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‘fm Quinto’s laboratory. :- f The Government spent. all its ergy: to unearth full details ‘mbout the syndicate for which Cap- ‘tain Quinto worked. It was close ‘Lepke Indicted As Dope Smuggler - “The ‘big name of all the accused | Leopard. Prosecutor Martin said ye had evidence the Leopard had #inanced two shipments of heroin © rom Shanghai, the last .one -no Jonger ago than February, 1937. *- It is more understandable now “why, in July, 1937, Lepke skipped his $10,000 bail and failed to ap- ; r for an anti-trust trial, a + similar to one he already aten and which, at most, dbr- ‘aried a 4-year penalty. -- . “\S- Without doubt he knew ‘.@mugglers was that of Lepke the | mhe had pulled it out before) but wuite another to plump on all : Into a desdfall, | with. escape a Twenty alleged members of the ay yndicate were under arrest. when : ‘ sannounced- the -todlet- . dsman., - "For: ‘bribes of ‘$1,000; “the “eus- 28 people ’-were — accused of ‘at. the importation - of peroin over New, York City piers. State Dept. Outwits. “International Menace’ | : ‘One - -of the principals in the turned -out to -be: Yasha ¥. He had bootlegged here during e dry era, and turned to fope ‘plosion at Captsin--Quinto’s, he fied his home at 10 Park View er, The Bronx, in 1936, and started @ fruit business in Ru- mania, Rum has no . extradition usi On : sentence day Prosecutor Mar-: tin told Judge Goddard that four ‘of Katzenbere’s lieutenants had. been murdered over a _Hive-year| tzenberg, who -was ‘branded | ter repeal. Scenting what might |! ‘in store for him after the ex- | F<ne prison Was prearra potential witnesses against Lepke > Under the scornful cross-exam- ination of Max D. Bteuer, Erick- eon related his biography. a tale pf derring-do. that is -hard -to fout-again occupant of Mexican jails with walls and doors like pe rere ’ In the end, he declared the Fed- eral Government had -promised to | wend him back to China, whence | ihe came voluntarily to answer his indictment. “and shows how tt Tits ‘Into story ot i “Tepke, Leopard, of the “a hy a eran EP ree ees a fateh tm the dry Mles'of Federal Hwas in the nature of an alibi,” phe Leopard whenever the: P-author~ . { | From the standpoint of ates’