 1t has been revealed, per.
mitted the syndicate to make deposits
under q code name. Its records have
been subpoenaed. This XII" code bank
book is in Mr.. Calhoun's possession.
One OF the seven accounts carried by
the syndicate or men believed to be
members Of the gang, he said, was in
the Federal Trust Co., Newark, and an
other in the Bank of America, New
1OTk, he SalO accounts IN TWO new
Jersey and two New York banks had
been subpoenaed and added he was
convinced none of the banks carrying
the syndicate's accounts was aware OF
the rings business or supplied its
finances.
He confirmed the announcem mt OF
Mr.. wilkinson that the papers seized
included q check Of 81 500 bearing the
name Of AL Capone, Chicago gang lead
er, now In a Philadelphia jail, indicat.
ing the possibility Capone was involved
in some way in the syndicates business
| Payment on the check had been stop.
| ped. 1t was issued to one Of the syn
dictate members.
kidnapping Link Unbound.
| Philip Forman, United States attor-
! ney for New Jersey. said today in Tren-
! ton that he knew of no evidence link
! ing the syndicate with the kidna ping
some months ago of willard H. Elliott
then vice president OF the Hobart Trust
| Co. of PassAic. who reported later he
had been abducted by men who de.
| scribed themselves as Chicago gunner
Elliott's theory was that he had beer
kidnapped because he knew too much.
In Paterson, James M. Dunn. assist
ant prosecutor of Passaic County, ad.
mitted today that he expected to have
talk with Department Of Justice
agents to investigate the report of A
connection between the syndicate anc
kidnapping.
(Copyright. 1927