Evening star., 1936-02-14
j. U.S,SEEKS TOL|NK
S116,o)D TRANSFER
IN BOOTLEG CASE
Telegraph Money Orders, Al
IegedIy Sent to Barto-
Iozzi, Traced.
JERSEY PHONE OFFICIAL
TESTIFlES ON CALLS
Sale of Cars Under Scrutiny as
Evidence Designed to Convict
21 Is Presented.

Dozens Of telegraph money orders,
totaling $ll6,000, which allegedly were
sent to Arthur BartolozZi of Trenton,
N. j., in payment for alcohol ship
ments, were displayed before a Dis
trict Supreme Court jury today as the
Government sought to link 81 alleged
bootleggers with a huge liquor ring.
In most of the orders. BartoloZzi,
who is said to have supplied some
$4,000 of alcohol each week to the
distributing organization here, was de-
scribed as a dealer in fruits, vege-
tables and produce"
-Four Western Union employees told
Of proceedings on the average OF fiVe
money orders week, addressed to
Bartolozzi In each case the cash
brought into the telegraph office, To-
Gated at 1929 Connecticut avenue, was
about half in bills of small denomina-
tions and half in silver, which had
been counted and wrapped.
Identifies Money Bearers.
Charles E. Payne said the money
usually ''smelled like it had been in
q stable" He identified Leonard
Smith and Charles E. Hawkins. both
colored, as the men who usually de-
livered the money to the telegraph
office. Albert H. Smith, said by the
Government to have been the first
lieutenant of the organization, usually
drove the two colored men to the tel
egraph Office, Payne said. Substan-
TALLY the same testimony was given
by Christian Eckhardt, Marie Ander-
son and ]. A. Callahan, all employed
in the Connecticut avenue station.
The alleged headquarters of the
ring, a room in the rear OF legltl-
mate liquor store at 1850 U street.
was linked to the sending of the
money by a telephone number noted
on most of the orders.
Trenton witnesses Here.
Several employees of the Western
Union station at Trenton were on
hand supposedly to testify concerning
the identity of the man who collected
the money orders at that end.
The ring is said to have been headed
by Samuel Sloan Montgomery, one of
the defendants. For year and half
he and his associates are said by the
Government to have brought into
Washington in the neighborhood OF
10000 gallons of alcohol and corn
whisky each week. wholeSaling it to
local bootleggers.
The case is being prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorneys
Henry A. Schweinhaut and Howard
Boyd
The first witness today was E. j.
Donahoe of the Department of We
hicles and Traffic, who identified rec
ords of sale of eight of the % cars
which the Government contends were
used by the liquor organization.
Phone Official Testifies.
Isadore CHASER, 155 Florida avenue,
testified that he sold a moving van to
Montgomery on August 18, 1884. Rec
ords of telephone calls between Bar
tolozzi's home in Trenton and the
Washington headquarters of the Or
ganization were presented by Fred
erick D. Reynolds, New Jersey Bell
Telephone Co. official He also iden-
titled a telephone listed to Karl Som
merfeld at Burlington, N. j., garage
as the source of frequent long-distance
telephone calls to Bartolozzi's home
and to Washington.
Herbert H. Gookins of the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. was
the only witness yesterday. He identi-
fled telephone records showing install
lations at five addresses said to have
been used by the liquor organization.
Charges Blind" Used.
In an opening address to the jury,
Schweinhaut described the parts played
by each of the defendants in the al
legged conspiracy. He placed one head
quarters of the ring in the rear room
Of a legitimate liquor store at 1850 U
street. conducted by Earl G. Funk, one
Of the defendants.
A small, bare room at 1340 U street
was used as blind to conceal the
location of the real headquarters,
Schweinhaut declared. In this little
room, he said, was installed a tele-
phone which was connected to the
liquor store nearby. Thus. all calls
automatically we're transferred to the
store, yet the location of the telephone
terminus remained hidden.
Another headquarters, he said, was
located at 1923 p. street, but later
transferred to a garage in rear Of
1929 street.