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MUNITIONS MERCHANT ARRESTED WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MUSICA (Received 22nd December, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 21st December. Benjamin Simon, munitions merchant, was arrested to-night. He was an important executive of the drug-manu-facturing firm of McKesson and Robbins, and investigators have identified him with the Benjamin Simon who was tried in 1929 when the swindler Philip Musica was charged with perjury in connection with the poultry racket and the murder of Barnett Baiff. Musica disappeared and Simon was sentenced to three months’ gaoL G-men expect Simon to provide a missing link with the past as he was associated with Musica during the period when the latter was changing his name to Coster. Investigators say that Simon’s address is the address given on Coster’s fraudulent birth certificate.
G-men have established that offers of armaments were made by agents of Musica’s drug firm to Mexico, China, Bolivia, Paraguay, Dominica, Uruguay and Colombia.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 5
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