New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-23
RAID ON MoONsHINERS.
PLANT IN MOUNT VERNON WITH A CA
PACITY OF 300 GALLONS A DAY.
THREE ARRESTS MADE-DETECTED SUPPLY
ING EAST SIDE SALOONS BY A REV
ENUE AGENT-LEADER OF GANG
ESCAPES.

Seven detectives of the United states Secret Ser
vice last night made raid upon gang Of moon
sinners which for months has been running
plant with capacity of 800 gallons of liquor
day, in old house No. 422 South Seventh-ave..
Mount Vernon Two of the alleged moonshiners
were captured by the detectives who broke open
the doors with and covered the men with
volvers while they trying to escape. Another
man, who leaped through a second story win
dow was caught late last night.
The proprietor of the place. it is believed. has
escaped. He came along just the raid being
made and who lives in the house gave
him signal with her handkerchief before the de-
teCtives could stop her. He a well dressed man,
about thirty-hve years old. whose fingers were
cred with diamond rings and who all Of the neigh
bors thought a wealthy New-York merchant.
The stills, which at work when the raid
was made. forty barrels of malt and dozen barrels
of liquor put in charge of Deputy Collector
of Revenue John P. Donahoe, of Yonkers
MADE LIQUOR IN AN OLD HOUSE.
The house in which the moonshiners conducted
their operations is old house, far back from the
street and cut off by trees All of the people who
live In the neghborhOod supposed that 1t being
run country boarding house. On the premises
Is a stable in which the moonshiners kept several
horses and wagons with which they transported
their product to New-York where they marketed
1t among the East Side saloonkeepers for 50 a gall
Ion The moonshine was put up in five gallon copper
receptacles. which packed in wooden boxes
suspicion.
noticed that the wagons left the house before day
light and generally returned late at night this
did not arouse their suspicious
Revenue Agent Frank G. thompson. of the Fifth
District this city. learned of the existence Of the
gang Tuesday. He followed the wagons on his
bicycle and saw the boxes containing the moon
shine being unloaded at several saloons. He rode
beside them to Mount Vernon the same night
his bicycle. which without a light. Several
policemen in the Borough of The Bronx stopped the
detective Werp abO,lt bt1t he
vented them from doing so by showing his badge
Thompson watched the moonshiners put their
wagons and horses in the barn.
BATTERED DOWN THE FRONT DOOR.
Yesterday afternoon, about o'clock. he returned
to Mount Vernon accompanied by posse Of six
deputies, and surrounded the house When the
signal was given Thompson battered down the
front door. which was locked with an axe. The
three moonshireTs who inside the house were
taken by surprise. They made a rush get out
of the windows but covered with revolvers.
Only escaped, and he leaped from the second
story window and down the street Some of
the neighbors tried 10 stop him. but he threw them
off by telling them the place was on fire and that
ne running to send in alarm. The detec-
tives also captured woman. who gave her name
s Sophia Hyman. She was living in the basement
with six-year-old girl. She says that she rented
the basement Only few weeks ago and did not
know what going in the two upper floors.
The detectives say she gave the signal to the leader
he approached the house.
The men who were captured were brought before
United States Commissioner Shields in this city and
afterward locked up in the Ludlow Street jail
They gave their as Moses HymaD and Louis
Rosenstein but the detectives believe that these
fictitious. The third man, LEGGED 10 be
a moonshiner, was captured at o'clock last night
He was hiding in the barn the premises when
the officers heard noise, and in going to inVesti-
gate found him making off with a cask in q bag.
They covered him with their weapons and he sur
rendered His face badly cut from his leap
through the window He is now locked IN in the
Mount Vernon police station. He says his name
is Joseph Godstein, and refuses TO talk of his ar
rest The house is owned by Bernard BabroWSky,
a Mount Vernon merchant
SAID HE WAS A CLOTHING MERCHANT.
Mr. RabrowsBy said last night that he rented the
building about three months to man who
gave the name of David Fisherberg, of No 227
Monroe-st this city. Fisherberg he says, told him
that he was a clothing merchant. and desired 10
live there during the summer months The de-
scrpton of his tenant given by Mr.. Babrowsky
tallies with that the leader of the mOonshiners
He is a stockily built man, with a heavy beard
lie always carried . gold headed cane. The de
tectives believe that he lives at some hotel In
this city. -
at least two months, and that the moonshiners
had regular routes in this city which they sup
piled. Several hundred barrels of "moonshine,
they believe, have been disposed of. The liquor
was made from sugar, molasses and yeast, large
quantities of which were stored in the building