The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-10

finished The woman had taken adj
vantage of the waste room, and by cut
ting a trap door in the roof designed so
that it would not show, she succeeded
in finding a clever place to keep all the
liquor she could dispose of. When
business. was good she would keep a
youngster uD in the roof, and as fast
as she wanted beer or liquor she would
tap three times on the wall, and he
would open the trap and hand down
| the stuff wanted. The youngster af-
forwards said he supposed it was the
owner of the house coming instead of
the policemen when he opened the door,
I and finally the dive was broken up.
The days of the soda fountain as a
cOncealer Of liquor has practically gone
| by, although it is utilized some at the
| present time. One raiding squad from
| station l once found stovepipe at
/ tached to a stove filled full of bottles
containing beer and whisky, and at
another time a trap door arrangement
| behind a water faucet was used to con-
| ceal 10 cases of beer. A case where
whisky has been drawn from a gas jet
! has come to the notice of the police,
and another case where a woman had
| the front of her dress filled with pock-
/ cts, in which she carried whisky, was
! discovered at the Waldo street station
lone night
! Beer has been unearthed in cellars, in
lash piles, behind houses, underneath
4 tons of coal and hidden in garbage bar
rels at different times and thorough
/ search into a barrel of -four in house
/ in Worcester once brought forth three
/ quarts of whisky. The window cas-
finps In one house in this city were used
All one time to hold liquor and beer,
| and once 10 barrels of beer We're
/ dragged out from underneath a ton OF
| hav Woodpiles are also looked on sus-
! niciously by the police, as more than
| once they have been utilized as mar
| bors for LIQUOR, and pile of old rags
| Il eure To be searched and picked over
thoroughly when any old-time police
4 men Are making a raid. To begin 10
/ taIl nlaces where liquor is hidden by
some Worcester people would pc neNt
/ TO impossible for it is hidden IN liios'
( inconcefvable places. . y,-or
I During one no-license year III W. ~
/ ceeter after a raid made in sectloh
] of the city not very far from the en
( tral notice station, an lncluent H1'p
neneG which caused some olliceIS ~ 't ~
| Force to look cross-eyed, ana otlSls ~ -
look innocent, and even 10 tlis ~,
! is told occasionally at STATION 4,,otb Ia
| a crowd of old-timers gel loseenel
! One night the o'clock rellei was ,' AZ .
~, ;nto station /, all walking win
stride of 100 steps to the minute i n19ios
| arect chests thrown out anu In e
ei,.i,,oing when suddenly the SOUND OF
! I,aoiSing glass disturbed the No. !,
! tread of feet, and caused cohsliel 'D -
conjecture among the oflceas as ~ ~
tgbet had happened. inc oiilcel -
wavs march straight INTO the 49,
down fhe full length OF the guaru rouli,,
end tnrn to the right at the emu anu
conntermarch back to positi,o,n h a.
tha entrance again. SO as 10 aII an ~
e,,tlrc line to be inside the guara looi,i
1ha march and countermarcn wd Il
,,,a5a az usual on this evening, anu o.,
1--we from the door, down the sualo y
" ,'oo,,s and back, in half circle was :
49, Wet streak, and 1t could pc tId t-o
Nc ~ q point where the pfeahli5 si ,a,so
,,,as Heard. AS the officers STOOD III nv ~.
th W. dnid kept dripping out OF one o. ~ !,
oTicar's rockets TO the noor, anu 80 :,
otj,,ued TO do so until the me We
S1,s,,issed and the officer whose e sIu,,
una running water maze ms ulsaP
W., After an investisatlon5 :, >
pea . ,dliscovered that the oilcer nag
wes ana substantial bottle OF stroils
lals4od amid in his pocket, Whieh ny
scen,Sed 10 use to break up coIu, anu
llt S,,tIer officer, anxious 10 get ~ a.
,,'' s,vinrs with his club as anyone
i ne, I, line, accidentally strucB tue ~
t tis and broke it with disastrous ~
! Guilt