Evening star., 1932-08-07

tin box" When the Governor showed
no signs Of interest at the end of the
year, Sesbury decided to force him to
act He preferred formal charges
against the sheriff and informed the
Governor that Farley was not fit to
hold office. This was on December 80
85 days after the magical tin box
made the blaSe old town gasp and
chuckle. Newspapers urged the Gov
! ernor to remove Farley, but the Gov
| ernor was as responsive as the Sphinx.
On January 18, 1882, 104 davs after
| the advent of the glamorous tin box,
| four civic organizations asked for ac-
| tion on Seabury's charges. On Janu-
ary "a, 10 days after the Governor
read the amazing disclosures concern
| ing Farley. he asked him to reply to
the Seaburv charges within the week.
Meanwhile it was reported in high
/ Tammany circles that its leaders had
assurance that the Governor would
net remove Farley. The friends of the
Governor said that Seabury was trying
| to injure him, for the counsel to the
committee had preferred the charges
when the legislators had declined to
sponsor them. When the reports reach
ed the metropolis that the Governor
would not remove Farley, many of the
Governors well-wisherS became alarm
| ed. and a journalistic supporter edi-
| torially appealed to the Governor to
! show courage. He did-by denouncing
clergymen who urged him to action
Finally Ousted From Office.
Farley replied; then came a two-day
hearing and on February "a, 1882, the
14lst day of the First Year of the Tin
Box, Farley was removed from office
because of his inability to account for
$4,000 of his deposits during his
shrievalty. The Governor did not held
Farley to account for the professional
gambling that went on in the Tam
many clubhouse of the fourteenth as
sembly district or for other charges
| made by Seabury. Some friends of
Farley said the Governor had given him
the double-cross; few said it with
circumstance and detail.
After Farley resigned as czar Of the
cleaners and dyers the State attorney
general began an investigation of
charges Of intimidation made against
the Metropolitan by the Panken group
As the inquiry started, Louis Hurwitz
an organizer of a Manhattan subsidiary
of the Metropolitan, was arrested for
jumping his bail of $4,000 on an in
dictment filed against him in 1929,
charging him with coercing a dealer
into joining the milk group organized
by the notorious Larry Fay, with whom
the reader is acquainted.
1t was regarded as singular that Hur-
WITT should be an organizer in the
cleaning and dyeing industry, fer he
held an identical job under Fay. After
Hurwitz and other followers of Fay were
indicted, Sapiro began organizing the
Harlem and Bronx Milk Dealers Asso-
citation. Four directors in the Sapiro
organization had been members of the
Fay organization and were under indict-
ment when they became officers of the
Sapiro aggregation. Other satellites of
Fay also joined the Sapiro group. Sapiro
denied that Fay was interested in the
new organization. but he said many
tinnid dealers who had been members of
the Fay association were assured by
their indicted chief that he had no
objection to their joining the Sapiro
! organization.
Sapiro Quits as Counsel.
The Sapiro milk organization was as
sailed as a potential milk monopoly by
Frederick H Sexauer, president CT the
| Dalrymen's League, at the food con-
spiracieS inquiry conducted by Referee
John Holley Clark, jr.
While the resignation of Farley was
a hard blow to the majority group of
the cleaners end dyers, they suffered
another five weeks later when Sapiro
! withdrew as their counsel and arbiter
and departed fer Chicago, where he had
been suddenly summoned by a client.
| Sapiro declined to tell the public why
he had resigned; saying that he would
leave this task to his erstwhile client.
| The cleaners and dyers refused to pub
lish his letter of resignation.
In the cleaning and dyeing industry
the favorite device of the terrorists is tc
throw acid on the garments or into the
vats in which they are to be cleaned
| This sabotage represents but a small
loss to the cleaners, as they are merely
bailees, and are not responsible to the
/ unfortunate customers for loss of goods
/ intrusted to them, although few make
/ good these losses.
! Although a Chicago invention, the
! New York gangsters improved on it ir
the Spring and early Summer of 1922
! This was done by treating the clothes
| with an explosive substance, whose
| presence is detected when the garment
usually pair of trousers, is placed ir
the pressing machine of a small tailor
Some machines were destroyed, and, Of
course, there was little left of the gar
ment, and still less of the tailor's faith
in the law.
Chicago Mans Experience.
There was a tailor in Chicago named
Morris Becker who had unboundec
fntf fN1 hA To- Ifr hue
and he bought cleaning and dyeinl
plants and operated this own chain Of
stores. The racketeers asked him tt
join the Master Cleaners and Dyers
Association, pay the usual initiation fee
part with weekly share of his profit!
and raise his price for cleaning sui
of clothes from $3.50 to $3.50 He de-
clined. Then things began to happen
Becker went before a grand jury anC
said Sam Rubin, business agent of thu
association, told him he would have Il
raise prices, whereupon he replied
'The Constitution guarantees me thu
right to life, liberty and the pursuit o
happiness. To which, testified Becker
Sam Rubin replied: ITO he'll with th
Constitution. I'm a damned sight big
ger than the Constitution"
Three days later a dynamite boml
was thrown into Becker'S Office. TheI
another man called and told him h
would be bumped off" if he did no
raise prices. Followed another VIII
asked for $1,000 initiation fee. Rubil
and others accused by Becker were in
dicted. Clarence Darrow defende
them. They were freed. Becker di
some thinking. He recalled the sabot
age and the slugging of drivers. On
! unfortunate was beaten unconSciou
|, , and thrown back into the wagon on
: pile of garments. Then the racketeer
poured gasoline on the clothes an
! tossed lighted match on the inflam
: mable mass. And he recalled tn
: shootings and the throwing Of pine
apples"-a Chicago euphemism for
bomb; and he thought Of one who's
, life was the very embodiment OF It
; he'll with the Constitution" On Ma
:, 81, 1928, Becker announced to cit
. where law and order were empty catch
/ words that he had taken AL Capone q