Show I Can an Bootlegging Be Stopped By y E. E M. M THIERRy THIERRY NEW YORK YOUK Jan 20 The O.-The The booze bootlegging bootlegging boot boot- legging b business of or the counti count is on trial in ew York The case case is h that of the United States against Harold L L. Hart former federal prohibition director for the state of New NewYork NewYork York and 19 other defendants If they are found guilty It will be the greatest blow yet et struck In the name of prohibition law enforcement n d result it I is If they Tire acquitted C I the believed will be a tremendous increase In bootle boldness It is n entirely a question of Harts Hart's personal guilt or innocence The Tile big question is whether it Is possible pos pos- sible sibie for a a. conspiracy for the tIle fraudulent use of liquor withdrawal permits to ex exist ex- ex l 1st with tentacles reaching e ching Into a prohibition pro tro- directors director's office MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD Fake oale permits releasing at least 1000 coo worth of liquor from bonded warehouse warehouses ware ware- houses house are involved In In the conspiracy charged In Indictments against Hart and fifteen en other Individuals and four drug concerns Politics played a part the tho Indictment cha charges Among those named are William WilliamA to Charles S S. S A A. Orr who was secretary se Whitman when the latter was governor of or New York and Owen B Ii D. Murphy and Thomas F. F Duffy prominent in Tammany Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many politics polItic Two Tw of Director ex-Director Harts Hart's clerks clerIcs were werf also indicted Thomas Indicted Thomas M iii I. I teddy Reddy and Michael 3 J. J. J Lynch The governments government's sudden offensive fated created a n wide country-wide sensation be because because be- be cause calise the narre of the prohibition di- di of the blite biggest t district In the United United Unit Unit- ed d States Mates headed the tre Hart is III out cut on bail ban So 0 o are the theother oth other r defendants Rubber tubber stain stam signatures on liquor withdrawal permits are Involved ed In tn fm HIO case It Is charged that the plot Induced ed the issuance e of false folle permits hearing bearl Director Harts Hart's stamped signature sup- sup Iem by the signature of ClerK Red fledy I Hart became prohibition director last May iday 26 aru ard 1 resigned October 6 G. G Shortly after his resignation he told the writer then engaged In a It wide nation-wide I of prohibition enforcement for 13 h. A A. A Se Elv vic c. c that rubber stamps were used In the tile New office He lie said they Wll eie cd authon c in ir Washington I Hart was asked ed at that time time- timeto to tell teU the Inside story of or the bleak breakdown own of pro pro- I t I enforcement Th This is the only statement Hart would make mii 1 My ly idea of enforcement differed rad- rad llly IC from hat liat of both Kramer and Hay Hane formel and present federal pro pro- commissioner ner re respectively X I think thin will be enforced en en- ell I forced nut But I 1 urn t think their I sj systems stems were I LAWYER AND JUDGE I Hart is a Binghamton nl h N N. Y I lawyer l' l 39 years old and chairman I n of f 1 his s county I i Republican committee He lIe Is married I and has a It son He lie was a football at Cornell He lie is III big and star tar muscular I with a full round shaven clean face and ver very I hair hall His hits friends call him Blondy Hart Twice he was elected city judge in Binghamton and he resigned from the bench to become state tate prohibition director director I tor at a It salary of or a It year ear The federal indictment Assistant Unit Unit- Unit Unit-I ed Id States District Mattuck Attorney Maxwell S S. S points out does dou not charge a violation of ot the act It Charges a It conspiracy to defraud the United States States' government i The conspiracy It is charged Involved application by drug concerns I for withdrawal through Orr Ott permits and proposed that the director would approve permits ex cx- the quantity the concerns entitled to to and that permits No o. o were I eX-I to ZOO inclusive were to be issued though at the time the highest and last al although although al- al permit properly issued did exceed not When a permit is presented to a It die dis- I Ullery tillery or denier dealer it is the latter's duty ac according ae- ae cording to law to Inquire of ot tho the director by mall mail whether I the 1 Is iii That genuine Clerk lerk rk T Tile The Lynch indictment received charges the e permit registered regis regis- gIS I I te mall mail at the tho directors director's office fl That the I conspiracy Included d tile the e sendIng sending sendIng send- send Ing to tho the end vendor r of a verification of or the pe permits permit in q question lo tl h jaS That the e plan was i to keep keep no col s sl l in the directors director's office of the liquor obtained ob ob- ob- ob on these permits That it was planned to remove from the flies files and destroy records of or other withdrawals by the drug concerns in In In- I |