Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1929 — Page 11
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RUM RAIDERS FIND ALCOHOL IN FRAT HOME Gamma Eta Gamma Chapter at Illinois U. Faces Padlock. TRIO IS UNDER ARREST College Bootleggers Made S2O a Gallon Profit, Sheriff Charges. £u I nitt<! Press CHAMPAIGN, 111., Nov. 18. Twenty Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity boys went to classes at the University of 'lllinois today fearful that the fraternity house, three blocks from the campus, would be padlocked as an asserted collegiate bootlegging establishment before they could get back. The padlock threat was made after Sheriff Elmer Shoaff and several deputies found ten gallons of alcohol and numerous bottles of liquor in the fraternity house during a dead-of-night raid early Sunday. Three fraternity members and one other student were arrested and J. D. Lewis of Orchardville, 111., president of the organization, promised other members of the group would be turned over to the authorities when wanted. Demands Clean Breast If members of the fraternity make a clean breast of the affair and tell who were the students selling liquor at the house, no further action will be taken against the organization and the house will not be padlocked, State’s Attorney Roy R. Cline said today. He added, however, that unless 'this information was forthcoming and ownership of the jug of alcohol established, the building would be closed. The trio, arrested when the sheriff | and his men routed the pajama- I clad fraternity out of bed at 2 a. m., j were William Sherman of Crown j Point, Ind.; Alfred J. Withers. Hibbing. Minn., and Ernest Longbons, Marion, 111., all law students. B. W. Hoare. not a member of Gamma Eta Gamma, had been arrested earlier and had told officers he bought the quart of liquor he had In his pocket from Sherman at the fraternity house. The fraternity men were placed in jail and Hoare was released on his pledge to hold himself available as a witness. Longbons was released Sunday night on SI,OOO bond. Bottles Scattered Throughout Sheriff Shoaff said bottles containing various kinds of liquor were scattered throughout the costly fraternity house and that the ten gallons of alcohol w'ere in a trunk. Hundreds of fathers of students, visiting the university for Dad s day, were in Champaign when the raid was made. The pursuit of education and a profitable traffic in liquor .were carried on simultaneously by the Gamma Eta Gamma boys. Sheriff Shoaff ( declared he had learned. He said , the liquor was bought for sl2 a gallon and sold for $32, a profit of S2O. Other students were said to have , been the purchasers. President Approves Move David Kinley, president of the, university, approved of the course of Sheriff Shoaff and of State’s Attorney Cline, who proposed to clamp on a padlock if the owner of the alcohol could not be ascertained. “The administrative council will meet Tuesday,” Kinley said. "Whatever is right and wise will be done for the safeguarding of the thousands of students here. "If there has been wrongdoing, we will not shirk our duty.” WILLIAM R. ASH DIES Former City Street Inspector, to Be Buried Here. The body of William R. Ash, 78, former city street inspector, who died several days ago at his home in Los Angeles, will arrive in the city tonight for funeral services and burial Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Surviving are two sons, Joseph Ash, Cincinnati, and William R. Ash Jr., Covington, Ky., and a daughter, Mrs. Schachleiter, Los Angeles. TITLE MEN WILL MEET State Association to Convene in City on Tuesday, Problems confronting real estate title men of the state will be discussed at the opening of the twentyfourth annual convention of the Indiana Title Mens’ Association Wednesday in the Claypool. One hundred delegates from other sections of the state are expected to attend. The association's annual dinner will be held Wednesday night. J. E. Morrison is president of the organisation. FUNERAL SERVICES SET Retired Wholesale Merchant Had Served Republican Party. Funeral rites for Harry’ C. Fariss, 77. of 5426 North Pennsylvania street, who died at the Indiana Christian hospital Saturday, will be • held Tuesday at 10 a. m. at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Fariss was a former Republican precinct committeeman and was a member of the Ninteenth Century lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He in', the wholesale meat, candy aDd grocery business until his retirement' fourteen years ago.
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Pretty Mrs. Olga Edwards, former moving picture actress, accused by Nathan L. Amster, New York financier, of blackmailing huge sums from him; is pictured above as s'he appeared in a Manhattan court to face charges of extortion. She claimed that the millionaire traction magnate is the father of her 6-year-old son, Lee, shown below, and that he agreed to pay her SSOO monthly if she wouldn’t "annoy” him of his family. Amster has denied paternity of the child.
