Two men were arrested and booked on charges of conspiracy Friday afternoon as a climax to the exposure and investigation of racketeers preying on pre-medical school students who seek entrance into medical schools. Assistant District Attorney Maurice G. Wahl recommended the arrests after a two-hour deliberation in his office, 137 Centre street.
The men were taken by Detective Harry Leichtblau, who is assisting Wahl in the investigation, to the Elizabeth street station house. They were booked there and later taken to the Clinton street station where they were placed in cells.
The names they gave police are Beard John Dupree, 22 East Thirty-eight street, 34, a tax attorney, and Martin Ira Phillips, 844 East Forty-eighth street, Brooklyn, 36, accountant.
Louis Vogel, 1222 Avenue R, Brooklyn, clothing contractor, is the complainant. He assertedly paid Phillips $500 on the promise that the former would gain access to a bona fide medical school for Vogel’s son, now studying at Long Island University.
INVESTIGATOR ATTENDS MEETING
Another Long Island University student whose mother says she presented the two men with a check for $900, testified against them Friday but asked reporters to withhold his name. Present at the hearing was Professor W. C. McTavish, chairman of the committee on recommendations to medical and dental schools of New York University, who precipitated the whole investigation by exposing one of the cases.
In both cases the students were refused admittance to medical schools after the men had informed their parents that for a consideration everything would be fixed up.
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