CRIME: Filthy Goodies

Little boys are supposedly made of snaps & snails & puppy dog tails. Worse were the ingredients found by Federal inspectors in cheap candy made at the Brooklyn factory of Victor A. Bonomo and sold at goody counters to moppets of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut.

Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of...

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