NICK SUBBVICH GOINS TO CELL Slayer Will Not Fight Prison Term Verdict. Bu Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Noi. 18.— Nick Sudovich will “take the rap” without even attempting to put up a fight. Reputed A1 Capone’s Indiana “branch manager,” Sudovitch stood before Judge Grant Crumpacker in Porter cicuit court here today and was sentenced to two to twenty-one years in the Indiana state prison following conviction on manslaughter charges in the slaying of Uron Marovich, East Chicago, a rival liquor dealer. Counsel for Sudovich announced he would not ask for anew trial and that no appeal will be taken. The convicted man faces two federal indictments based on dry law charges, and his wife, faces a like number of charges under the same law. WINS YO YO TITLE Owen Davidson !s Victor on Lyric Stage. People today still were singing the praise as a Yo Yo expert of Owen Davidson, who triumphed over Daniel McDuffee, 720 East Thirty-eighth street, in a contest staged by The Times at the Lyric, Saturday night. Davidson, who won the Indiana theater contest, and McDuffee, who won the Ritz theater contest, met in deadly combat on the Lyric stage for final honors. Davidson, who lives at 1725 Ingram street, had many stunts which set the great audience yelling its pleasure. Davidson attached a Yo Yo to each ear and kept both in perfect motion. McDuffee put up a stiff fight, but Davidson’s ear stunt fascinated the audience. Davidson received $5 in cash and McDuffee received $3. A. J. Kalberer, manager of the Lyric, acted as master of ceremonies. TROOP 58 TAKES MEET Scores 28 Points in Washington District Scoutcraft Contest. Troop No. 58. 80l Scouts of America, with twenty-eight points to its credit, captured high honors in the Washington district field meet held on the bank of Little Eagle creek Saturday. Events were of scoutcraft, such as fire by flint, fire by friction, signaling and water boiling.
ALIEN OF COLORFUL CAREER FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM FROM INDIANA PRISON
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY AN alien who has five times smuggled himself into America but one of the youngest American army officers in service during the World war A university man who writes flawless English, but who knows the underworld throughout the land and lists himself as a friend of such famed shotgun departed gangsters as Dion O’Banion of Chicago— A man with a pardon signed by former Governor James B. Goodrich. but serving a life sentence at the Indiana state prison Native of Esthonia, who prefers the name of Thomas J. Kelley Such contradictory terms are needed to describe Alexander Pousep, 30, who Is seeking to be
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ONE FATALITY, I TWENTY HURT, TRAFFIC TOLL - Victim Was Carrying Liquor When Hit by Street Car, Cops Say. SEEK HIT-RUN DRIVER ■ Grins, Speeds Away After Wrecking Auto Near Glens Valley. An unidentified man was dead and ; more than twenty others injured i today as the result of traffic acci- ! dents in and near Indianapolis over I the week-end. Another man succumbed Sunday night to injuries received in an auto crash more than a week ago. When his sedan collided with an ! outo driven by Charles Church, 52, Greenwood, at Troy and Brill streets this morning, Chester Ridout, Rushville, Pettis Dry Company agent, sustained a skull fracture that is expected to result fatally. Bbth cars were overturned and wrecked. Church escaped with only minor Injuries. The unidentified man, who city hospital physicians say is about 65, died less than an hour after he was struck by a Northwestern street car at Tenth and Illinois streets early today. Philip Bird, 32, of 1010 West Thirty-first street, motorman, told j police the man was standing in the ! street and stepped in front of the car. A bottle partly filled with liquor was found in his pocket, police say. Hit Elevation Othello Power, 60, of 1627 Fletcher avenue, bailiff of Marion county coroner's court, injured internally when his automobile struck an elevation abutment on £k>uth street, near Delaware street, nine days ago, died at his home Sunday night. He is survived by the widow and two daughters. Three persons, one a child, were injured today when an automobile driven by Willie Williams, 24, of Wichita Falls, Tex., crashed headon into a car driven by Roy Nichols, 32, of Clayton, Ind., on the National road, one-half mile west of Ben Davis. Williams* son, Leonard, 3, and Mrs. Minnie Nichols, 40, and Mrs. Edna Nichols, 28, occupants of tv.e other car, were injured. They were taken to the city hospital. A hit-and-run driver Sunday night struck Paul Jones and Albert Stanfield, French Lick, on State Road No. 37, near Glens Valley. Both are in Robert Long hospital, with cuts and bruises. Edward