The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-22
D0CKERY
BORED THE
BARRELS
Descent of the Food In
spector Upon the Bogus
Brandy.
DETERMINED THAT 1T
SHALL NOT LEAVE.
Three Packages Relieved OF
Their Contents in Short
Order.
COLLECTOR WISE'S PROTEST
NOT Needed.
An Armistice Declared Until Half
Past Ten This Morning-Manu-
facturers Talk.
COLLECTOR WISE'S PROTEST
NOT Needed.
An Armistice Dec AIRED Until Hall
Past Ten This Morning-Manu-
facturers Talk.

The manifest for the 105 barrels OF adul-
terated California brandy, about which so
much stir is being made, was filed with
the Naval Officer yesterday morning.
Naval Officer Irish wired the facts OF the
case to the Secretary OF the Treasury and
suggested that the brandy should be
stopped when it reached New York by
rail.
After the manifest had been filed the
105 barrels were taken out of the bonded
warehouse and placed on Southern Pa
ciic freightcars at Fifth and Townsend
streets.
At o'clock Food Inspector Dockery
made lis appearance with two assistants
and bored holes in three of the barrels for
the purpose of allowing the contents to
escape, their intention being to spill all
the liquor in the 105 packages.
While they were thus engaged G. +.
Gerald, foreman of the freight sheds, and
w. H. Hardy, his assistant called in Po-
liceme1 Il. L. Ryan and John Moriarty
and demanded that they should place
Dockery under arrest. The officers re-
fused o do so, as they realized that Doc k
cry was public official, acting under
color of law, and that they had no au-
thority to interfere.
Then Gerald and Hardy seized Dockery
and attempted to remove him forcibly
from the car, whereupon Dockery asserted
his authority, placed the two men under
arrest and marched them to the Southern
station.
After consultation with Captain Spill
lane Dockery agreed not to enter any
charge against Gerald and Hardy and all
returned 10 the freightyards. While they
had been gone other employees of the rail
i
tanning the brandy, so that Dockery could
not find them for little time.
Collector of the Port Wise, United
States Marshal Barry Baldwin. United
States Attorney Foote and Mr.. Sproul of
the Southern Pacific Compan appeared
on the scene while the rail- Dad seals were
being placed on the cars. Wise wanted
to know who this man was" that had at
tempted to interfere with the transit of
goods in charge of the Government
Dockery announced that he WAS the
man who had been inquired for and Wise
informed him that the goods were under
the seal of the United States. This state
ment was denied by the Food Inspector.
He said that the seals on the cars were
of the Southern Pacific Com pany and that
the barrels were not stamped. Attorney
Foote warned Dockery that he was inter-
fering with the authority Of the United
States Government and that he might get
into trouble.
Collector Wise announced that he would
telephone to the Appraisers building for a
lot of Deputy United States Marshais to
arrest Dockery and his assistants, but
after a consultation with Mr.. Sproul it
was agreed that an armistice should be
declared until haIf-past 10 o'clock this
morning, until which hour the railroad
officials agreed not to move the alleged
brandy.
Mr.. Dockery said last night that while
he was boring hole In the third barrel,
a man came In with some Governmen emit
stamps, and proposed to place them on
the barrels, but Dockery would not allow
him to do so.