The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-03
IS OPERATORS OF
LOCKER CLUBS ARE
PLACED IN JAIL
Mayor 0'Brien's Work Shown
In the Wholesale Arrests
Made Yesterday
AGENCY DETECTIVES ARE
AT WORK ON THE CASES
Others Are Expected To Be BROUGHT
In Today and Gilt Edge
Bonds Are Expected
In Each Case.

The first showing of Mayor o. Brien,s
hano TO any extent in the prosecution of
Vioiators OF the prohibition law was made
Yesterday afternoon when IS operators of
locker clubs and soft drink stands were
placed under arrest. Practically all of
the men arrested are locker club men and
IL Is said there are as many as rs DIFF
ferent charges against some of them.
Those arrested were Joe O'Kellie, B. o.
Brooks s. A. Fuller, e. S. Moore, w. R..
Campbell, G. N. Lokey, w. P. Luthes,
w. OBrien, Earl Mitchell, B. C. Davis.
w. e. Gilman, Jake schatlein, L. M.
Hatley, e. Mathews, Tom Cason, Andrew
Tedeski, @. D. Odum and w. L. James.
Evidence against the men, it is said. was
worked up by @. H. Carroll and ]. r.
Waggoner, agency detectives, who have
been working In the city for the past
six weeks under personal instructions
of Mayor O'Brien, and who were in the
shooting affair Sunday afternoon in which
City Detective Burge was wounded.
Over 300 cases have been worked UP
by these two men and further arrests
are expected to follow, though great
many of these cases are repeaters
None of the arrests yesterday was made
by either of these special detectives. IN
stead they were made by regular patrol
men. Sunday night an order was issued
by Chief Bodeker, under instructions
from Mayor O'Brien, to have every Off
Ger working the morning and day shifts
report to the roll call room by 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The order did not
state for what the men were wanted
The reason was explained to them at
the time of the meeting and after they
were paired off each couple was instruct
ed to go to a certain club or soft drink
stand and arrest the man whose name
was given them. Instructions were that
they were to bring every man to the city
Jail and lock him up while bond was
being made.
Bonds In each case was fixed at $780,
while the orders were very particular
relative to who was to be taken on the
bond, extra gilt-edged bondsmen being
required. Shortly after O'Clock the first
couple of officers arrived with a man and
every few moments for the next hour
similar trios would make their appear
ance in the Jail alley. News of the ar
rests spread rapidly and within few
minutes the alley was thronged with a
crowd of curious persons or those de-
string to make bond for friends inside
Every map was locked up as he was
brought in. those desiring to telephone
friends being allowed the use of the tele-
phone for few moments before being
placed in their cells. They remained in
Jail anywhere from one to four hours,
while three men had not yet made bond
at late hour last night.
These arrests are those growing out of
the $500 fund appropriated to Mayor
O'Brien's use by the City Council. Car
roll and Waggoner have been working
on them since about June %, having been
brought to Birmingham at that time by
the citys chief executive. The quietness
with which the men were put to work
was shown by the fact that the man
closer to the mayor than any other man
in the CITY, H. Scudder Ryall, his pri-
vate secretary, never saw Carroll until
Sunday
1t was with smiles that the arrested
men marched into the city bastie, while
the greetings to them by the crowd gath
cred at the outside of the jail were of a
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