Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-14
SCOUTS OFF GUARD.
A Wet Sunday Proves an Unlucky
One for Four Speak-Easies.
THE INSPECTORS CLEVER PLAN.
Mrs. Beckers Place Within Stones Throw
of the Central.
cOPIOUS SUPPLY OF LIQUOR FOUND

1t was a cold and wet day for "speak-
essies." The patrons of these places
thought the rain would keep the police IN
dry hooks, and they were unprepared for
general raids.
About IL o'clock in the forenoon Inspector
McAleese left his house in the Eleventh
ward and walked down to the corner OF
Wylie avenue and kirkpatrick street.
While be was standing there waiting for
car, he noticed a party of men turn down
Soho street. From their appearance he
thought they were going to speak-easy,
and it set him to thinking how he might
catch the proprietor of place which had
been bothering him for several months. At
No. q Soho street. John Boden has been
running an illegal saloon ever since the Ii
censes were granted last spring. His place
was resorted to by very disreputable ele-
ment. Complaints concerning it have been
made to the police by Rev. w. H. Knox
and other persons living in the Thirteenth
ward. Last June an information
was made against Boden, but he
escaped arrest by leaving the city.
The Inspector learned of his return to town
about two weeks ago and had been watching
for him.. Boden kept sentries posted who
gave warning on the approach of police,
and officers who went there found neither
drink nor drinkers. Boden is a man only
25 years old, and has a wife and two chill
dren.
OFF THEIR GUARD ON WET DAYS.
The Inspector considered a rainy day the
best time to swoop down upon the place.
He returned 10 his house, called up De-
tective Coulson at City Hall by telephone
and told him to get Captain Siivis and a
policeman, procure a carriage and drive as
rapidly as possible to the corner of Kirk
patrick and Wylie. Twelve minutes later
a carriage with its blinds drawn down, and |
pulled BY two white horses, dashed up to the |
corner named. Itcontained Captain Daniel |
Silvis, Detectives Coulson, Demmel and |
MulyehiIl. Inspector McAleese and Officer |
Henry Deale were waiting on the corner,
the carriage door was opened and they |
crawled in, six in box. The carriage was |
then driven rapidly down Soho street |
to No. q, where it pulled up |
suddenly. Both sidedoors were opened. |
The officers jumped out and ran |
for the doors, three to the rear and three to |
the front. The occupants were surprised at |
their drinks Boden ran up stairs and was |
dragged from under O bed. Michael Nc |
Gillicutt was found lying on the floor, |
stupid with liquor. Eight other men sat |
about the saloon room and were taken in. |
The police found ten eighth kegs of beer |
from John Kaufman's brewery, Cincinnati, |
and several bottles of whisky. The place |
was very dirty.
ANOTHER HAUL MADE.
As soon as the prisoners were secured, |
Captain Silvis and Officer Mulvehill hurried |
to the house of Mrs. Eliza Cullighan, at No. |
Ill Soho street and raided that place They |
found several cases of beer from Pier & |
Dannals, and arrested Mrs. Cullighan, Edwin |
McKibbou, Peter Voelker, James Williams |
and james Shaddens The latter two are |
colored, and Williams is only 16 years old;
Voelker is a son of Peter Voel1er, Sr., who |
was murdered by Emil Minuth, at No. 9 |
Soho street, in March, 1888. The Eleventh
ward patrol wagon conveyed all the pris-
oners to the Central station. McGillicutt,
Voelker and McKibbon were bailed out by
friends during the afternoon.
The police officers proceeded to the Gen.
tral station, where they prepared for a raid
near home. Mrs. Maria Becker has been,
for about four months, keeping what she
called boarding house at No. 419 Smith
field street, not over 150 feet from the Gen.
trail station. She formerly sold liquor lille
gally at No. q Diamond. About year
ago she was called up by Inspector Nc
Aleese and warned to quit selling. After
display of great Indignation that she should
be accused of such an offense, she was finally
convinced that the Inspector had proof
against her, and she promised to stop the
business. For some time she did refrain
from illegal selling. Since she moved to
the house on Smithfeld street she has been
at her old tricks.
KEG OF PORT AND A JUG.
The house was entered, shortly after noon,
by Constable Charles Porter, followed BY
Lieutenant George Boyd, Inspector Nc
Aleese, Captain Silvis, Detectives Coul-
son and Fitzgerald. They ran up the stairs
to the middle room on the second floor.
There they found Mrs. Becker and five
men. On a table rested keg of port
wine and jug containing two gallons of
Guckenheimer's whisky. Piled up at the |
side of the room were six cases of beer from |
Barney McGlnnlss' agency near the Point. |
In the kitchen were ten more cases. some
containing empty and some full bottles.
The house was we'll furnished with glasses
and soft drinks. The five men gave their
names as II. w. Poldick, roomer at the
house; John Smith, Sam Smith, John Jones
and Sam Jones. They are workmen on
Barnes new buildings on Dinwiddie street.
Mrs. Becker and the men were locked ND.
The front room on the second floor was oc-
cupled oy tat Lady who is now on exhibi-
ton at one OF the museums. Inspector Nc
Aleese ana Captain Silvis took her by the
arms and attempted to lit her from the sofa
where she languished, but she refused to
move. The Inspectors sweetest persuaslons
would not induce her to arise and walk,
She was com portable where she was The
officers consulted and agreed that she ought
to be left just where she was, and she was
left. A daughter of Mrs, Becker. named .
Cora, years old, a young woman who gave
her name as Maggie Wiley and said she 9
was working in the house, and Maggie
O'Donnell, washerwoman, who had been
trying to calm her nerves with the Quicken
heImer, were LETT in the house.
About 8 o'clock in the afternoon Lieuten-
ant Boyd and Officers Mulvehill and q
Cramer pulled the house of Mrs John Nc t
5inley, at No. 251S Mulberry alley. Two s
women, two bows and three men were ar v
-ested, and the police confscated an eighth q
If beer and two bottles of whisky.