United States Marshal Al. White
Advising Criminals
There is a strong connection be
tween A1 White, United States Mar
shai, William H. Caswell, his chief
deputy at Ketchikan and Sandy
Levy, long reputed to be a leading
bootlegger and other worse things,
also of Ketchikan.
When Levy was arrested and
tiled recently on a charge cf being
drunk and disorderly, guard Davis
was an important witness as to the
fact of drunkenness. He told spe
cial officer Fred Handy that Levy
was “crazy drunk.” But when he
was on the witness stand, he denied
the drunkenness and said that Levy
vans “crazy” and had no smell oc
liquor on him,” a statement that
was refuted by every other enforce
ment officer called witness.
This change in Davis’s testimony
has been attributed to the special
infrrest which chief deputy Casweh
has in Levy, for on good authority
wo have on it that “There was noth
ing that Caswell hated to do more
than arrest Levy.”
Enters Marshal White
Marshal White arrived conveni
oiitly in Ketchikan very soon after
levy was convicted to take a prison
er to Juneau. He also made it ‘‘con
v< nient” to talk to George Grigsby,
Levy’s attorney, and gave Grigsby
some free advice.
“I don’t believe that a prohibi
tion officer has any right to arrest
a man for being drunk and disor
derly' under the Volstead Act” the
UNITED STATES MARSHAL SAID.
‘‘Furthermore, I believe you ought
to appeal the case, and I am sure,
even if you lose, the worst you will
get is $250. fine.”
Has any thing worse ever occur
red in the history of Alaska than
this instance of the SWORN OFFIC
ER OF THE LAW advising a con
victed prisoner to appeal assuring
him that the worst he would get
would be a fine of $250. instead of
the six months jail and $750. im
posed on him in the Commissioner’s
court? MARSHALS ADVISING
CONVICTED BOOTLEGGERS! ! !
4nd why the special interest of
the United States Marshal in Sandy
L^vy, a notorious bootlegger? Why
tie former frequent meetings al
ways in Seattle Salt Lake City, and
other places between this influential
personage of the underworld and
White then applying for the job of
Uirted States Marshal in this Firs;,
Division of Alaska? “Conveniently’
stopping at the same hotel at timss.
Even the boat Helmar purchased
to chase bootleggers was so purchas
ed under the interested eye of Sandy
L-j\y by his “friend” Albert White,.
Was the meeting “accidental9*
White says it was. Well then, was
the Marshal’s advice to appeal
Levy’s case another “accident” of
the same kind?
We are getting too many “acci
dents” for the public good.
The $250. Assurance
What was the meaning behind the
assurance that “the worst Levy
would get would be a $250. fine.”
Does White expect to use his in
fluence with the “new judge.”
We Charge
We charge that Albert White,
former saloon keeper, is unfit for the
position of United States Marshal;
That he has violated his oath of
office by encouraging convicted crim
inals to appeal with the assurance
that the penalty would be greatly
reduced;
That White has forced his depu
ties to make “contributions” to pa;
his (White’s) expenses while he
journeyed to Idaho ostensibly to
campaign for Senator Gooding;
That for this and other pretend
ed reasons, White has compelled
the deputies (respecte.d by the Peo
pie of Ketchikan) to resign because
these deputies could not come thru
with a sufficient “contribution^”
That Marshal White continues to
employ C. V. Brown as deputy mar
shai, Brown has been guilty of bru
taFty to men in process of arrest for
no cause whatever, on one occasion
Brown clubbed an unresisting pris
oner up a flight of stairs numbering
about 100.
That Marshal White has turned,
his department into an institution
of private graft, hiring his relative*
and shifting prisoners from place to
place so that lie and his relatives
could collect “blood money” at so
much per day;
That by his negligence he not on
ly aPowed a prisoner to escape but
he was not aware of the escape foi
several days and only discovered >
when the prisoner’s attorney called
for him;
For these and many other reas
ons, and for his misfeasance ami
malfeasance in office, for his coles
sal ignorance, illiteracy and bung.
MARSHAL ALBERT W H I T E
SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS
OFFICE.
(Signed > WILLIAM L. PAUL
INSURANCE MONOPOLY IS
ASKED FOR STATE
•State Industrial Insurance Com
rr. issioner James A. Hamilton of
New York favors a state monopoly
of workmen’s compensation and tim
elimination of private insurance
concerns. With an exclusive State
fund, Mr. Hamilton said, employers
would not only be saved nearly 2J
per cent of the premiums they now
pay, but they would be relieved of
responsibility for injury or death of
employees. Under the present sys
tem, if an insurance company fails,
the employer is responsible for tho
compensation.