The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-20
TRICKS OF uQU0R|TES
PROVING INEFFECTIVE
Efforts To Violate North Carolina
Liquor Law Lands Rum Inn
porters In jail.
WATER BOTTLES CONTAIN RUM
Man Higher Up Gets Six-Month
Term and Raleigh Judge Warns
Offenders That Anti-Shipment Law
win BE Rigidly Enforced.
Especial to The Richmond virslnian.)

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
Raleigh. n. c.. May 19.-The efforts
LIQUOR dealers and local blind tigers
to get shipments OF liquor into North
Carolina, in. excess of the limitations
of the new law. are meeting with lit
tie success on the part of, the former
and with disastrous results for some
of the latter
Nearly two months have elapsed
since the amended state prohibition
law took effect, limiting the amount
lof wniskey and other spiritnous
LIQUORS TO one quart each fifteen days
to one person. Many OF those ac-
customed TO using mo took ad-
vantage of the period elapsing be-
tween the passage % the amendment
and the date of its becoming effective
and laid in a stock Of liquors for fu-
ture use.
Much of this, IL appears. has BEEN
consumed and In some cases ex-
haHEte0. ana ESCGHNlN AIlGkS aAAS RSSA'
a renewal of the effort to evade the
law by smuggling liquor in through
various tricks and devices.
Twelve Rubber Water Bags Full
fayorite method employed Is to
bring in a few quarts slowed away
among clothing in trunks checked by
passengers coming in from Richmond.
Norfolk and elsewhere When the In
dividuai checking the trunk does not
bring il for his own Use. he brings the
LIQUOR to "accomrn odate friend.
This practice is becoming so prevalent
that police officers are now keeping
suspicious eye on much of the bag
gage" unioaded from the baggage
coaches hee. Many seizures are being
made. and II is getting TO he risky to
stow whiskev in trunks already, for
the police court here is lined up
sQuarely for the strict enforcement OF
the new Grier law.
The suitcase method of bringing in
booze. largely practiced for some time
by blind tigers" is wearing itself out
as too transparent a fraud to longer
deceive. An aggravated case of this
character is now in the courts here
pending an appeal from the city
judges court.
This court first sentenced the sup
posed tiger" TO twelve months, and
later sentenced his alleged employer
IA negro druggist here) to six months
for the same offense, the runner"
having ridden from Richmond to
Raleigh on a mileage book issued in
named Shade,
This liquor shipment" was Drought
in under a new cever and would prob
ably not have been detected had not
one of the vessels" spilled part of its
contents, which oozed with accentu-
ated odor from the negro runners
suitcase.
Growing Enforcement of Prohibition
- Law.
The suspicious porcennan az the
uniou station who searched the suit
case found twelve rubber water-bot-
ties filled with whiskey, all except the
one which had spilled a portion of its
contents
The city Judge. In sentencing ,he
druggist. whom he regarded as the
man "higher-up" and the really re-
sponsible violator of the Law. made II
clear that the municipal court would
uphold the practice of policemen
tunder the terms OF the search and
seizure law of examining suspected
baggage and the prospects of SNUG
Cling in liquor in this manner from
now on has received pronounced
setback
In most of the cities and towns OF
this State. IL is learned, the new law
is being enforced with gratifying re-
suits Virginian who are awaiting the
time for their prohibition law to be-
come effective may well take heart
over the growing success of the law in
North Carolina