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...indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker, gone to England in 1922. switched to the receiving end of the racket and ended up with a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth. Again on trial in Chicago, Oscar Hartzell had maintained a moody silence which he did not break until last week...
...obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
...that he had "warned many workers who came to me for treatment that continuous work in the tunnel would be extremely dangerous. At the same time, the whole thing has been so grossly exaggerated that the filing of the damage suits by former tunnel workers has become almost a racket...
...Still another phase of the 'racket' indulged in by certain lay charlatans in the field is the manufacture of elaborate devices for the administration of colonic irrigations. These machines are part & parcel of the systematized skulduggery practiced by this not inconsiderable group of quacks...
...William Randolph Hearst's New York American, Reporter Mooney last spring wrote a series of articles "exposing" New York's "policy" (numbers game) racket. A Special Grand Jury floundering along in one of the city's perennial vice investigations hopefully summoned him, asked for names & addresses. Reporter Mooney refused to reveal the sources of his information. When he balked at answering the same questions asked by a General Sessions judge, he was sentenced to pay a $250 fine, serve 30 days in jail. The American quickly got him out of jail, carried his case...