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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 4
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An article of the same date stated that Assistant
Prosecutor FRANK B. FERGUSON said that no perjury warrant could be issued
against GOLDBERG because there is no way to prove that he gave a false
statement under oath.
A "Detroit hews"” article deted February 5, 1925, in
sunnariaing the available information concerning GOLOBIRG stated that
GOLDBERG and CANTOR had sold sugar in partnership before the Volstead Act
was put into effect. After the prohibition laws were passed most of their
customers were bootleszzers due to the fact that sugar was a necessary ine
sredient to the meking of bootleg whiskey. GOLDBERG and CANTOR began to
get rich on this business and hi-jackers and black=usilers began to put
oressure on them, After SFED= was killed GOLDBERG and CANTOR imported SOL
OCURAD, "a New York gunaan and killer! to act as their bodyguard, The
article mentioned that after CORAD was killed the case against FERO and
BERCNE, ebove-describ ed as his murderers, was dropped.
This article mentioned that GOLDB=RS has made over
100,000.00 in the sugar business by selling to bootieszers and in his will
@ trust fund has been set up leaving a substantial amount of money to the
men who kill his murderers, if he is murdered,
An article dated July 25, 1933, related that Judge W.
LeliAY CETLLUEN has set up 4 one-man grand jury to investigate rackets in
Detroit and said that he wanted to subpoena GOLDBERG to question him about
recent hi-jeckings of sugar, GEORGE KRISH, Chief Assistant Frosecuting
Attorney, said that he had been informed that GOLDBERG had been shot 4 week
previous when an attempt was made to kidnap him on Hazelwood Avenue and that
GOLDBERG is missing at the present time,
An article dated July 27, 1933, stated that Inspector
WILLIAM J. COLLINS of the Detroit Folice Department was quoted as saying
CCLDBERS was the victim of an attempted holdup on July 15, 1933, when
he left his apartment house at 1920 Collingwood ctreet. COLLINS stated
that GOLDBERG was struck on the head during the altercation that followed
enc at the present time he is recuperating at Bear Lake near Kanistee,
Wichican, but, according to his wife, would come to Uetroit if he is wanted,
A follow-up article dated July 3lst stated that GOLDBERG was served with a
subpoena by FRIGE and mentioned that GOLDB:RG is now a partner in the
Alaska herring Comneny.
& news article dated duly 30, 1940, stated that the
United States Attorney General's Office is mahing an investigation of state
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