The Musica Brothers Were Criminals
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OUT CF PAST - This picture
released by the New York State
Commission of Correction shows
Philip Musiea at the time of his
entrance to E mir.i Reform a ten'
in 1909 on charges of bribery and
making false entry.
A; his Fa'.nAsld home, where1
he was “ill,” Mr. Coster was fin- I
gerprinted. ‘Testy,” he grumbled I
at th? proceed ngs. Twelve hours | g
later the reason for his grousing ■
became clear. Tipped off by a: fl
man who had once worked with I
Musica and recognized Coster’s I
p'cture in the papers, Mr. Me- Sj
Call had matched Coster’s finger- %
prints with Musica’s and found I
them identical. |
F. Donald Coster read the I
story of his true identity in the A
morning papers. As two U. S.
marshals drove up to his house,
he gulped a drink of whiskey,
locked himself in the bathroom,
poked a evolver in his ear and
pulled ithe trigger. The marshals
found him in the bathtub with I
his feet sticking out. His wife,
for whom he had named his
yacht, was pacing the floor down
stairs and wailing: “My God,
Daddy, why did you do it?”
While rumors flew and suits
p:led up. Treasurer Thompson
and a few others stubbornly in-1
sisted that the company would
not be wrecked. In Wall Street,
which remembered Richard Whit
ney and Ivar Kreuger, savage
wit ras riot. F. Donald Coster’s
epitaph became: “He couldn't
face the Musica.”
SURRENDER IN DRUG FIRM PROBE F. Donald Coster, presi
c^nl oi McKesson and Robins, Inc., and George S. Dielnch, assisli
£,mt treasurer, are shown at Coster's name in Fairfield, Conn., with
th.ir attorney, Samuel Reich, as they surrendered to government
agents following the discovery of apparent shortages of $18,000,001)
in the company’s iisied assets.
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SCENE 07 COSTER SUICIDE This is the blood-.spat lered bath- 1
room in which “F. Donald Cosier,” who really was Philip Musica.
?x-convict, killed himself following revelation of his identity.
Coster-iMusLca tumbled portly into the bathtub as officers rapped
on the door of his mansion to re-arrest him.
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COSTER'S BODY REMOVED FROM PALATIAL HOME The body of F. Donald Coster Presi
dent of McKesson and Robbins Co., is shown as it was carried from his palatial home in Fairfield,
Conn., where he killed himself when his true identity was revealed to ba Philip Musica, ex
convict. Custer-Musica shot him self in the head as officers arrived to re-arrest him.
VERNARD ARGUES WITH OF
FICERS Thi? piclure, taken by
a Nrw York Daily News photo
grapher, shows George Vernard,
peering out a window of his i
Brooklyn home to argue with
officers who came to re-arrest,
him in the McKesson and Rob
bins investigation. He came out
to be revealed as the brother of
Philip Musica, who posed as F.
Donald Coster and rose to the
presidency of the big drug firm.
Endorsement
“Pa, what is flattery?”
“Flattery, my son, is having
somebody else tell us the nice
things we have always thought
about ourselves.”
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