Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
PERFUME.
PLOT CHARGED TO21.
Jury Also Reports Attempt
to Send Disinfectant Here
for Making Gin.

Conspiracy to violate the national
prohibition act through the transpor-
tation of potable alcohol" is charged
in two indictments reported today by
the District Supreme Court grand jury
against Philadelphia and Washington
merchants and alleged bootleggers.
The charge is made that in one case
a large quantity of perfume was
brought from Philadelphia to Wash
ington and sold to men. who operated
still, and in turn sold the distilled
alcohol to two alleged bootleegers, who
are said to have made synthetic gin
and retailed the product.
In the other case an attempt Is said
to have been made to transport to
Washington ID barrels Of disinfectant
and deodoriZer, containing 80 per cent
of alcohol which was to reach the
consumer through the same channels.
After the cargo had been loaded on
trucks, 1t Is reported, the trucks were
seized IN Philadelphia.
Two Indictments Name 81.
Involved in the alleged conspiracy to
bring the disinfectant to Washington
are Jacob Goldstein, who Is said to
trade under the name of the Garwood
Co., in Philadelphia Nathan Glanzberg,
James Kanter, Robert King, Harry
Kushner and Robert Simpson, all OF
Washington. Twenty-one persons are
named in the other indictment dealing
with the perfume, chief among whom
are Goldstein, Kushner, Milton Lerner,
Belle Behrens, Louis F. Behrens, Carl
Smith and Marion Smith. The others
are charged with aiding In the alleged
conspiracy.
The perfume" indictment alleges the
transportation of liquids from which
alcohol was to be extracted by distilla-
ton and was to be sold through alleged
bootleggers to the retail trade as syn
thetic GIN Goldstein, it is stated, pur-
chased large quantity of perfume con-
tanning a large percentage of alcohol
and stored 1t at Camden, N. j., whence
it was brought to Washington and
placed in a local storage plant, from
which it is said to have been withdrawn
by Kushner and Lerner, who are said
to have operated still at 1901 Eight
zenith street, according to Assistant
United States Attorney Irwin Goldstein,
who presented the cases to the grand
Jury. From this alleged still the alcohol
was sold to Belle BehrenS and her hus-
band Louis and to Carl Smith and his
wife Marion, it Is alleged, who are sup
posed to have used the alcohol for the
retail trade.
Accused in Perfume Case.
Those named In the perfume" indict-
ment include: Jacob Goldstein, alias
Jack Goldstein; Charles English, Harry
Siegel, James Kanter,t Robert King,
alias Ralph King, alias r. King, alias
Richard King; Robert Simpson, Milton
Lerner, alias Milton j. Lerner, alias Jake
Lerner, alias Albert Kahn, alias Harry
Friedman; Harry kushner, alias H. Gus
ner, alias Ben Cushman, alias Meredith
D. Palmer; Dora Kushner, alias Mrs.
Ben Cushman; James Clarence Clarke,
alias James p. Clark, alias Paul Clark,
alias Frank Harrington, alias Frink
Harrington, alias Paul Allen, alias Frank
Arlington; Lila Clarke, alias Lillian
Harrington, alias Lillian Engle, alias
Mrs. M. Long, alias Francis Polly; Max
Sklar, alias Max Singer; Carl Smith,
alias Dolly Smith, alias Frank G.
Smith, alias Gilbert Falcone; Marion
Smith, alias Mrs. Marie Harris, alias
Ethel Smith, alias Mrs. Gilbert Falcone;
Hardee Wilson Barham, Belle A. Ben
rens, alias Anna B. Calhoun, alias
Belle A. West, alias Daisy Gamble, alias
Mrs John w. Fowler. alias Mrs. e. j.
Figart; Louis Frederick Behrens, alias
John Behrens, alias Bunny Behrens,
alias John w. Fowler, alias E. j.
Figart; Russell Printz, alias Russell
Prince; Reginald Marion Mann, alias
Reggie Mann, alias Reginald Knott;
Ernest Jack Pirrone and Julius Sanders.