MUSICA SWINDLE
MUNITIONS MERCHANT ARRESTED t EXPECTED TO PROVIDE MISSING LINK. OFFERS OF ARMAMENTS MADE THROUGH DRUG FIRM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 21. Benjamin Simon, munitions merchant, was arrested tonight. He was an important executive of the drugmanufacturing firm of McKesson and Robbins, and investigators have identified him with the Benjamin Simon who was tried in 1929 when the swindler Philip Musica was charged with perjury in connection with the poultry racket and the murder of Barnet Baiff. Musica disappeared and Simon was sentenced to three months’ jail. G-men expect Simon to provide a missing link with the past as he was. associated with Musica during the period when the latter was changing his name to Coster. Investigators have that Simon’s address is the address given on Coster’s fradulent birth certificate.
G-men have established that offers of armaments were made by agents of Musica’s drug firm to Mexico, China, Bolivia, Paraguay, Dominica, Uruguay and Columbia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 7
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157MUSICA SWINDLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 7
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