SENATOR'S SUICIDE
NEW YORK SCANDAL SEVERAL CHARGES PENDING NEW YORK. July 20 The campaign of Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, New York District Attorney, to break up local rackets and prosecute prominent members has resulted in the suicide of a State Senator, Julius Berg, in his law office. He told his wife he was '' too much involved" to face the investigation. Following the death, it transpired that a grand jury secretly indicted Berg on 17 counts of embezzlement, grand larceny and false representation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23096, 22 July 1938, Page 11
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