Conner, Exchange, Ind., hitch-hiker, to whom the driver had given a "lift” shortly before the accident, leaped from the speeding hit-and-run car and returned to the injured men. The driver and his companion grinned and drove on after striking Jones and Stanfield, Conner said. Failure to Stop Alleged Claude Hayes, 902 West Twenty- j eighth street, was charged with failure to stop after an accident, after his autmobile is alleged to have struck Mrs. Oscar Ray, 1050 West Thirtieth street, at Thirtieth and Clifton streets Sunday night. She was not injured seriously. Others injured were: Dennis Long. 44/Louisville, Ky. cut and bruised; Mrs. Cora Klusman, 49, Greenwood, broken leg; Miss Laverne Klusman, 20, probably skull fracture and internal injuries; Eugene Klusman, 17, and Wilbur Klusman, 19, cut and bruised; Mrs. John Peterson. Los Angeles, Cal., broken shoulder; John Peterson, Los Angeles, cut above eye; Mrs Cornelius Johnson. 102 East Twenty-first stret, cut on head and chest; Hope Nelson, 56, of 3831 West Washington street, bruised; John Ronkin, 45, Salvation Army hotel, bruised; Clyde Jewell, 2131 Barrett street, internal injuries; Mrs. Dora Stone, 61, wrenched back, and Winford Clark, 14, of 427 North Keystone avenue, cut on head and face. JURY FAVORS^minister Returns Not Guilty Verdict on Criminal Libel Charge. Bit United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18.—The Rev. R. P. Shuler has won half a victory in his court contest with former Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles. A jury has found the minister not guilty on one count of libeling Cryer, but disagreed about another, and no decision was made as to whether or not there would be a new trial.
set free from the state prison on the ground that he was “railroaded for life” in Marion criminal court. As Thomas J. Kelley, alias James Ross Cameron, Pousep was given a life sentence, Jan. 21. 1926. as an habitual criminal, by Judge James A. Collins. Under the Indiana law that means that he previously had been found guilty of three felonies. a a a t/" ELLEY, the Esthonian with numerous aliases now asserts. through his attorney, Tom Miller of Muncie, that he only was found guilty of one felony, and that the Goodrich pardon wiped that off the record. Clarence C. Wysong, state in-
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Members of New York society went to Mrs. Vincent Astor’s fashion charity show expecting to see the Princess Estelle de Broglie of Paris as the leading member of the show. But the 'princess didn’t show up. Sponsors of the affair said the princess walked out because she didn’t get enough attention. But the princes says she had such a badly infected toqth. -
REAL SILK STRIKE ATTEMPT BALKED
Seventeen Employes Fired When Organizer Tries to Start Walkout. Efforts of alleged union organizers to persuade full-fashioned hosiery workers at the Real Silk hosiery mills to strike today were blocked by J. A. Goodman, chairman of the board of directors, who ordered all machinery in the department halted momentarily this morning. Seventeen workers, who, with a man known as H. E. Steel, Milwaukee, representative of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and two Kenosha iWis.) strikers, distributed handbills urging the strike, were discharged. As the 350 men working on the day shift in the full-fashioned department gathered in the shop this morning, Goodman appeared before them. "If you are dissatisfied with conditions here we only ask you to leave and leave peacefully,” he said. “If you want to work I assure you that you will be protected in the plant and outside it.” A special squad of police had patrolled the exterior of the shop since midnight Sunday. At tha close of Goodman’s brief speech the workers cheered and shouted. "We want to work.” The seventeen, discharged after a conference wtih Goodman, are said to have attended a conference with Steel and his aids at the Clothing Workers’ hall, 168 West Pratt street. BUTLER’S DOG MASCOT GETS MAD AT DEFEAT Chases at Up Pole and Firemen Are Called to Rescue. Bonzar, the mascot bulldog of Butler University, got mad Sunday over Butler’s defeat on the gridiron by James Millikin. He got so mad he chased a cat belonging to J. W. Kaercher, 609 Bernard avenue, up a telephone pole. Collegians tamed Bozar but it took all the "king’s horses” and engine house No. 14 with its ladder, and calls of "come kitty, come” to get Kaercher’s cat back to a purring stance at the fireside. And now today, no one con find Bonzar. His loss was reported to police by James Kelly, 310 Harvard Place. He is valued at SIOO. Kelly and Butler collegians believe Bonzar’s disappearance may be laid either at the door of the university’s defeat on the gridiron or his frustration in the cat chase.
