The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-17

'eSC or the imVeStiRatorS was which Amen has been presenting evidence for three months.
 The charges, for the most part dealing with alleged bribery and corruption in the making of false ball bonds, were contained in c pre- sentiment which also included 0 pe- tition for Rudich's removal.
 They constituted the first major development of the investigation started Nov. ie when Gov. Herbert II. Lehman, takina cognisance of re- peated runors Of corruption in Brooklyn, appointed Amen special prosecutor approaching Kings county District Attorney William ?. x. deoghan.
 Ball Bond Racket
 Amen's inquiry to date has been largely concentrated on the bail bond racket, said to have fiourished in Brooklyn for years; underworld representation on grand and trial juries, and graft in the judicial ap- pointment of fee-earning cofnmis- sions.
 Rudich, appointed and reappoint- cd by Former Mayor James J. Walk. er--who later resigned under fire during the Samuel Seabury inves- tigation--had made c reputation as "Brooklyn's wisecracking magis- trate." A lover of puns and uncon- ventional attitudes, he often made page one in the newspapers-as when he dismissed traffic police- mans complaint against a woman motorist who told him, to "do to hel". Rudich said the remark was just Q wish" and not per SC an act of disorderly conduct.
 Grand Jury Ruling
 The grand jury said Rudich took bribes from Louis Kassmaa, c bail bondslnan convicted of perjury. and that in return for si00 paid by kassman once unsuccessfully at- tempted to influence c Manhattan magistrate in behalf Of c convicted prostitute. Rudich said he would fight 1t out" and T won't resign
 Amen said the Rudich charges were "just 6 beginning" end that heneeforth "there won't be e dull moment" in the Brooklyn investi- gaHon.
 The federal judiciary investigation attracted public attention because Of the 'big names" involved. It was ordered by Attorney General Prank Murphy after District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey had complained to the Eouse judiciary committee in Washington against Martin T. Man- ton, senior judge of the second U. s. circuit court Of appeals,
 ManteR Resigned
 Manton, whose income from 1916 to 1889 totaled ti,000,000 although his judges salary added up to only e2b0,000, resigned after Dewey charged that his outside business in- terests were such as to have 6 beaF- ing on his judicial conduct.
 Undertones Of the S2i ,000,0 Me- kesson & Robbins drug scandal ap- peafed in the judiciary investigation when federal authorities cut short the southern cruise Of U. s. Judge Edwin s. Thomas Of Connecticut and ordered him to appear before the grand jury here. Thomas had ordered the equity Feceivership which set Of the McKesson & Rob- bins inquiry.
 Murphy assigned Cahill to the judiciary investigation and asked J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau Of investigation, to take per- sonai charge Of gathering evidence for him,
 The Hines trial Is taking most Of Dewey's time at present. He ac- eused the Tammany district leader Of "bfibing, influencing or intimi. dating" police and magistrates in behalf Of the Schultz gangstefs, Magistrate Hulon CapshaW, under suspension since Dewey laned him as one of those influenced by Hines, testified for the defense that the charges were. false,
 Another Dewey case, awaiting trial, is that Of Charles 4, HaFnett. who resigned Nov. i7 as state com- missioner of motor vehicles after pleading not guilty to charges that he accepted t67,000 in bribes for fa- vors to the Parmeiee Transportation company,
 Dewey also accused State Assem- bIyman Edward 6. Moran, Jr, Of Brooklyn of taking bribes totaling S36,060 from New York city taxicab companies.
 Several inquiries undertaken by Dewey have been resolved without court action. Two former ofiice holders. both Tammanyites, resigned under the last of his public accusa- tions, and a third committed suicide.