Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-19
ALLEGED BUCKET
SHOP" RAID STAGED;
|. THREE UNDER BOND
Files of Perry & Co., Brokers,
Searched After Complaint
by Brazil Consul.
WARRANTS ARE ISSUED
FOR FIVE ALTOGETHER
Assistant U. S. Attorney Gallagher
Orders Clerical Staff Released
After Brief Questioning.

| oil deputy united states marShalS and
| headquarters detectives under Assistant
United States Attorney william Gal
lagher late yesterday raided the Perry
& Co. brokerage establishment in the
Washington Building.
| One man. Maurice Edrich. who said
| he was a salesman, was arrested and
released on $4,000 bond by United
| States Commissioner Turnage. and the
firms files were seized. Two girl
clerks, girl telephone operator and
| two male Office employees were ques-
toned briefly and allowed to leave the
establishment.
Fred Langhorst and Norman Genera
were surrendered to Commissioner
! Turnage this morning by their attorney,
Frank Sprague Perry. Both pleaded
not guilty and were released after they
had posted $4,000 each for appearance
before the commissioner at 10 am. July
! 25 Edrich will appear before Turnage
at the same time.
Other Men Desired Not Found.
Other men named in the warrants
| who were not found in the Perry Co.
Offices at the time of the raid yester-
| day, but who are being sought today
| by the police, are: W. l.. Perry, Ivan
Fuller and person known only as
Allen.
The warrants were sworn out before
Commissioner Turnage on the COM
plant of P. Nabuco de Abreu, Brazilian
| consul at Norfolk, Va, who charges he
received correspondence from the local
| firm in connection with the alleged pur-
chase and sale of 40 shares of United
Gas stock. Specifically, the warrants
| charged conspiracy to violate sections
869A, 869B and 869C of the District
CODE which cover the charge of con-
| A-I. lr0ASr
a stock transaction.
Following his arrest Edrich was ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Needham c.. Turnage. He pleaded
not guilty and his bond was fixed at
$4,000 He was committed to the Dis
trict Jail and and was released on bail
late last night.
The raiding party which swooped
down upon the fiye-room suite in mid
afternoon yesterday was accompanied
b. Louis Rothschild, director of the
Better Business Bureau, to whom De
Abreu, the Brazilian consul, appealed
when he suspected the Perry company,
with which he had entered into the
United Gas stock transaction. The
raiding officers included Gus Cerimele,
Harry Allen, Harold Scott, Clarence
Swami and Thomas East, all deputy
United States marshals and Harry K.
10
D. G. headquarters detectives.
The raiders met by appointment at
the New York avenue entrance to the
Washington Building. Before going to
the Perry Co. offices on the fifth floor,
however, Gallagher and Rothschild
stepped into the Postal Telegraph Co.
Office on the ground floor to telephone
the concern in an effort to determine
whether the men whose names ap-
peared on the warrants were in the
Perry suite at that time.
RothschiId Telephones Firm.
Rothschild made the call in his own
name, asking first for Mr.. Perry, then
for Fuller, Genera and Langhorst. AS
he was told, one by one. that the men
he sought were not in, Rothschild nod
ded negatively to Mr.. Gallagher, who
sat at his side.
We'll, this is Mr. Rothschild of the
Better Business Bureau speaking /
wanted to talk with the members Of the
firm about complaint we have re-
ceiyed from man in North Carolina"
the Better Business Bureau director ex-
planned. Who are you?"
After brief silence, during which
the Perry Co. end of the line was speak
ing, Rothschild asked:
Your name is johnson, Ell? Are you
member of the firm?"
Another brief silence and RothschiId
answered:
"Oh, you're just an employee, Ell?
Well, want to come up and see you
anyway"
After the interval, In which "Mr.
Johnson" was speaking, Rothschild said:
so 1t won't do me any good to come
up, you say? Well, it won't do me any
harm either, will it?''
Another interval and Rothschild re-
piled:
"Oh, you'll throw me out If I come
up, you say? Well, I'll be right up.
Good-bye!"
Turning to Gallagher, Rothschild ex-
planned:
HE says if I come UP he'll throw
me out He says he Is Mr. johnson,
an employe, and that the firm members
are not there"
Arrest Man Leaving Office.
Lets go up!" Gallagher decided. and
with that he and RothSchild, accompa.-
MED by the squad of officers, entered
the elevator for the fifth floor Just
as they turned the corridor to approach
the Perry Co. suite a man walked out
OF the Perry Co. Office door. He was
placed under arrest and declared he was
Enrich. Stationing men at each of the
five doors to the suite, Gallagher, ac-
companied by Rothschild and arresting
officers, entered the main door to the
suite They found two girl clerks in a
well appointed reception Office. From
that room they entered another lux
uriously appointed Office behind which
were three plainly furnished rooms. In
the first of the rear three offices was
a telephone switchboard, presided over
by a girl operator, and in the last of
these rooms was the boiler factory
the battery of telephones over which,
the raiders charge, the firm conducted
most of its business with residents of
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and
North Carolina towns and cities.
The raiders began systematic search
of the offices, going through every desk
and filing case in the establishment.
On desk in the handsome inner office
was found a calendar memorandum
pad on which was written the name OF
the fictitious North Carolina resident
Rothschild had claimed he represented.
With the notation was'a memorandum
refused" and the name johnson" was
jotted down alongside the note.
Girls Are Questioned.
Mr.. Gallagher questioned the girl
employees briefly and announced Tor
them that they had been employed re-
Gently through an employment agency
and knew nothing of the nature OF the
firms transactions. He took their names
and addresses SO that he might commu-
nicate with them later and permitted
them to go home The girls told Gala
cher that their salary was due them
yesterday.
Asked if they would recognize MEM
bers of the firm, the girls replied that
they would and told Gallagher that the
firm members had been in the offices
just few minutes before the raiders
entered.
The raid was conducted quietly and
was unapparent to the hundreds OF