surance commissioner, who, as Marion county pauper attorney, defended Kelley, is inclined to agree with these conclusions, he said today. Here is the way Miller has assembled the record and the explanation for Kelley’s plight; He first was convictfed in Delaware circuit court Oct. 14, 1916, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense. He began serving a four-year sentence at the old Indiana state reformatory at Jeffersonville, Oct. 17, 1916, and was parol to in March, 1918. The World war was on. Somehow, Kelley, the alien and paroled prisoner, obtained a berth in the officers’ training camp at the University of Kentucky. He emerged a second lieutenant and
Love Ends Suit lit/ Times Sncriai TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Nov. 18.—Marriage has ended a $25,000 breach of promise suit filed here by Miss Dorothy R. Pounds against George W. Wiring. An attorney for Miss Pounds, after being paid a fee by Wiring, shook hands with him and the couple left. “They are going out to get married,” the attorney announced.
THIEVES ARE ACTIVE Furs, Jewels, Bedding Are Among Loot. Bed clothing, furs, jewelry and toilet sets were among articles purloined by house prowlers over the week-end in Indianapolis. Jewelry valued at $l5O was stolen from the home of Sidney Seligman, 1635 Central avenue. Rudolph Skadla, 1649 Ringgold street, reported the theft of furs valued at $220. W. D. Rudy, 2235 East Riverside drive, was robbed of a sls toilet set and $6 in jewelry. Bed clothing was taken from the home of Mrs. Emma Jenkins, 1059 Roach street. . Thieves who attempted to gain entrance to the Charles Mayer gift shop, 638 East Thirty-Eighth street, were balked by a padlocked door. DECLARES EDISON IS ‘MOST USEFUL MAN’ Robert Parker Miles Addresses Y. M. C. A. "Big Meeting.” Reminiscences of his career as a journalist, vice crusader and minister were detailed by Robert Parker Miles at the second Y. M. C. A. “Big Meeting” of the season at the English theater Sunday afternoon. He drew a sermon from the career of Thomas A. Edison, whom he termed "the most useful man on God’s earth.’ After relating his early acquaintance with the inventor and the manner in which the latter’s "queer notions” weer accepted at the time, Miles said: "Any man who wins anything in life has to stand on his own individuality.” Girl and Baby Scalded Miss Thelma Parker, 15, of 430 Division street, and Anna Bell Fields, 6 weeks old, who were scalded when a bucket of boiling water upset on them Sunday, today were taken from city hospital to their homes. Neither was burned seriously.
was given an honorable discharge Nov. 26, 1918. Because of his war record, Governor Goodrich gave him a complete pardon on Jan. 8, 1919. He went to Louisville and became a reporter on the Louisville Courier-Journal and later was made acting city editor. u <# m ON April 17, 1&20, James Ross Cameron entered the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., on a three-year sentence for counterfeiting a postal money order at Detroit. He was released April 11, 1922. Kelley was identified as Cameron at the Indianapolis trial, but denies the identity. His attorney points out that even if Cameron were Kelley, the
MINE SWINDLE IS CHARGED IN TWO COUNTIES Officials of ‘Co-Op’ Coal Companies Likely to Face Court. UNION MEN CLEARED Trouble Laid to Sales of Stocks Which Are Held to Be Fraudulent. Prosecution instead of protection may be meted out by the state to officials of the co-operative mines In Warrick and Sullivan counties, it was announced at the statehouse today. Affidavits have been issued for officers of the Sunnybrook and Center coal companies at Boonville in Warrick county and the Hoosier Coal Mining Company at Sullivan. They are charged with violation of the state securities law. The action is expected to have important bearing on mine labor troubles in the district, where several hundred miners have been thrown out of work by closing of the co-operative mines. The affidavits were issued following a visit to Boonville of Earle Coble, chief examiner of the state securities commission, and Merle Wall, deputy attorney-general. Ask for Protection Officers and some of the miners of these companies had appealed to Governor Harry G. Leslie for protection. They alleged in a petition to the Governor that they were interfered with in the operation of their mines by alleged union miners, acting as pickets, opposed to the co-operative plan. On returning to the statehouse today, declared that the nobs at Boonville were not union miners, but disgruntled investors in the co-operative mines. He alleges the stock in these mines was sold to the miners at $lO a share, its par value, and then the purchasers were required to work seventeen days as additional payment to $lO in cash. The $lO stock, which he alleges is valueless, thus costs the miners $l5O, he says. Lon T. Shaw, secretary and treasurer of the two Boonville companies, already has been arrested on a warrant issued at