THE AMERICAN SWINDLE
ANOTHER ARREST REPORTED ARMAMENTS ACTIVITIES NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (Received Dec. 21, at 11.55 p.m.) Benjamin Simon, a munitions merchant, was arrested to-night. He was an important executive of McKesson and Bobbins, and investigators are seeking to connect him. with the Benjamin Simon who was tried in 1929 when Musica was charged with perjury in connection with a poultry racket and the murder of Barnett Baiff. Musica disappeared and Simon was sentenced to three months in gaol. G-men established that offers of armaments were made by agents of the drug firm to' Mexico, China, Bolivia, Paraguay, Dominica, Uruguay, and Colombia.
AN AGENT FOR COSTER
NEW YORK : Dec. 21
(Received Dec. 22, at 0.15 a.m.)
Another' mask of respectability has been torn off with Benjamin Simon's arrest on a conspiracy charge. Simon, as Coster's agent in armaments activities, is revealed as an ex-convict who was embroiled in a poultry racket. G-men expect him to provide a missing link with the past as he was associated with Musica during the period when the latter was becoming Coster. Investigators have found that Simon's home address' is the address given on Coster's fraudulent birth certificate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23689, 22 December 1938, Page 11
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