The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
A NOSELESS TALE
Why Couldn't They Scent
That Tiger?
Did Preparations for Yerkes Hypnolize
Their SmeIlers? A Sunday Phantas-
magOria Of Jugs, Bottles and
Men jugged.
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Greensboro, n. c., March 27.-Peo-
pie passing the city hall going to
church yesterday morning were sur
prised in seeing several members of
the city police force rolling kegs from
a wagon backed up against the curD-
ing fronting the office of the chief of
police. And what was worse, there
were numbers of bottles and seven
teen two gallon jugs toted out ana
carried into the city vault, which
looks like a government warehouse
now for the storage of confiscated
blockade.
Investigation ana enquiry disclose
the particulars of a blind tiger 1ai1,
a few moments before. In addition to
kegs, bottles and jugs in the vault,
two white men were jagged themselves
behind the grated iron bars Of the city
calaboose.
The blind tiger was raided at ten
O'Clock by a good force of police. us
habitation was on East Market street
i'm sight Of the city hall. and not lfty
feet from the city postoffice and the
revenue officers headquarters. 1t was
ostensibly a restaurant, of the common
sort and had been doing such 4 rush
ing business recently that suspicion
was attracted TO it by the officers.
Last night Policeman Donnell in
citizens clothes, pushed through the
crowd which thronged the place, and
called for a drink of Whiskey. He got
it without difficulty. Afterwards sew
eral other men, We're sent in and
bought the stuff. For some reason, tGe
place was not pulled until the follow
ing morning, with the result specified
Some of the kegs had grape phos-
phate" and some "cider" branded on
the heads, but the empty ones smelled
corn likker' and the full ones tasted
that way In bottles on.ice marked
white rock" there was beer, many
other bottles We're full, half full or
empty of Whiskey while half the jugs
were full of corn liquor being white
one and two gallon jugs, with nice
bucket handles to them, and with the
letters John l.. Casper Distillir Com
pany of Winston stamped prob. .nent-
ly upon them.
A Burglars Kit.
In addition TO this lay out, the po-
lice seized a kit of tools in the joint.
These tools consist of everything sup
posd to be esed by burglars anu seem
TO be q complete outfit, even cold
steel auger for boring safes being
included with finest saws. chisels OF
peculiar shape, files, jimmys, etc.
The men arrested and row locked
up awaiting trial go by tie name Of
Simpson. and came here from no.
body knows where, soon after prohi5i-
tion set in in January. They are Tot
native Americans evidently, nor are
they Jews, their nationality being a
question still.
Important developments may result
from this arrest. outside of the liquor
part of the situation.
There has been considerable chat
fng'' of a good natured kind of the
revenue officers here who were in total
ignorance of the Illicit sale of probably
blockade liquor for more than month
right under their noses. One reason
given for their blindness as to the cy
ietence of q blind tiger in q stones
throw of the revenue headquarters, is
that the force has been so closely en-
gagged for the past month getting
ready to make the Tar Heel Club
banquet a thing of beauty and q icy
forever to United States Internal Rev
enue Commissioners Yerkes their head
and chief, they We're evcnsable for
falling to find out that liquor. was be-
ing retailed without a government Ii
cense, or that probably improperly
stamped packages Of whiskey were
concealed so near. An officer of the
government was asked this morning
if there were any Irregularities found
in the stamping of the whiskey seized
by the police officers in the blind
tiger raid on the Simpsons. and he
said the packages had not been ex-
amined yet. These men had no GOV
eminent retail license, AM if it is
proven on them that they Were retail
ing with out it they are subject TO 'ine
and imprisonment by the Federal
court The license costs $500.
The Federal court grand jury meets