Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-12 | Page 1 | Polignac Liquor Case Threatens Personages

J Polignac liquor Case 1 Threatens Personages By JOSEPH JOSEPH S. S United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1929 by United Press WASHINGTON Nov 12 UP UP- UP Information alleged to involve a number of nationally pr prominent men and women in large larga liquor tr transactions transaction s was before the justice department today the tha United Press learned authoritatively Tho ho caio cao clos closely ly h Interlocks with the governments government's New York Indictment indictment indict Indict- 1 ment nt Count Polignac h head heaU a of at the Go Bart Go-Bart company and rel representative c oo of of- ofa oCo a a foreign champagne company compan on fa tl char charge tr of oC conspiracy I to violate the tho dry Jaw law and of or al alleged at- at smuggling smug of or liquor It was vas also aso understood details In Inthe Inthe inthe the case caso had bc been n sent to the White House The TIie cn case Involves tho operations o of an alleged bootleg ring Its customers custo custo- ni fliers mers ts and tho the activities I cU les of ot fe federal eral officers Tho Justice department has bas re received TC- TC flO from 1 the prohibition bureau data that a prominent New York business D nu n n I had bad id ri a bootleg ring smuggle cases of at liquor from abroad to his suburban estate Lat Lat- Continued Continued- on page 5 4 P Poli c Liquor C Case siT l Threatens Person Personages Continued drom from page 1 er let the m man after dry agents ag learned of r lila his cach cache surrendered cd the or and it Is now ow stored at the al army aimy base bc 10 in New York Lork PROMINENT PEOPLE ThIs T information together with data datil that that- thata a a prominent moving pic- pic Ic tuie ture star a n. former diplomat and several cral nationally pron prominent women wom vom- customers of or orthe en en cn were tho tim best has been turned the tile bootleg ring 1111 vcr over to United States District Attorney Attorney At At- torney ey Tuttle at New York l. l is expected d t to decide ari after r court ourt action on th the Cou Count ci cas' cas case c 11 Whether conspiracy Indict will 10 bo sought loughl ag against tin tin- customers m 0 of ot tho the ring Federal r l agents are also alsoto t to determine wh whether thet the steamship which tr transported liquor liquor- 1100 noo g gallons sJ in as Os' Os s' s dinnerware dinner ware waro and 85 35 cases cat es as as earthenware shOt rId b be prosecuted d Me Meantime an I Investigation hn has started a to learn leant Ash whether ether hether prohibition or custom agents connived with the bootleg i ring It Jt was learned federal officers ers believe bellevo they were acting a lUI as j jund und r et d sleuths ut s in hi trach tracing s th tl time C FUR TRUCKS At 1St least one na of Of t. t tho customer or the ring it if way was learned learne J furnished trucks E to t to tHe uW liquor or smugglers t-b t th the whisky arid and rare rate cordials could be transported rs l. l from hI est estate te to to a ted federal r al storage eorge d depot pot pot- when his pur pur- chases were vcra detected d. d Carbon copies or of o orders taken from pl prominent of tho thol l' l Jum m ring Ing have been seized by the government arid and held hell pending riding de de- de termination of ol the case casc Names nm s of ot- persons persons' known mown to millions mil lions of newspaper p ieT rc d ril were the lie old order r Attorney ALt Tuttle De Denies ies Knowl Knowledge dge NEW Y YORK Nov oV 1 12 13 U Ui Ui-Af- Ui Af Ar After ter making a a. h hurried denial of or knowing anything thing of the matter matte thc the thc pos possibility of or r action involving promInent promInent prominent prom prom- persons Person in m in an outgrowth of tile tho Count CoUill Burt Gd-Burt liquor case U. cane U. U S. S District Attorney Attorney- Tuttle boarded a train for Utica today