The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1922, Page 3

“Prohibition is no joke, ia spite of those who pretend they think it is.” SPURNED $29,000 BRIBE IN LIQUOR ARREST, HE SAYS U. S. Agent Testifies He Told Donegan He'd Better Keep » It for His Lawyer. An alleged bribe of $25,000 offered to Internal Revenue Agent George HE. Golding by Edward Donegan at the time the latter was arrested with Miss Regina Sassone in their apart- men in ‘the McAlpin Hotel, was scorned by the Government official, who told Donegan he'd “better keep it for his lawyer.” according to te timony Jay by Golding when he resumed the witness at the second day trial in the eral District Court of Done, Miss Sassone. Both are under in- dictment on a of extensiv traffic in liquor withdrawal p The jurors joined in the laughter frogn spectators, Judge Webb's mouth twitched and even the de- fendant Miss Sassone smiled. W. J- Fallon, Donegan's lawyer, chara Ived the testimony as * The witness described of Donegin's pockets, wh at the time of his : as uw sheaf of telegrams overnment form Papers, a deputy sheriff's gold badge, 4 revolve police permit to curry the contents en searched some it, and $45,500 in cash, The mone; he sald, was in Donegaun's trot pocket. Deseribing Donesun alleged offer to bribe, Golding “Donegan said to nie: ‘I'm one of your own kind. }'m not a tat but a regular feller—just like you, Can't we fix this matter up “T sent my side yurt ner Sei to get Walter Murphy, Internal Revenue Agent, and when he cume [ sent Seib 4nd Miss Sasson: into the next room. ind introduced Bones and Murpiy, Donegan then repeated his words about ‘not being # rit, but © regular feller,” and said ‘fix the matter uj) “T've fixed thingy with better men than you are,’ Donegan declared ti witness said, “I'll give you five ‘grand’ to forget It. “I'm not up on New York slang," the witness said he replied, and was informed that five “grand” meant $5,000. Donegan counted out $6,500, the witness testiticd, and walked out of the room, leaving it un a chair, Gold- ing and Murphy were eng in marking the bills when Donegan re- entered the roi He inquired, ‘What's the id “Only that there will be an addi- tional charge of bribery against you, Golding suid he replied. “This has got to be fixed wu what's your price?” Donegan was de- scribed saying, adding, when in- formed that the witness had no price and would not consider $1,000,000, that “every mun has a price.”* Donegan was then represented to have started counting money, rapidly until he reached $25,000. Miss one, brought back to the room, was suid to have told the wit- ness that she had been paid $100 each for taking some fifty or sixty tele- ns from the office of Charles R O'Connor, at that time Prohibition Director for New York State, in whose office she was empl Donegun, the witness said, insisted that the matter must be ‘fixed,’ and again offered to pay $25,009 “He said he had a wife and child in Brooklyn," testified Golding, “and that this would mean more than jail to him—it would mean divorce when his wife/learned of it."" It was testified yesterday by Harold Rt. Stevenson, a Government witness: that Donegan and Miss Sassone were living #8 Mr. and Mrs. Joyce when arrested. David V. Cahill, Federal Assistant District. Attorney prosecuting the case, read into the record, after hav- ing it identified by Golding, an alleged written confession by Regina Sas- sone which in some respects corrob- rated testimony by Government wit- nesses. The affidavit described a proposal by Donegan, after he had been introduced to Miss one, that she should purloin t from the Prohibition Director's office, for which she was to be paid. She was given sums for such tele- grams amounting ut times to $500 a week, the affidavit stated, the total amounting #0 several thousands of ~i them | 80ing up 4 winding stair with a li rsrams/with Donegan and Miss Sassone, THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.! EVENING WORLD TEN-SECOND NEWS MOVIES “The Prohibition laws are o1 our statute books and must be enforced or repealed.” FUMES KNOCK OUT ANENTIRECOMPANY OF FIRE FIGHTERS Stricken So Suddenly That Some Are Hurled Down Stairs in Burning Building. While ambulance doctors ministered to firemen overcome by chemical fumes during a fire early