The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-20
BOOZE SELLERS
OFF TO PRISON
Knights of Liquor Wolators
and Narcotic Purveyors
to Atlanta.

Car No, l of a personally conducted
tour to the federal prison at Atlanta,
which tour is under the personal super
vision of Stanley H. TreZevRnt, United
States marshal, will leave Friday night,
p ointment among the min notables TO
BE- aboard are Richard. better known as
d ok Turner, whose zeal in the convey
ance and sale Of intoxicants on the
)rn Lake road, in the vicinity of
Ls,keview, made him so famous that
L lcle Sans ire was kindled, n one
James J. Mulcahy, whose resort on Polk
Nenue was long said to be a hotbed
Of booze and political Vaccinations,
Turner was convicted and sentenced
to serve a yea and a Gay, Dick is a
re formed man, his friends declare. He
has purchased the Gehring hotel, it Is
true. which is not exactly In the zone
of reform forces, but still a respectable
place even If bootleggers do now and
Il n congregate not far away.
Alas, poor Jim, friends who knew
M ulcahy well as a fellow of Infinite re-
source in lodging the law and ruling
politics in his ward, are at a loss to
understand why he so meekly lowered
his batteries Of defense and stopped
rying to prove that his Polk avenue
joint was a quiet abode of rectitude,
Prominent in the ranks of ancient
and amalgamated knights Of booze, is
a youth whose brilliant career was
nipped short by Judge Mccall when he
sentenced him to five years tuition in
tie industrial arts in the Georgia me-
tropolis. He is one Willie Ray, who,
with three others, held up and robbed
an Illinois Central freight train of 100
cases of whisky at Ensley Station,
Tenn, last July, Willie, his friends de
clare, was made the goat. one OF his
comrades, William Jennings, turning
states evidence. Judge Mccall, in sen
| tTnrinP Raw nDRllThH the ia Wight hold
uD as one Of the boldest violations of
the law which had ever come to his no
tice.
In the wake of these vigorous men
OF youth and prime of life viii trail the
pitiful figure of A. l.. Moses, convicted
and sentenced to a year and a day
on the charge Of moonshining.
Moses, despite his 40 years of good
behavior as a citizen, in his declining
years-he is over 60-allowed the lure
Of gold to overcome his caution ant
erected a miniature still in the Noncon.
nah bottoms. His plea of ignorance
that he did not know that he was vic,
lating the law, added to the charge that
he was drunk at the time, awaited moth.
ing and he was sent to Atlanta, where
the judge said excellent physician!
would assist nature in restoring him t.
a life Of health and sobriety.
Hardly less prominent than the above
is he quartet of %violators or the mar
cotic law. Jake Goldbaum convicted OF
a charge of selling narcotics without
government license, goes over the roat
for a year and a day. Three dusk,
damsels, users of the drug, as well a
alleged s%niffers and peddlers of Snow,
will accompany their distinguished
Compatriot of the Caucasian race
They are Nirgie Butts, Rosa Reese an,
Carrie Williams. g.
Walter W. Beck, convicted on
charge Of rifling the mails and alb
stracting therefrom two s%hotguns, goe
to prison to serve a two-year term. J
second indictment, accusing him of tn
theft of $4,000 in currency from tn
mails, resulted in a mistrial.