Middletown transcript., 1908-09-12
MILFORD'S HOUSE CLEANING
Disguised Detectives Round Up Twenty.
three for Selling Liquor

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Thirteen prisoners were taken to Dovel
on Friday afternoon of last week anG
eight others were taken to Georgetown
Jail as the net results of a most remark
able roundup of law-breakers at Milford
| Milford being situated in both counties
the offenses were committed both in KEN
and Sussex.
The" walking speakeasies" we're rounded
up between midnight and MONDAY, after
a gumshoe campaign conducted by Della.
ware and Philadelphia detectives under
the direction of the law and order socie.
ties, and with the cooperation of the
State.
The suspected persons have been
warned, but have laughed at the law.
The twenty-three were all arrested and
placed for few hours, pending hearing
arrangements, in the new steel prison by
the river which divides Milford in half
and throws the south side in Sussex
County and the north side in Kent.
The detectives who finally rounded up
the accused, worked there for some time,
disguised as tramps or working as fruit
buyers or mechanics or farm hands. One
detective, it is said, had to do a little of
each.
The defendants we're brought from their
quarters" and preliminary trials were
begun at one o'clock before Magistrate
William A. Truitt, in Kent, and Magis.
trate G. G. Fisher, in Sussex.
John Russ, the first defendant, was
discharged, there being doubt as to actual
sales of Intoxicating liquor in his case.
Sherry Masten was held for the Grand
Jury in $500 bail on each of two counts.
William Lowry was required to furnish
$500 bail. Edward Lowry was held to
$500 bail. Walter Macklin, next up, was
turned over to the constables in default
of $500 bail.
By this time three lawyers were work.
ing hard with the cases of the remaining
defendants to save the requirement of the
heavy bail bond. James Williams, Ed
ward Morris, John Bennett, William
Lowrey and U. G. Jones, all white, were
each held in $500 bail for the Grand Jury.
Daniel Ennis, colored, was held in $500
bail because of several charges against
him. William Tingle, Frank Purnell,
Richard Matthews, Charley Robinson,
Courtland Gibson, Albert Dirweihen,
Louis Purnell and George Lewis, all col
ored, waived hearings and were each
held in $500 bail.
Upshire Johnson's case was tried by
Magistrate Charles G. Fisher, of the Sus-
sex side. Three women were also ar.
raigned, the detectives and citizens hav-
ing rounded them up in the four o clock
morning raid, on previously collected
evidence. They were Sallie Van, Sarah
Sordeu and Hetty Van. Each was held
to $500 bail for court. The rule was to
hold in $500 bail in Kent and $500 in
Sussex, that being the established sum.
As two counties were involved, the
State was represented by two deputy at
torneys-general-James NJ. Satterfield in
Magistrate TRUTHS court on the Kent
side, and Suder Richards in Magistrate
Fishers court ON the Sussex side.
- More than dozen guilty ones, against
whom evidence had been collected, es-
capped when the raids began. The author
tiles are expecting to make at least
score more arrests before the grand jury
convenes. Detective Gillis, who led the
''round up' never had to kick in so many
front doors before in his career.