Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-22
CITY POLICE STATION
STOCKED WITH BOOZE
l6S Gallons Seized at City Dock
Last Night
DESTINED FOR VIRGINIA
Crew Of Boat Here For Transport Ar
rested and Hearing is Under Way
in Baltimore.

The city police station on Glouces-
ter street is stocked today with
enough wet goods to supply scores
of the lovers Of old John Barleycorn''
for many weeks.
Ii all came about through the
vigilance of the United States officials
represented in this district by Deputy
United States Marshal A. j. Stinch-
comb, who, with the aid of Police Ser
geant Richard Holiday and Patrol
men William Uranium and Thomas
Jacobs, late yesterday afternoon.
seized the liquor which was being
stored on an auxiliary canoe, prepar-
atory. it is said, to being conveyed to
Norfolk. Va.
The three men who comprise the
crew of the vessel were promptly
placed under arrest and today they
were conveyed to Baltimore for a
hearing before the United States Dis
trict Court. Shipping liquor into dry
territory, and the State of Virginit is
bone dry" under an act of that State
Legislature is a serious offense, but
certain circumstances connected with
the case present a problem from
legal standpoint, as to where the liza
bility is to be placed. The men ar
rested all of whom were compelled to
spend the night in the police station,
gave their names as j. c. Richardson,
G. w. Richardson, and William A.
Ellie tho 1aftar a na0ro
The quantity of liquor, all bonded
goods, in quart bottles, and packed
in barrels of the sugar barrel size,
bears the label or address of IS. w.
Harrison, Annapolis. Md Each of
the barrels contains As quarts. There
were IA barrels in ALL thus making
total of 672 quarts, or 16S gallons of
the booze. 1t develops that the whole
consignment was shipped to Annapo-
lis by freight over the Maryland Elec-
trio Railways and that the boat had
put into port in the meantime, to re-,
ceive it, although it was at first re-
ported that the boat contained its
cargo Of wet goods when it arrived
here
There is no one about Annapolis by
the name of S. w. Harrison. the con-
signee, but it is reported that this
party is a resident of Norfolk, Va.
and that the booze was to be trans
ported here. The Federal authorities,
1t is said, have been conducting an ac-
tive crusade to uncover a scheme by
which much whiskey has been shipped
into Virginia territory and they had
information that the canoe had made
the trip from Baltimore for the pur-
pose.
What is puzzling the city authori-
ties now is whether or not some one
has been acting as an agency here in
Annapolis for the supposed Illicit
shipment of the wet goods, in view of
the fact that investigation fails to re-
veal anyone by the name of S. w.
Harrison. Also the fact that no effort
was made in the shipment of the bar
rels, to conceal what they contained,
each of them bearing a stamp and la
beled as to the number of gallons of
whisky they contained presents some
thing of a problem. Furthermore.
each of the bottles is labeled with the
name of the brand of liquor, and also
bear the information that the whisky
was bottled by the firm of a. and E.
Maloney. 80 South Calvert St. Balti-
more" In addition to the barrels of
goods confiscated, a search of the boat
revealed IL half-pint bottles filled
with another brand of liquor These
were also seized by Deputy Marshal
Stinchcomb and taken to the police
station and stored with the rest of the
goods.