Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-07-27 | Page 10 | Twenty-One Indicted for Theft of Beef

TWENTY-ONE INDICTED FOR THEFT OF BEEF NEW YORK. July 26. Twenty-one persons per-sons were indicted here today by the federal fed-eral grand jury on a charge of being implicated im-plicated in the theft of beef consigned to the United States army. All the defendants except one haye been arrested and they were held in bail of from $1000 to $10,000 each. According to E. Paul Yaselli, assistant United States attorney, the plan of operation was for checkers to tell foremen at the delivery depots to give receipts to drivers for a smaller amount than had been loaded upon their trucks. The surplus beef, it is charged, thus withheld from the government govern-ment was bought by the accused butchers, who disposed of it at a big profit.