Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-21

these cases next Monday--as to wheth.
er a man can bring into the State
liquor for his personal use in his own
car or eonveyance-and that this de-
cision will have an important bearing
Ion the local apprehensions.
All OF the parties held up on the
Nllliamsport pike last night were re-
leased on their own recognizance.
However, the booze was retained by
the officers and is now stored in the
Federal building under lock and key.
There are about rs cases of whiskey
and eight or ten cases OF beer and
wine
Colonel Walker stated to Journal
man that his participation in last
nights affair was in an effort to Sc
cure cumulative evidence against Ger.
tain well known bootleggers. In this
he was successful $50 far as num-
Der were concerned. Stanley Kidwell,
the North Queen street barber, once
before up in the Federal court and
lightly sentenced when he professed
repentance and desire to lead bet
ter life, was arrested by the officers,
but not until he drew a gun and was
summarily disarmed by them. He was
taken before u. S. Commissioner
Downs and released for preliminary
hearing on December 81 at 10 o'clock
in the morning, giving bond in the
sum Of $500, with Attorney II. II. En-
inert ais his surety Robert l.. Brant-
ner, junk dealer of North Queen
street, was also held fora hearing be-
fore Mr.. Downs on the morning of
December 2S, giving bond for $500,
with his wife as surety. Oscar See,
the merchant at corner of Queen and
Race streets, was held for similar
hearing on the morning of December
rs. He gave bond for $500, with
George r. Sperow as surety.
A county trio, William Jacques,
Lewis Robinson and Dominec Cinema,
of Berkeley Station, was also held
each in the sum of $500 bond to ap-
pear before Commissioner Downs on
the morning of December 30. There
were other county men under suspic-
ionH, but it is not thought that the
evidence is sufficient in the case of a
prominent man the occupants of whose
car carried some liquor to cause him
any trouble. 1t is further stated
that eighteen or twenty warrants are
in the hands of Marshal C. E. Smith,
some OF which have been executed,
but not returned to Commissioner
Downs. A puzzling proposition came
up when two Virginians were appre-
hended in the grand raid. The ques-
ton Is can they be held while pass
ing through the State with booze, al
slough they are bound for another
dry State.
1t is understood that the district
attorneys office has some strong evil
dence against the men involved and
there is a report that at one OF the
places, in an upper room. it had fire.
quently happened that from three to
five young gils were used ais "bar-
maids" and sometimes found to be in
an intoxicated condition. There are
understood to be number OF other
professional bootleggers on the wait
ing list. who are to be pulled sooner
or later. District Attorney Walker
emphatically declared this morning
that he intended there should be nc
bootleggers in Martinsburg or in the
Northern District Of West Virginia
He has started to clean out the gangs
of illicit operators and will not allow
fear or favor to persuade him from
his course. The Federal court will
be asked to impose sentences that
will make bootlegging decidedly un
POTABLE and unpopular.
Some little conflict seems likely
between the local authorities and the
Federal officials. Prosecuting Attor
ney A. B. Noll states that the raid
was carried out on the initiative Of