New-York tribune. [volume], October 03, 1922, Page 7, Image 7

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pry Agents Said
fo Have Looted
Seized Liquors
i fgghington Grand Jury Re?
ports Contraband Was
Converted to Use of Offi?
cials and Their Friends
fnder Previous Regime
ft Action Contemplated, as
* Guilty Persons No Longer
Are in U. S. Service
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2.?Chargea that
???'in representatives of the Depart
st cf Justice" converted to their
CK large stocks of liquor seized
?frtinthc enforcement of prohibition
laws ?remade in a special report filed
? ?ay by the District of Columbia
Grand Jnry
1 he report asserted that the liquor
?as removed from storage and was
?jiedbythe officials involved for their
print? consumption, for distribution
?friends and as gifts to favored in?
vitations. There was no charge that
m of the liquor was disposed of for
financial gain. The jury did not nanu
.be individuals ?ho were involved, but
declared that their conduct "cannot be
too severely condemne-i."
A' the Department of Justice, ofiicials
indicBte? that no action '.vas in pros?
pect sine* 'he offenses complained of.
?sere by "former attaches of a former
administration" of the department.
William J. Burns, chief of the depart?
ment's Bureau of Investigation,, con?
firmed that large stocks of liquor held
<t the custody of the department had
'.^appeared" between the dates men
toned in the grand jury report, July
25 and September 11, 1920.
Evidence Found Missing
The first intimation of such a situa?
tion, Mr. Burns said, came to him when
counsel for a defendant in a liquor
eaae which had lapsed under the statute
tf limitations, filed claim for return of
the several cases of whisky involved.
H( ordered that the property be re
turned at once and then learned that
it was no longer in the "warehouse.
Officials of the department estimated
that "several hundred cases" of assort?
ed liquors were removed illegally from
jtho department's evidence-cache. The
'value was placed at upwards o? $100,
000 by counsel for one of the inter?
ested ?owners.
A record of the withdrawals showinc;
the alleged Signature ?? the Depart?
ment cf Justice official who vouched
for the removal in each case was ob?
tained by a private detective, accord
n*f? t?) counsel, as was also a list ot
places aiid persons to whom delivery
whs ttnde alter the liquor was taken
from the local warehouse.
Max Haipcrin Indicted
Indictments were returned by the
grand jury to-day against Max Hai?
perin, an attorney, and Melville Stern
els, both of New York, and Wil1 ifa R.
J. Hayden and Ivan Pennywo;-,;-.. em?
ployees in the office of the chief of
prohibition agents. They are charged
with conspiring to remove from gov?
ernment tiles books, records and other
documents relating to renewal permits
of various distilleries and wholesale
drue-gists.
The indictment relates that the files
obtained pertained to the renewals
cf permits of the Eureka Drug Com?
pany and the Stewart Distillery an?.]
that the alleged conspirators sought t?
have taken from the files the records o?
the Lee Drug Company, Greenwak'
Pros.,. Rogers Distillery, R. & M. Cheoi
ical Company, Salustor & Go. an<
the Golden Gate Fruit Company.
New customs regulations making ef
fective the provisions of the tariff ac
of 1922 prohibiting the importation o
intoxicating liquors, without a permit
were promulgated to-day by th.
treasury.
The regulations provide for the sei?.
ure of liquors, the seizure of th?
vehicle in which importation is at
tempted and the imposition of a liabi!
ity equal to the value of the liquor
upon the person in charge of th
vehicle seized.
Brother Finds Divorcee and
Policeman Dead in His Horn
MIDDLEBORO. Mass.. Oct. 2.?Th
bodies of Miss Lena Willett, a twentj
two-year-old divorcee, and Charle
Haggerty, a special policeman, wei
found in the Willett home to-day wit
a bullet wound in the head of each,
service revolver, which Haggerty ha
obtained at Police Headquarters, was o
the Moor at his side.
Haggerty went to C'.e home of Mil
Willett, found her mother out and sei
her brother on an errand. When tl
boy returned he found both bodies.
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