Boonville. It is alleged that he sold unregistered stock and is an unlicensed dealer. These charges carry a prison sentence of from one to five years and a fine not to exceed SI,OOO. One Mine Opens Shaw was a member of the delegation appealing to Leslie for protection. He charges the move is part of the program to defeat the cooperative operation program. The effort, Shaw believes, has the aid, not only of union miners, but of mine operators who are under contract for the employment of union miners and are opposed to the co-operative method. Word from Warrick county indicated the John Bull mine, operated by the Center company, was open today with a full quota of workmen. It had been closed since last Tuesday. Picketing continues, but no disturbances were reported. SHERIFF EXONERATED Bootlegger Bridegroom to Bury Woman. Bu United Press HERINGTON, Kan., Nov. 18.—A bootlegger bridegroom was arranging from a jail cell today for the burial of the bride he married in jail and who was shot to death by a sheriff as he sought* to search the automobile in which she was transporting liquor. Louise V. Bassett, also known as Louise Horton, 36, was slain Friday night by Sheriff Sidney C. Dedrick as he stood on the running board of the automobile in which she was transporting ten gallons of alcohol and twenty-five gallons of whisky. The husband, Jerry S. Bassett whose dealings in liquor had ? llowed him to maintain an expensive apartment near the exclusive country club district in Kansas City, is in Jail at Cottonwood Falls. The sheriff was exonerated by a coroner's jury. Manager Becomes Father ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 18. A daughter was born at St. John’s hospital here to Mr. and Mrs. Williams M. Toner. The father is business manager of the Anderson Herald.
conviction can not be counted as a felony, as the offense is recognized as a misdemeanor under federal statutes. But there remains the arrest of Kelley in Springfield, Mass., May 2, 1925, as a fugitive. He was returned to New York, where he was wanted on grand larceny charges growing out of a bond deal. After serving forty-six days of a two-year-and-six-month sentence at Sing Sing prison, the case was reversed by the New York court of appeals and he again was free. b a m KELLEY was arrested at the Washington hotel when a .search was made for some missing articles of other guests. He served
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Bernice Bush, 33 (above), of Louisville, first American woman to be tried for murder in Mexico, was acquitted in Mexico City on charges of murdering her former lover. Genaro Benavente. The modiste shot Benavente, she said, when he refused to return her money he had borrowed and cast her aside for another woman.
CONVICT MAY BEJNNOCENT William S. Ragan Now Suspected in Robbery. Bit United Press DANVILLE, Ind., Nov. 18.--A possibility that William S. Ragan, business man and confessed robber, might have robbed the State bank at Marshfield instead of the man serving a life sentence for the crime was the subject of investigation today. William Roberts, a South Dakota deputy sheriff, was found guilty of robbing the bank Aug. 6. Since going to prison he has sent many letters to Wiliam Ryan, former chief of police here, protesting his innocence. The former chief says Roberts and Ragan resemble each other. He will question Ragan on the possibility that he may be the robber. Ragan until three weeks ago was a plant executive in Chicago and highly regarded. Since then he has been charged with the attempted robbery of the Fisher (111.) State bank and with having robbed the Oxford (Ind.), Fowler (Ind.) and the Grant Park and Buckingham (111.) State banks. DIES AT COURTHOUSE Heart Disease Victim Is Connell O’Neill. Connell O’Neil, 45, of 805 North East street, dropped dead this morning in a elevator which was carrying him to the second floor of the Marion county courthouse. Heart disease caused his death. Papers found on the body bore O f Neils name and address. A letter found in his coat was addressed to Mrs. Edith O’Neil, 1030 Arthur street, Rushville. James Monday, 55, of Brightwood, succumbed today of heart disease in a doctor’s office at 3714 East Fifteenth street. Police were unable to locate relatives of the dead man. He lived with another man in a small house on Sherman drive near Brightwood £i__ M. E. LEADER IS BURIED Dr. J. E. Williams Formerly Was Church Superitnendent. Funeral services for Dr. J. E. Williams, 65, former superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church, who died Friday at the Methodist hospital, were held this morning at Roberts Park church. Burial was this afternoon at Pendleton. Mrs. James Freeman of Indianapolis is the only survivor. Auto Tow Cable Hits Man Herman Hughes, 64, of 1452 Hiatt street, was injured on the head and legs Sunday when a cable, with which one automobile was towing, another at Kentucky avenue and Harding street, snapped and struck his legs, knocking him to the pavement.
