New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10
Dry Agents Get
Liquor to Save
II From Thieves
Newark Dealer Turns Over
95 Cases of Yarmouth,
10 u. s. Officials, Who
May Order His Arrest
O.. 900 Barrel Stolen
Truck Carrying Precious
Load Vanishes as Driver
Fights Prohibition Man

s. Joseph Polito drove up to the pro-
s,hiiion enforcement headquarters in
Newark yesterday with ninety We
eases of vermouth in truck and asked
the authorities to keep them for him.
polito is q wholesale liquor dealer,
with place OF business at 81 Norfolk
Street. He has a permit to deal in
Houors for medicinal purposes. On
Wednesday night some one entered his
store and stole los cases of liquor.
poliso set himself to nit upon a safer
plses in which to keep his supply of
yermouth. Unable to think of cache
which keen noses and predatory hands
eepld not reach, he decided to pack his
Yarmouth on to truck and take it to
n.ohibition headquarters until he could
think of q better place to keep it.
Agents took the stuff, but are not
sure yet that they should no. have ar
rested Polito for transporting alco-
bole beverages. Polite is an optimist.
he is sure he will have no trouble in
reganing his vermouth when he
wants it.
AT about the same time that Polite
vas driving through the streets of
Newark a truck driver, giving his name
AZ Morris Marren. of 213 Anneg Street,
Newark was starting out from in front
OF the Federal Distributing Company
with what is said to have been $4,000
worth of liquor in barrel.
Knocked Agent off Truck
william Fisher, a prohibition en-
forcement agent, did not think that
the driver had a permit to transport
the liquor, so he boarded the truck.
Marren had q permit, for Marren, he
charges, knocked him off the truck
with right to the jaw.
Immediately preceding the assault,
which, Fisher alleges, the agent had
opened the conversation by telling Mar
rem to drive to prohibition headquar-
ters. Tie driver demanded to be
shown Fishers credentials. Fisher
did not have them with him. :
Fisher says that after he was knocked
it. This attracted some attention, and
q nearby saloon and attacked him.
Hickman and Smith, and Marren was
taken to United States Commissioner
Matthews. The commissioner held him
in $1,000 bail, charged with interfering
with Federal officer.
In all the excitement some one stole
the truck. The police and Federal au-
sheiities are now trying to find out what
became of it and whether there was
any~iiquor on board. The Federal Dis
tributjng Company says that appar-
emily no liquor was withdrawn from
the warehouse. They say their stock
Of swenty-six barrels is intact.
Two Men Arraigned
Daniel Murphy, 22l West Twenty
first Street, and Joseph Levine, 1884
Belmont Avenue. the Bronx, were ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Samuel Hitchcock yesterday and
held in $4,000 bail each. 1t is charged
tAat they went to the wholesale ware
house of julius Well Son & Co. at So
Ninth Avenue and presented a permit
Tor the purchase and removal of 200
cases Of whisky valued at $4,000.
Meifs employees kept the men in the
therlties, who declared the permit
forgery.
fhe two men told Robert Beattie.
Assistant United States Attorney,
that man hired them to take
the permit to Well and promised to
pay them we'll if the permit was hon
ored. Levines bail was later reduced
70 $1,000. which was furnished.
:. Dry agents found three cases of
liquor wrapped in suitings and con-
signed as such, they say, to B. Rosen-
oefg, 3ol West Eighth Street, KAN
sss ety, No. The liquor was discov-
cred when one Of the cases was
smashed on pier No Al. North River.
, Charles Lee, saloonkeepe at 757
fulton Street, Brooklyn, was arrested
Yesterday afternoon charged with vio-
iaaslng the Folstead act. This is his
loerth offence, II IS said. He was ar
fslgned before United States Commits
ssoner Barmore and held in 81, 900 bail.