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Show MILLION IN I HAIR FRAUDS I Members of Musica Family Under Arrest in New Orleans B New Orleans, Mar. 19 Charged I with defrauding banks in this coun-r coun-r and Europe of approximately a i million dollars. Antonio Musica of e York and his three sons, George, Irthur and Phillip were arrested on the Bteamer Heredla today Two daughters of the elder Musica. Ionise and Grace, also were detained. The partv was taken Into eustodv just before the departure of the Heredia for Colon. W hen searched at the po- j lice headquarters $50,000 were taken from Arthur Musica and about $10,. f 000 more from other members of the j The Muslcas carried with them nine j pieces of baggage which the police j hauled to headquarters It Is be- if lieved that much more money and ' valuable papers will be recovered j when their trunks are opened j The party will be taken back to r New York at once Ll Antonio Musica Is nearly 70 years j M od Phillip about 80 For years they M had been importers of cheese; in 1910 i the government charged them with j underwelghing frauds and Phillip. M si I'-ldiug his father pleaded juilltv and I was sentenced to a year's imprison- j menl Shortly afterward his sentence v.. i- commuted l". President Taft and. j returning to New York, he again lie- j cume associated with his father in I M Hair goods now became their spe- M cialty and banks for months nego- M tiated their paper until the recent j repudiation of a draft, the attach- : m nt of tiieir property, charges of j Criminal manipulation of invoices In-solving In-solving hundreds of thousands, then ij flight of the entire family, including Ij two daughters, J Notice of the dissolution of Mitchell and company was posted todaj on the Btock exchange. It was said that the , dissolution whs forced by the gover- J nors of the exchange because the Hi in manipulated on tbe outside market the stock of the I'nited Stales Hair company, recently organized in the ,- |