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BOOTLEGGER GANG PLANNED TO DISPOSE WHISKEY IN CHICAGO Planned To Use Forged Government Liquor Permits. Confession Reveals —Confession Involves Kentucky Die tiller and Chicago Politician. Chicago.—Details of the alleged con piracy by which “Boss” John J. Mc Laughlin, well-known West Side poli tician; O. H. Wathen, a millionaire distiller of Louisville, Ky., and others planned to dispose of $1,000,000 worth of whiskey to Chicago saloons by the use of forged Government permits have been disclosed to District Attorney Ol sen In confession by William A. Sad ler. Sadler was arrested in Canada and returned to Chicago willingly. He lives at Pewaukee, Wis. Sadler declares that he bought 1,000 cases of whiskey from Wathen for $30,000 and that it was to be sold in Chicago for $100,000. McLaughlin, he says, was to get $30,000 for “greasing the way, through the use of forged Government permits, for its withdrawal from the Wathen ware house. Sadler's confession reveals that through the use of permits, which were given to him by McLaughlin, then a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, he brought 1,000 cases of whiskey from the Wathen Distillery in Louisville to the Pennsylvania freight terminal in Chicago. Although he had been assured by McLaughlin that the whole matter was fixed, prohibition agents inter cepted the unloading of the booze and seized 800 out of 1,000 cases while the American Express Company was trans ferring the shipment from freight cars to the warehouse of the American Distillery Company at 1006 South State street. The confession reveals that Mc Laughlin gave Sadler the permits for the shipment of 1,000 cases after Cap tain Hubert Howard, who was in charge of the issuance of permits in the Chicago district at the time, had turned him down.
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Grayson East Kentucky Journal
Grayson, Kentucky, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1923
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