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SEVEN RUM RING SUSPECTS FACE COURT MONDAYConspiracy Trial For Steubenville Men Opens In ColumbusFEDERAL CHARGESThe spotlight which has been directed on racketeering in Steubenville in the laat two weeks will i lie directed at Columbus next Monday when seven city men go on trial in federal court on con--piraey and tax evasion chatges based on what the government claims was a huge illicit liquor syndicate which operated out of a hteubenville headquarters.Defendants named in indictments returned in a special report by the federal grand jury in October are James liipodi, James Thombetti, Adam Martello, John ! DeCara, David Smith, John Bare us and James Epifano. They pleaded not guilty.The seven were to have gone on trial before Federal Judge Mel G. | Underwood this week but due to a Ross county fraud case involving six men being prolonged it was; necessary to continue the Steuben-j ville case until next Monday.The Steubenville defendants were among 25 men, two of them Pitts- j burghers, indicted in connection cj with the liquor conspiracy which allegedly deals with still opera- M lions in Cleveland, Mentor Head-: jn lands, Youngstown, Pittsburgh and Steubenville. Largest of the stills si was the huge alcohol “cracking plant smashed in a spectacular -w-raid on a McFeely avenue garage j J-last May.Face Dual ChargesTwo of the seven men due to ap-! pear for trial in the Columbus fed-| oral court next Monday are due at i the same time to appear in common pleas court here for arraignment on indictments returned last Thursday by the grand jury which made a special investigation ol vice and racketeering in Jefferson I county.These two defendants are Janies Tripodi and James Trombetti, named in gambling room indictments returned against a resort ; run at 126 North Sixth street.Federal agents contend the con-Sspiracy ring had run its business in Steubenville for months without interference and that the McFeely avenue distillery was producing thousands of gallons of con-! traband a month. They charge the distillery was unlicensed and that | the defendants formed a conspiracy and attempted to defraud the government out of revenue taxes.| Paul McCallum, one of the ace ' alcohol tax unit investigators who ! j developed the case in Steubenville, 5 returned to headquarters here yes-; I terday after a six weeks leave j during which he traveled to the• | west coast. He was ordered back■ ’on duty in time to serve the gov-1 ernment in prosecuting the case.• | While McCallum has returned i here, his companion investigator,■ 1 William Unkle, has been trans-' ferred to the Columbus headquarters of the tax unit force.
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Wed, Jan 19, 1938
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