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Show BIG RUM PLOT BMflf COAST Indictments Say 124 Barrels of Whisky VVe''e Taken From Bond illegally SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. Federal i grand lury indlbtments agVlnBl ten perponn in an alleged llq.UOr selling : 'nspirucy. reinov,! Wcdiosd iv fmni the secret file, revealed charges that Mis Glad K. warburton, former aot- i Ing federal prohibition director; had I conspired to violate ihe prohibition law. and that John 1. Costello, sec- ' rotary to United suites Senator Phelan. hud toll Harry Marquard, reotaurttnt i.ui en to set nBlde from the profits of his ltUor sales 10 per cent "for tho, ! Democratic election fund." During Mrs. WarburtOn's tenure ofi nine da, nocordlng to the indictments DM barrels of whisky were Illegally withdrawn front bonded warehouses. She wns accused of feloniously approving ap-proving a permit for the withdrawal of i twenty of thee barrels. Costello was charged with having; promised Murquard proti ctlon from, federal raids, having told him to gil ahead and sell liquor, and with b i i advised him to stop selling temporarily bocaure a raid was Imminent. Harry Brolaskl, another of those Indicted, In-dicted, informed Marquard thut he , had arranged protection" for him, the indictment stated. Urolaakl s-ild Marquard was to pay him for the pro-, pro-, tectlon, according to the indictment land told ICarouard that Costello anu I Ijoron Handley (then federal prohibl-I prohibl-I tion director for California) "would be-in be-in to see him about matters." The others indicted were Douglas Newton, Jules Gamage, John d. Do- ' marla. Sol. Ixvis. Dan B, Anglum. William M D.-an. John P. Sullivan. I and J. L. Ramanar. The charges i against them were Illegal withdrawal of (IcAfOr from bonded warehouses ann purchase and sale of liquor without j keeping the records prescribed by the federul prohibition law. |