Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — SEVEN BROTHERS GET TRIP TO ATLANTA PRISON. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN BROTHERS GET TRIP TO ATLANTA PRISON.

New York, June 27.—Seven brothers, Abraham, Charles, Davis, Elias, George, John and Joseph Solomon, were today sentenced by United States Judge Knox to serve two years each in the Atlanta prison for pleading guilty to conspiracy to swindle merchants out of goods valued at more than a half million dollars. They operated a wholesale business in wearing apparel, conducting twenty-seven stores in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Trenton, Chicago, Newark, New York and other cities. ,