The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-16
YESTERDAY'S LIQUOR RAIDS.
Two In Grand Avenue Precinct and On
 in Central Precinct


 in Central Precinct.
 The Grand avenue police, despite the fact that yesterday was wet day out of doors resolved that it should not be a wet day in the many dispensaries of liquid consolation in their precinct and early in the day began a rigid lookout for violators of the Sunday law. Early in the morning the first drop of the day was made upon the saloon of Joseph Mesca at 199 Wallace street. Mercas place has been close ly watched by the police every Sunday for several weeks, but he has man. aged each time to outwit them until yesterday, and has defied all their at- tempts to apprehend him. His custom has been to station on the corners and other parts of the street near by his place fifteen or twenty Italians who acted as spotters for the place. When any of these spotters saw persons ap- preaching whep1 they suspected of be- ing officers they quickly gave the alarm at the saloon and when the police ar- rived at the place everything would ap- pear innocent enough. Yesterday, however, the police got ahead of his game and getting inside the cordon of spotters they mingled with the crows coming from early morning mass and reached the saloon before their pres- ence was discovered. Mosca was found doing business in the yard back of the saloon. He was carrying out beer and whiskey bottles in baskets and serving a good sized thirsty crowd grouped in the yard when the police suddenly ap- peared on the scene. The crowd broke and scattered and 1t is thought that enough evidence was scured to convict Mosca. Policemen E. J. Reilly and Roach made the raid. Mosca will be arrested to-day.
 The next raid was made at 3:30 in the afternoon upon the saloon at 719 Grand avenue, kept by Patrick Heslin. Ser- geant Dohertys and Hayes and Police men Landrigan stood a couple of blocks distant from the place and had been closely watching it for short time when they saw three men enter side gate and go to the rear of the saloon. The officers followed the three men to the back of the place and there saw through the window the three drinking in a room back of the barroom. Hes- lin refused to open the door and while the officers were breaking in he opened a door and let the men out into a tene- ment adjoining the saloon. When the officers entered the place they found that the door through which the three men had made their exit was apparently barred with three heavy bars of iron, securely screwed to the wood castings at each side of the door. On investiga- ton, however, they found that this was sham, that the door was only were placed across to give 1t the re- semblance of being securely and per- manently fastened
 OLD GREEN HOTEL RAIDED. Captain Brewer is keeping a sharp lookout in the central precinct for Sun- day law violators and had details on yesterday on the lookout. One of the details composed of Sergeant Dunn and Policemen Eagan and Kane met with success In their surveillance of the Old Green hotel at 21 Orange street, kept by John MacGilvray. The place had been suspected for some time of doing Sunday business, and the officers had been on the watch but a short time yesterday morning when they saw twenty or thirty men go into and some out of the hotel at intervals. At g o'clock the police detail entered the place and found evidence that buisness had been done during the morning MacGilvray will be arrested probabilv to-day.
 HUGH CHRISTY AGAIN AT WORK. Hugh Christy, than whom perhaps no liquor seller in the city has given the police more bother, again came in for a share of the attentions of the Grand avenue police last night It is alleged by the police that Christy is a. persistent violator of the law and con- sequently his house at 20 Myrtle street is closely watched. At S:45 last night Sergeant Hayes and Policeman Ward visited the house and found two men drinking. One of the men was half drunk. The house was searched and liquor was found stored in a safe. This liquor was seized and Christy will he arrested to-dav