to-day in the four-story building of the Red- ding Chemical Works, Inc., No. 329 Cust 47th Street, police reserves were busy caring for women who had run from neurby houses with their babies, tany,.of them in nightclothes. Between the fumes and the smoke residents of the populous district be- tween First und Second Avenues bad a disagreeable and exciting time and hundreds filled the streets until the poliice found temporary shelter for stth neighbors, tn gurages, | steres and business buildings. The firemen overcome, all of No. 8 Engine Compuny, were: | Lieut. "William McAlister, Hogstrom, Patrick Gaftngy, Moe. Straus, Andrew Sharp, Charles Bush- kamp, Thomas Dixon, John J. Burns. | Fireman Daly of Engine Company 21 was injured by splintered Peter No. glass. Lieut. McAllister and his men were | the first in the bullding. They were | of hose when they were struck by a| draught of chemical fumes and smoke | | that knocked out the eight so sud-| ‘ denly some of them rolied down stairs | from the sccond to the first floor. Members of Hook and Ladder No. | 2 risked their lives by pushing {nto the smoke and fumes, flinging their unconscious comrades over thetr shoulders and running with them to a} garage across th | revived with pulmotors Dr. Birdshall of Receptt: by} nh Hospital, | to which it was found necessary to take Lieut, MoAllister and Fireman | Hogstrom. | Smoke and fumes spread through the neighborhood so rapidly that two | alarms were sounded and the big ten- ements im the neighborhood were quickly emptied. The flight of scores | was so hurried they did not even take blankets or wraps when they fled over roofs and down fire escapes. Police helped many women stagger- ing under the burden of several chil- dren, Crowds tn neighboring streets | soon numbered severa} thousand, Chief Kenlon arrived on the second alarm and additional eppartus con- fined the flames to the one building, which was damaged about $10,000. The Rev. Father Patrick O'Connor, a chaplain in the Fire Department, was present. —_——— 20 IN BARE FEET ROUTED BY BLAZE Many Explosions at Two-Alarm Brooklyn Fire as 40 Autos Are Burned. Twenty boarders at No, 201 State} Street. Brooklyn, mostly men and in} bare feat, went to the street at 2 A. M. to-day during @ fire at No, 3a three- | story building used mainly as @ garage | and repair shop. Forty automobiles were burned The fire started on the second floor and there were many small explosions as the gasoline tanks cf the automo- biles caught fire. Deputy Chief O'Hara eent a second alurm because of the danger to nearby buildings. The fire w confined to No. 203, doing $75,- 000 damage. As the fire appuratus passed St. Vincent's Home for Boys at State Street and Boerum Place the bells were }mutfled, and the boys did not know there was a fire. dollars. Mr. Cahill introduced as evi- dence telegrams and letters in sup- | port of thirteen counts of the indict- ment charging larceny and conspiracy. Golding testified that many of the telegrams were found in Donegan's overcoat. Sigmund, ‘Beansy’’ Rosenfeld, who ‘was indicted in the Donegan case, but who died recently. entered the room while the Federal agents were talking |Golding said, and after taking some Part in the egnvereation, was attacked | by Donegan and a threat made that| he would ‘get him" if he had had any part in giving information against dum. “Never has there been such opposition to law as that in con- nection with Prohibition,” Outbreak of Lawlessness Is Due to Contempt for Law Engendered by ~ Prohibition and the Volstead Act “I have a higher regard for the An-) BIG INCREASE IN archist than for the Supreme Court Justice who gives you a card to a ‘safe bootlegger.’” “If this (Volstead) law is not sacred ® Prof. Terry of Columbia Has This to Say About Prohibition: . ® By Lindsay Denison. Charles Thaddeus Terry, Professor of Law at Columbia Lo versity, who is to retire from teach- ing in June, is of the opinion that all the crime waves and lawlessness and indifference to public rights to- day are due to the almost universal disobedience and flouting of the Eigh- teenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Volst.ad Act. then n break ~ have a higher regard for tho Bolshevist and Anarchist who ts | against law and looks you in tne ~ eye and says so," he