AN ACQUITTAL

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1935, Page 5

AN ACQUITTAL

U.S. JUDGE CRITICISES JURY, (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; NEW YORK, August 1.

At the town of Malone, .Arthur Frogenlieiker, known to the . underworld as “Dutch Schultz” was acquitted by a jury of the Federal Court today on a charge of haring defrauded the Government of over 100,000 dollars of income tax, due on his vast profits from the sale of illicit liquor during the prohibition regime. This was his second trial, in the first trial the jury reached, a deadlock. The present jury; deliberated for over twenty-eight, hours. Their verdict'came ,as a shock to the Judge presiding, Judge Bryant, whose anger increased when the, gangster grinned at the crowd, which responded with cheers and applause. “Before 1 discharge you,” Judge Bryant scornfully addressed the jury, “I will have to say that your, verdict is such that it shakes the confidence of law-abidding people in integrity and truth. You have rendered a blow against: law enforcement, and given ail encouragement to people ..who would flaunt the. law.” • The evidence at the trial revealed that Flegenheimei- had made a fortune from the sale of beer, and that he was closelv associated with, . if lie were not the actual operator of, man v profitable rackets. He admitted that he had never filed a tax report.