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Goldstein, Hellmich, Kinney and Other Prominent Citi zens in Three States Con victed of Conspiracy to Violate Liquor Law. (By The Associated Dress) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 18.— Twenty-three men from St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago were found guilty in federal court here today of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws in connection with withdrawal of 80,000 gallons of pre war whiskey from the Jack Daniel Distillery at St. Louis. Twenty of the men are from St. Louis, where several of them are prominent in par ties, two are from Cincinnati and one from Chicago. “We have never reached so many of the higher-ups,” John Marshall, assistant attorney general, who direct ed the presentation of the case said, December 30 was set by Judge Robert C. Baltzell for passing sent ences. A maximum sentence of two years in the penitentiary and a $10, 000 fine may be assessed. Among those convicted were: Arn old J. Hellmich, former collector of internal revenue; Nat Goldstein, Re publican leader and former clerk of the circuit court; State Senator Michael J. Kinney; Michael J. Wha len, former alderman; and William J. Kinney, deputy internal revenue col lector, all of St. Louis. The others were: Anthony Foley, Daniel O'Neil, Harry Levin Morris, Isadore and Sid ney Martin, John Connors, Edward J. O'Hare, Robert E. Walker, Richard Fitzgibbons, Thomas FW. McCafferty, Edward Meininger, Perry Stratton, Bendon Caster and John Marcus, all of St. Louis, William Luecking and Geo. R. Landon, Cincinnati, and Don H. Robinson, Chicago, Mrs. Ada Gehrum, John Gehrum and August Walter, Cincinnati, were exonerated by the jury. John Marcus, arrested after the liquor trial opened is held for Toledo, Ohio, authorities, on a charge of murder. The jury deliberated less than three hours. The liquor was withdrawn from the Daniels Distillery in August 1925, after the whiskey had been pur chased by George Remus, millionaire bootlegger of Cincinnati and associ ates. Indictments were returned in St. Louis the following month but the accused, many of whom were among those convicted here, were never brought to trial. The Daniel case came to Indiana as the result of a seizure of whiskey were in December, 1923, which was identified as part of the St. Louis stock. It was en route to Cincinnati. Thirty-five men and two women were indicted here last October. Mrs. Im ogene Remus, estranged wife of Re mus, was one of the accused. Fred Essen, a former Missouri con peressman, accused of a part in the plot, was ill when the trial opened. He is to be tried later. Three of the defendants, Carlisle and Clifford Sampson and Bernard Brink of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty and the government dismissed the charge against Mrs. Remus when Re mus took the stand. Remus said the liquor had been purchased with the idea of illegally withdrawing it. Through the influ ece of Lesen, Goldstein, Kinney and even as other politicians of the Remus ring obtained protection from the in ternal revenue office, Remus testified.
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Sat, Dec 19, 1925
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