says, “than | have for the Supreme Court Justice who gives you a gard to Dwell) their oaths and the faith of their | fathers that they “At a dinner of members of the bar, six out of seven speeches ridiculed Prohibition,” 0 law is sacred.” “The Judge who breaks a law by buy- ing a bottle of whiskey is giving the most plausible excuse possible to the hungry man who is tempted to another law by stealing the Judge’s pocketbook.” | instruments of all law have so far forgotten their citizenship and n rat an individual law which is no more ard no less sacred than every other law in our whole Govern- ment. If this law is not sacred, enacted in conformity with all our institutions, then no law is sacred. And when we give common and easy consent to disregard for any one law, then we are headed toward anarchy,” They tell me it is ‘unpopular;’ that the majority of the people is against it; that it cannot be enforced. Then, for the sake of Heaven and the Gov- rnment we love, which was framed the Law—but let us do it legully and decentiy ‘a safe bootlegger. This isn’t the reason for his retire-| ment as law professor, of course. He| to attend to i fer is leaving Columbia practice, because he thinks “that thirty years there are enough lawyers | scattered through every State in the] Union who have heard what T have! had to say. It is suficient that among | them there are a few who are so fay, from regarding me with aversion that! they have some affection for me. This might no! to be true.” | always continue Mr. Terry smiles cheerily while he talks, but that is because he is cour- teous to all the world by habit. He in- terrupts his smile when talking about the harm already done andthe dan- ger of more harm to come by the pub- lic contempt of Law, and the Vol- stead Jaw in particular. And he asks you to remember that while he is{ pleasant in discussing it, ho is “‘gocd and plenty hot about it inside.” For purposes of getting a platform from which he can get attention to his preaching—for Mr. Terry's regard for Law duly enacted by representa- tives of the people has something of a religious fervor—-Mr. Terry is will- ing to assume that the Lighteenty Amendment and the Volstead Act ere brought about by enormous pressure exerted by « small group of fanatics." He 1s willing to assume “put over”? while way in France, at that the laws we the soldiers were a time when the folks at Lome were eager to forego anyting—money, coal, sugar, meat—when told it was for the country’s good. He admits that if the law had been made to suit his personal tastes it would be “a temperance law, and not an absolute and indiscriminating prohibition."” “But,” he retorts to these assump- tions, “if the people have been fooled into adopting an unwise law—if they have adopted a law which they have learned not to like—there is just one way, and only one decent American way, of getting that law repealed or amended. And that is to enforce it 60 jong as it remains a law.” “You can’t sit down to dinner,” he said, ‘without having Judg and lawyers begin winking and chuckling over the ease with which the Volstead Act oan be "The Judge who breaks a law by buying a bottle of whiskey is giving the most plausible excuse possible to the hungry man who is tempted to break another law pocket- “Prohibition ts no joke, in spite o those who try to make it a joke or pretend that they think it is a joke. So far from being a joke, it is Law, the mandate of the majority, which in a democracy {s supposed to gov- ern. It is little less than sickening to find those who pretend to glory in our democratic Mstitutions, who put out their flags on national holi- days, who cheer loudly at any pa- triotic sentiment, who would be in- expressibly shocked to be told to their faces that they are ‘bad citizens,’ nevertheless doing everything tiey can to undermine respect for Law. “When the respect for Law is atinet in our citi- zens our Gavernment will fall. Never has there been such a riot of opposition to law and such connivan: at its overthrow as has marked the conduct of the so-called ‘best people’ in connec- tion with the Prohibition statutes.” “The' other day a District Attorney of Pennsylvania boasted that he gave a ‘party’ to twenty-four other public officials, including Judges and mem- bers of his staff, and that