The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-20
OSCAR [. STADT IS
 PLACED IN JAIL 0N
 VAGRANCY CHARGE
Other Charges Also Filed as Result of Assault on Excise Officer Yes
 terday Morning

Detectives R. q. Williams. Crnmp and Jones arrested Oscar F. Stadt yesterday afternoon about o'clock at his home, 20l7 Firth avenue, north, on charge of vagraney and placed him in the city jail to be held until this morning, when warrant win be sworn out
 Stadt was also arrested yesterday morn ing by Officers Moser and Garner on charges of assault and battery. illegal sale of liquor and running disorderly house and placed in the city jail but he made bond in the sum of s300 and was released about noon. His arrest by detectives on the vagrancy charge followed. On the first arrest it Is alleged by Of- ficers Moser and Garner that o. E. Stadt 2 ssaulted J. T. Dowden, a special agent of the excise commission, while two other men held Dowdens arms. B. J. Coomer and Ali sherman were also arrested on assault and battery charges in connec- ton with the case. 1t Is further stated that the assault took place about o'clock yesterday morning at Stadts house. 20l7 Fifth avenue, and that there were about s5 persons fin the house at the time. powden went to stadrs yesterday morn- . It Is claimed that stadt has been arrested many times during the past year on simi- | lar charges. and has numerous appeals on file from fines and sentences in the re- corders court.
 "Stadts place has continuously given us great deal of trouble" said Chief of Police Martin Eagan yesterday. He de- 1 fies the police and has frequently made attacks on officers sent to his place.
 since the first of the year-since |
 have taken charge of the police depart ment--f have instructed the plain clothes
 officers 10 pay especial attention to the i operations of Stadt. They have paid at | tention to him; in fact. they have arrested
 him nearly every Sunday for the past four
 months. However. stadt always makes ! bond very easily.
 Tn recorders court stadt Is always
 found guilty and sentenced to a fine and 1 imprisonment He then appeals. As to the number of appeals that he has on nle
 for the higher courts l cannot tell off,
 hand. but it numbers over 100. and it is
 quite possibly double that number. As
 to why the higher courts do not do any thing. I cannot tell, but the fact remains l that we convict him every time he is up
 in recorders court, and he then appeals | and nothing else is ever heard of the case
 From the detective department which has co-operated with the police depart ment in the past four months in efforts to I suppress Stadt. it Is stated that the Stadts
 have a United States revenue license No 36,S97. dating from July l3, 1918. to June s0 | 1914, giving federal permission to sell iiouor at a017 Fifth avenue. This, the de- l tectives contend. is prima facie evidence that tho law Is being violated at the resi- dence of the Stadts, which is at o0l7 Fifth l avenue.
 | Lieut.. T. E. Streit of the detective de- pertinent last night also spoke of tho trouble this department had had with Stadt. We have arrested him many times and convicted him in recorders court. The cases are then appealed. and that ia the last we hear of them.''