Evening star., 1918-07-30
M0REBOOTLEGGERS|
GET JAIL Terms
One Woman Given Two Years
and Another Gets 18
Months.

Rapid dispc sition of bootleGging cases
is being made by the Police Court
Five more Illicit liquor peddIers were
convicted today and sentenced to Jail
terms ranging from six months to the
maximum penalty of two years.
Eliza Wright, colored. charged with
selling liquor to soldiers and violatin4
the Sheppard law, was convicted in
Judge McMahon's court and sentenced
to two years Imprisonment on the
former charge. She now faces like
sentence in Judge Hardison's court
for violating the prohibition law.
Eliza was arrested May by Police
man E. T. Harvey of the fourth pre-
cinct.
The maximum penalty of two years'
Imprisonment was also imposed on Ben
5amin Gaskins, colored, by Judge Hardi-
son. Philip Rideout and Henry Thomas.
both colored. were given Jail sentences
of one year. All three OF the convicted
bootleggers were arrested Saturday
night by Sergt +. S. w. Burke Of the
seventh precinct.
Another Woman Sentenced.
Charged with operating a speak
easy" at her home. 404 K street north
west, Sarah Asher. colored. was arrest
ed last night by the liquor squad of the
second precinct led by Sergt Ira Sheetx
and Lieut.. ]. L. Pierson. When arr
raigned before Judge Hardison this
morning she entered a plea Of guilty
and was sentenced to a near ma1imurJ
penalty Of eighteen months tmprisonf
ment.
The police testified that when they
raided the house they found a large
quantity and assortment of liquor and
hundreds Of empty bottles Serg1
Sheetz stated she was running y
genuine old-time 'speak-easy.
Upon recommendation of Ringgold
Hart. assistant District corporation
counsel, Samuel Butcher, colored, con-
victed Of bootlegging, was sentenced
to five months incarceration Butch
er was arrested by Sergt: J. l. Kill
martin of the fourth precinct.
Charles Tyler. colored, of Alexan~
dria. Va, was sentenced to six months
in Jail this morning by Judge Hardi-
son when convicted of Illegally SELL
| ing liquor. Tyler was arrested Satur-
day might by Sergt. T. r. Bean Of the
first precinct when he sold half
pint of whisky to a colored woman
| who was acting as a police agent The
court imposed the light sentence on
| the ground that Tyler was not a pro-
| fessional boo.legger. He testified that
| he came to Washington for good
| time" and met the colored woman, who
| feigned sickness and asked him for
some whisky. Feeling sorry for her.
1 he said, Il sold her some that l had
| for my personal use"
| A statement made by Benjamin Gas
kins while testifying in court led to
the arrest last night of Eliza Burns.
colored, 1915 Wisconsin avenue. She
was arrested by Sergt- Burke and
charged with selling liquor. Gaskias
was employed by Eliza, it was said.
as runner, and he told the court
that the colored woman had base
! of supplies in her house" She was
arraigned in court this morning and
pleaded not guilty and demanded a
| jury trial.
Policeman Little of the ninth pre-
cinct yesterday arrested James P.
| Stewart and charged him with unlaw-
fully bringing liquor into the District
after o'clock in the evening. Stew
art pleaded not guilty when arraigned
before Judge Hardison. and demanded
jury trial.
Munition Worker Arrested.
BENJAMIN Powell. colored, sii Sd
street, was much surprised last night
when he learned the grand jury had
| indicted him for an alleged violation
! of the internal revenue laws in con-
nection with charges of bootlegging
and selling to soldiers, preferred
against him several days ago Police
| of the fourth precinct last night ar
rested him on the grand jury charge
at his home, 914 Sd street southwest.
and this morning he was taken to po-
| lice headquarters and photographed.
Il suppose this is the first time you
have had your picture taken in num-
Der Of years." queried policeman.
II had it taken when / went to work
at the steel plant" Powell replied, ex-
hibiting his pass to the munitions
plant and calling attention to his like
ness that formed part of it.
Incidentally. the prisoner ex-
planned, he met with an accident
while working in the munitions plant
and had been laid off several days.
He said he feared he would be un-
able to raise money enough to fur
nish the additional bond that would
be required of him.
When 1 was in Police Court" he
said. Il had to pay 500 for n bond.
and / have very little cash left"
Powell said his lawyer had demS Il
ed jury trials in the Police Cour(
cases After being photographed I'D
was turned over to the marshal y