because of the influence of some of the other public officials in attendance were able to buy and transport and serve alcoholic beverages at their dinner, violating the law three dit- ferent ways. “At a very largely attended dinner of members of the Bar here about a year ago the subject of six out of seven speeches was ridicule of the Prohibition laws. Think of it! A party of lawyers, sworn by their oath of office to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the State, chuckling with satisfaction over stories of suc- cessful defeat of the statutes which they, as officers of the court, were bound to uphold, “All this would be highly amusing {f it were not so deadly calamitous. “The Law, in this country, is not @ mere series of legislative or govern- mental pronouncements decreed ly some arbitrary or tyrannical powe It is the pronouncement brought about by an opinion of the people cheated. Judges will offer you the address of a man who will have liquor sent to you on a truck with a Government agent sitting with the driver and a Government | cense number on the railboar Men who are chosen and, namep by our fathers, let us take it out of they | “All_ this would be highly amusing if it were not so deadly calamitous.” “Judges will offer you the ad- dress of a man who will have liquor sent to you on a track.” DRUNKENNESS AND PICKPOCKETING nounced yesterday that the reo- ords of the Vingerprint Bu- reau show: The number of persons fin- gerprinted last year exceeds by 12 per cent. those of 1920, an Increase of 15 per cent. among women and 11 per cent, among men, Public Intoxication cases in- creased from 6,691 to 6,278, oF 10 per cent, There was an increase of 309 per cent. in cases of soliciting alms and of 61 per cent. in Vagrancy cases. Public prostitution in all phases increased more than 26 per cent, While there is an increase for the year, the number of such cases fur the last ten years fell off to.a large degree, In this respect New York ig conspicuously in ad- vance of ull other world cap- itals, Pickpockets increased more than 8 per cent. All other disorderly conduct cases decreased about 2% per cent. BRITISH LIQUOR SHIP UNDER STRONG GUARD |Commander of Miami Atro! Squadron Awalts Wash- ington Order MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 21.—Local Prolii- | bition agents to-day professed to be Chief Magistrate McAdoo an- | TEAGHERS COLLEGE ONLY SMILES OVER BANBY NEBRASKA Western Fear That Students May Smoke Is Declared Unfounded. Teachers College of Columbia Unt- versity is smiling to-day over the innocence of the State Normal ‘Hoard of Nebraska, which will not grant any of the te Normal College in that State leave of abseyce to at tend Columbia because of allexations that elghrette smoking is common in the colle Dr. M.A School of Pri Dean Russell, was a temp The anes tion of smoking never hax arisen tn the faecnity and never has come before the committee of the students. The whole question arose last year when two students were expelled from Whittier Hall, which is gov- erned by the students, the hall being a dormitory. These two smoked and teacher or of the resenting whole thing Art, the said st ina teapot were put out of the jiall, but that carried no expulsion from the col- lege. AS a matter of fact, Dr. Tigclow says, becuuse the students at Barnard are older than the most colleges and are taking post-graduate the Combined Religious Societies of the college, suys there is no smoking and the matter never has been con- sidered of importance enough to have any action taken. Dean Russell, she said, declared some time ago he would expel uny member of the faculty who smoked —_— without official information as to the seizure Sunday off Jewfish Creex, about forty miles south of Miami, by airplanes, of the British schooner Annabelle with 11,600 cases of intoxl- cating liquors on board. All airplanes in the uadron left Miami last night, Capt. L. Rogers commanding one of them. stating that he would make no report to Federal authorities as the | squadron, was operating under direct lorders from’ Washington. He said he ld placed a strong guafd over the | schooner and {ts contraband cargo and added that the vessel will not be moved from its anchorage off Jewfisn Creek until advices as to its disposal are received from Washington } oe 3 DRY MEN ARRESTED AFTER RAIDING SHIP Released, bat Others Held—200 Quarts Seized. NORFOLK, Feb, 21.