Prisoner No. 1 was "Tootsie" Herbert. Prisoner No. 2 was Dave Kaufman. Prisoner No. 20 was Charley ("The Bum") Gershowitz. Prisoner No. 45 was Herman Berman. Prisoner No. 65 was Abraham Pepper. Prisoner No. 73 was Goodman Levy. Prisoner No. 86 was Hyman Matofsky. There were, in all, 81 prisoners (five of the 86 being absent, nolle prossed or admittedly guilty). New York poultry men all, indicted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, all being tried simultaneously in the court of Federal Judge John C. Knox, they presented several difficult problems in the...
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