Show CONVICTS S BUY WAY TO EASIER TASKS Charges of Bribery Being Investigated New York n An An Investigation Into In Into into in- in to a system of or bribery whereby well well-to-do convicts con sentenced ente to toE federal E erni penitentiaries at Atlanta and Leavenworth especially for liquor law violations and stoc stock frauds have been heen able to get themselves themselves them them- selves transferred to less onerous confinement In army detention camps cutups such as ns those at Fort Olt Wadsworth Walls Wads worth here and Camp Meade leade lid Md Il has bag been hEen under way b by the tile Department Department Depart Depart- m ment nt of Justice for several weeks The first intimation of the existence existence existence exist exist- ence of such a u system was obtained d Ii by federal authorities here some months ago ngo with the discovery ofa of ot ofa a n letter in the pocket of Paul Panl Rub- Rub kin a 11 convicted watch smuggler in the Manhattan federal bull building in with Solomon secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of ot the company and Joseph JosephY Y Y Pearlman was sentenced to the Atlanta penitentiary in Jul July 1930 G Gets ts Two Years The trio had plea pleaded ed guilty to charges of ot smuggling watch movements movements movements move move- ments valued at OOOO Into this port from Switzerland and d defrauding defrauding defraud defraud- ud rN ing the government out of ot In duties and Pearlman got not two years each and Hubman was sentenced for 18 months Some time later however when the federal authorities wanted to confront n a new ne suspect and und th they sent to Atlanta for him It was found that he was at Fort Wadsworth He was brought blought to the courthouse here Afterwards when he wa way was taken tJ back ck to Fort Wadsworth and searched It was discovered that some seine one had given Ht him a letter while In New York The letter was from Iron a n convict at Atlanta It disclosed that th the writer writ wrIt- er had hud obtained the time necessary funds and wanted to follow example In obtaining a transfer fer to Fort Wadsworth Questioned by federal authorities admitted admitted ad ud- that he had bought a transfer trans trans- transfer fer for himself for tor 1000 and that his two associates had hind also bought transfers the prices being 1000 and each Learn of Transfers Tranders Department of Justice agents under John E Edgar al' al Hoover chief Investigator Investigator Investigator In In- at t Washington began an nn investigation atlon The They learned that other transfers had been made under under under un un- der similar conditions However It was not always easy to ascertain ascer ascer- tain tale whether the transfers had hind been paid f for r. r Because of the overcrowded overcrowded over oyer- crowded con condition of the penitentiaries penitentiaries penitentiaries at Atlanta and una Leavenworth federal prison a authorities ha have ve vema ma made e It a practice recently to transfer transfer transfer trans trans- fer as many prisoners as possible to arm army detention camps Nearly Neatly 1 1500 OO prisoners h have he e been scattered scattered scat scat- through h these camps Among other notorious s prisoners who are said to hn have hare e obtained transfers from A Atlanta to army detention detention detention de de- de- de camps is Harry Halry Goldhurst operator of ot a Manhattan bucket shop sloop and financial adviser of ot Bishop Bishop Bishop Bis Bis- hop Cannon and friend of Samuel Radlow once an intimate of ot the time late Vivian Gordon Goldhurst was sentenced to five years ears in Atlanta for tor his bucket shop sloop operations |