—A Vedoral raid jing party of three men was arrested to day as it returned from a \Itatian ship laden with 200 quarts of Prohibition here, One Are raid on an | Howard H. Fisher, Suffolk Dry Agent. was dismissed in Police Court when he proved his identity und 1 stored to him. Bernurd Buckman and Bernard Davis, deputized to assist him, refused to testify and were hid under bond on charges of violating State liquor lquor re- liquer to be held as evidence, i PREDICTS FLIGHTS TO ENGLAND IN '24 British Dirigible Expert Sees 50 Mile an Hour Passenger and Mail Servic P. G. M. Ommanney, expert in the outfitting af dirigibles and their main- tenance, who had charge of the prep aration of the R-31 for its successful transatlantic trip und assembled the supplies for the ZR. which fell in the Humber, and hgd a part in the eqnip- ment of the R38, urrived here to-day, on the White Star Liner Cedric. He is on a commercial! mission and is no longer In the British service. Mr Ommanney predicted that with proper co-operation between seronuutical in terests here and in England a fifty mile an hour passenger und fast mail air service between England and the United States would be in operation by the spring of 1924 British confidence in such ventures has reached the stage that active ar rangements are already being muerte for a regular dirigible servien betwern @ and Tadia aut A laws. AMERICANS SING GOD SAVE THE KING; | | TOODRYINU.S.A. | Copyright, 1922 (The New York: Hvening | World), by Press Publishing Co. LONDON, Feb. 21— The Morning Post says that Amer- | icans in London now sing: | Sing a song of sixpense, } A bottle full of rye. at | Four and twenty Yankees | themselves, ers into ev Y | | moment a oe dally. tte, so. that Sitting parched and dry lin a very true sense ‘we live the When the rye was opened !Law.’ The proper administration of The Yanks began to sing: the law, the effective exert ‘ay “We won't go back to U.S A aes ai tp the maintenance a God €bveie wont }Ommanney expoets to be In the United States about a month. When is not in Washington he will be tl wuest here of Dr. Titus, No. of Hast 68th Street. Se FIRE DOBS $2,000 DAMAGE IN WEsT EAD HOME Only the maid and thy laundress wore jin the home of A. F. Henriques st No. {829 West End Avenue tis morning when ja fire started in the library. ‘The super intendent was called and he tured in a still alarm. By the time the fire apparatus arrived the servants had nearly subdued the fire. There was! [92.000 damage In two rooms. Other ten ants of the seven-story building were roused but did not leave the building ——————— ENGINEERS DISCUSS OTL SUPPLY, More than a thousand engineers from all parts of the world snthered here to-day for a business meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The world's re 8 future rves in relation to Americ rupply was the leading tor 1. Col, Arthur &. 1% *K waa elected t'r te n inolude Georg I? ‘ William Ht Hyssets W ' » Thomas | en Col, and William acuey, Val work there is less smoking than in any college in the country. He does not know of a single case of a stu- dent who has acquired the habit in| the college. And he does not know any that smoke. Miss Julia Gethm: retary of | | | “I Welleve in a temperance law, but not absolute and indixcrimi- nate Prohibition.” “If it-cannot be enforced, for the sake of Heaven let us take it out of the law.” JUSTICE GANNON RAPS JURY CRITICS, Brooklyn Jurist Deprecates Atiitude | of Manhattan Judges Where | Evidence of Police Figures. Justice Frank §. Gannon jr., ag: dressing talesmen in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, to-day deprecated the attitude of Manhattan Judges in criti- clsing Jurors who seemed unduly len- jtent to accused persons and who as- serted they did not give the same weight to the testimony of a police- man as to a distinterested He said: witness “L concede and assert the seneral fine, manly character of the men who compose our police force, but when an officer who has maile an arrest because he Believes he found the culprit takes the witness stand, he! is u perfect jIustration of the type of the interested witness. 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