WAR ON RACKETS
SUICIDE OF STATE SENATOR United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received July 21, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 20. Mr Dewey’s campaign to smash local rackets and prosecute prominent persons, resulted in the suicide of State Senator Julius Berg, in his law office. He told his wife: “I am too much involved to face the investigation.” Following the death of Senator Berg, it transpired that the Grand Jury had secretly indicted Berg on seventeen counts of embezzlement, grand larcency and false representation.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21095, 22 July 1938, Page 9
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86WAR ON RACKETS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21095, 22 July 1938, Page 9
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