SHOE POLISH USED
ALCOHOL AND BRANDIES AMERICAN RING'S ACTIVITIES A LARGE NUMBER ARRESTED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Aug. 2, at 10 p.m.) The Federal grand jury indicted 103 men, including policemen, Federal Treasury agents, doctors and druggists, on charges of distilling alcohol and brandies from materials, including shoe polish and cleaning fluids. This is considered to be the biggest round-up in the history of the city, even including the prohibition era. The ring, in which hoodlums worked alongside apparently respectable professional men, is accused of defrauding the Government of at least 2,000,000 dollars in taxes over a period of three years and a-half. Eighty-six of the defendants were immediately arrested and warrants have been issued against others. The investigators said the ring distributed 10,000 gallons of alcohol every week to druggists for prescriptions to extract makers for resale to bakers and to doctors for medical purposes at half regular price. It is alleged that policemen extracted bribes from purchasers by threats of arrest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23568, 3 August 1938, Page 9
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