Marcellus H. Thompson (right) presenting Thompson Model of 1919 Submachine Guns to Captain Charles Schofield of the New York City Police Department, in the fall of 1920, eight months before the East Side scandal erupted in June, 1921.
After Thompsons were discovered aboard the East Side on their way to Ireland, this photograph was resurrected and reproduced in 1922 over the following caption:
Col. Marcellus H. Thompson, Vice President and active head of the Auto-Ordnance Corporation, at right, who has been indicted, with seven others, by a Federal Grand Jury, charged with being involved in an alleged attempt to ship arms to Ireland, a violation of neutrality Laws. Nearly five hundred machine to sail for Europe. Col. Thompson is the son-in-law of Ambassador Harvey, and is a son of General John T. Thompson, noted inventor of rapid fire and machine guns. |
