Charged with conspiring to defraud the parents of a pre-medical student of $500 on the pretense of enabling the student to enter a medical college, two men will be arraigned in First District Magistrate’s Court tomorrow.
The two are Beard John Dupree, a tax attorney of 22 East Thirty-eighth street, and Martin Ira Phillips, an accountant of 844 East Forty-eighth street, Brooklyn.
Both men were arrested two weeks ago on information given Assistant District Attorney Maurice G. Wahl by Louis Vogel, a clothing contractor of 1222 Avenue R, Brooklyn, who parted with the $500 in vain.
According to Mr. Wahl, Phillips represented himself as a professor, doctor and colonel.
At the trial, Wahl is expected to disclose the existence of a widespread racket which for years has been preying on the parents of Jewish college students who have been aiming at entrance to medical schools, but who for one reason or another have been unsuccessful in their attempts to gain admittance.
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