a thirty-day sentence for petit larceny and while in jail some drafts issued by him returned. He then was charged with forgery and later given the life sentence. Kelley had no money with which to employ an attorney. Wysong, assigned to the case, asked that he oe deported instead of sent to prison. Contending Kelley really has no felony convictions, Miller plans reopening the case on petition for writ of error coram nobis. Wysong favors the move. Kelley claims to be the son of a prominent doctor in Esthonia. His education is reflected in a recent letter sent Wysong, thank- I ing him graciously for his i
HIGH SOCIETY ON TRIAL IN MURDER CASE Upper World Linked With Uoder World in Gotham Death Mystery. ROTHSTEIN WAS POWER Broadway Gaming King Held Entree Into Circles of Big Business. Story of Trial on Paso One. BY GENE COHN, NEA Service Writer NEW YORK. Nov. 18.—A big card-and-dice man named George McManus finally went on trial today after a year of delays. But with this itinerant gambler is being tried a considerable section of polite society. McManus, according to indictment and district attorney, is responsible for the death of Arnold Rothstein, king of Manhattan’s gamblers, racketeers and political fixers. Polite society, according to all Indications, is responsible for that part of the life of Arnold Rothstein which made him a power behind many thrones. Two Worlds Linked Just back of the scenes in the courtroom where dapperly dressed, Broadwayesque McManus sits may be found a strangely patterned shadow where underworld and upperworld meet In fantastic companionship; The money of the underworld finds its way into respectable pockets of the npperworld; the money of the upperworld finds itself exchanged for the favors of the underworld. The underworld learns to wear the mask of the upperworld and to join in Its casual and intimate affairs. Judges toss certain cases mysteriously out of court; witnesses go dumb upon the stand; high officials become involved in political manipulations. and sporting events find themselves fixed in favor of heavy bettors; important citizens are used indirectly for building prestige. Probe Is Feared And because polite society allowed Arnold Rothstein to live as he did, it now must accept the manner of his death. Nor must it pry too deeply into the manner in which this death came about, lest it trip over one of its fellows or meet some eminently reputable society figure. Be all this as it may, Rtohstein was shot and killed one year ago while a big card game was in progress in one of the swankiest hotels. Rothstein and his crowd had access to all that Is swanky. Each morning when he left a mansion on Riverside drive, or another mansion he occupied on Fifth avenue, or another mansion he bought in the seventies, Arnold Rothstein—who financed huge narcotic operations, who accepted toll from speakeasies and shady night clubs, who assured "protection”— and got it—would leave in his RollsRoyce and drop In on many of New York’s most respectable offices. Eventually he would arrive at his own concern, which dealt legitimately in mortgages, loans and real estate.
Expose Drug Ring: By night he would operate three or four of Broadway’s leading dice games and, when it served his purpose. he would be seen at the Astor or the Waldorf with eminently prominent political figures. Yet, hardly was his corpse cold in the grave, when one of the largest narcotic hauls in history was made possible through papers found by federal agents in his effects. Papers which might have led to many other disclosures conveniently disappeared. Rothstein had as his gambling clientele only the wealthiest and most influential people. When any of his gaming resorts opened, whether in Broadway or way points, most of his players came by invitation. He wanted only the biggest spenders with the biggest bank-rolls. Officials Indebted to Him Before that he was a spectacular race “plunger,” until he was ruled off the tracks. Because of political contributions and a certain power he could cause officials to become indebted to him. Because of the new gang participation in labor troubles, his name became linked with the “fixing” of certain radical outbreaks. So ran his course. It was and still is said about his old hangouts that Rothstein grew too conscious and cocky about his power. He had begun to “welsh” on his own debts, while squeezing all his debtors. He did not greatly fear death by viqience, because he figured there were too many people interested in keeping him alive. The presumed motive for the murder blamed upon McManus is given as a quarrel over an unpaid gambling debt. But the wise-guys of Broadway smile at the suggestion and shrug their shoulders. , They mention a relative of a big Tammany figure; they mention two district political leaders, and the agent of a Chicago drug rinfc. They do not consider the conviction of McManus possible. Roshville Man Buried ts.y Time • upecuti RUSHVILLE, Irid.. Nov. 18. Funeral services were held today for Charles J. Caron, 61, veteran confectioner, who died Friday of paralysis.