The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-10


was held up and searched. and over her
protest that If there was any whiskey
anywhere in 1t she knew nothing of it's
presence. She was taken to a hotel
and detained there while she was ques-
toned in an endeavor TO obtain evidence
from her against Miller Miller was dis
charged on the day of his arraignment
and his counsel at once declared that he
would prefer charges. on the girls be-
half. against the agents who had de-
tanned her.
y The same day Commissioners Heating
discharged Charles Kuzon, in whose
home customs agents had seized a case
of Canadian whiskey. pointing out that
II was not Illegal for householder to
possess whislSey and that there was no
warrant In law for searching his home
The customs men had based their case
on information given them by Canadian
authorities but the court ruled again
that information was not evidence.
Once again. as to Agent Waters whis-
key ring. There is no evidence to show
that 1t had domination or control over
Patrick Q. Stynes. or Paddy LAWN, as
he was known professionally. a prize
tighter of Buffalo, who climbed through
the ropes of the squared circle during
last summer and embraced career
upon the road
Paddy's fame and memory remain
green. but he has taken his last drive
between Buffalo and the big city OF
New York. for he was killed when his
car overturned in ditch near Albany
and pinned him beneath It, In his
pockets was found $4,000 and he also
had a bank draft for $4,000 more. The
administrators of his estate has declared
that IL amounts to something over
$4,000, all in personal property. When
LAWN quit the fighting game he had
begun to take on flesh and had no
money at all.
His death was due. almost primarily.
to certain Discrimination he had for
giving away money. He had told
friends of his that the pleasures OF auto
MODELLING between Buffalo and New
York had been greatly decreased during
the late summer and autumn by men
who emerged from shrubbery and. dis
playing badges in the darkness. repre-
sented' themselves to be enforcement
agents and demanded tribute.
Thick with Road Agents.
The roads, particularly between New
York and Albany. were thick with them,
he complained. and every one who
$40. LAWN, to be quit of them and after
an intensive study of the road maps,
worked out course by lonely roads to
Albany. and 1t was while he was
traversing one of them on a black night
that his car lurched into an unsupported
ditch and crushed him beneath 1t.
Two youths who put up at a Buffalo
hotel within 4 day or two left there their
testimony as to extortion on the road.
They were both from New York. they
said. and had passed the night In one
of the best suites in the house. Paying
their bill at the hotel just after night
fall. and stating that they would be on
their way. one Of them walked to the
cashiers window and asked to have a
$1,000 bill changed into tens. Asked
what he wanted with all those small
bills, he answered quite frankly that he
was "in the business between Buffalo
and "down the river" and that when
you hit the roads these nights you want
to be well heeled with tens"
TT Is impossible" said a man at
country club In this neighborhood last
Saturday night, that men who are
bold enough to take the risks of rum
running on the roads should be. craven
enough to hand out money TO 4ny one
who asks them. 1 don't believe it,
He looked about the table-there was
whiskey on it-and saw one of the party
working in arithmetic on the back of
an envelope.
I'm inclined to believe it n YOU
don't" said the arithmetician. but be-
fore / go out and try my theory I'm
trying to figure how much money the
rum runners have charged me for their
carelessness In letting revenue men or
So fak
Collected His Dues.
Concluding his calculation he took an
other drink and his departure. In two
hours he telephoned IN. saying that he
had stopped twenty-one cars in an hour
and a half and that drivers OF nine
OF them had handed him a so bill as
soon as he wished them the time OF
night.
IT figured that the road only owed
me 49," he said, but the last boy
stopped wouldn't walt for his change"
Getting drink in Buffalo city Is no
great achievement. All you need to do
Is to have somebody-almost anybody
introduce you at almost the first saloon.
Two saloons out of three sell whiskey
or it's counterfeit all day. some of them
all night. Drunken men are uncommon
but not especially rare upon the streets:
on the waterfront the lake sailors seem
to be able to get all they want
A good deal of liquor comes In by
boat along the waterfront and Is re-
ceived under piers and taken from there
a little at a time. The police and Coast
Guard have learned the significance Of
power boats, which giving every evil
dence of distress In bad weather fly no
distress signals. They are always whis-
key boats, and the men In them always
hang on to the last gasp before they
are willing to signal, the shore for help.
Niagara, with its tradition of compell-
ing the visitor to its natural wonder to
pay out all the money which can be ex-
.racted from him on any pretext, is doing
a fine business In illegal booze. The
source of supply. Just across the river
at any point reasonably above or be-
low the falls. is so near that the profit
OF selling on the American side Is
and almost any taximan,
guide or hotel servant is ready to lead
The tourist to where 1t can be obtained.
There is another feature or the work.
Ing out Of prohibition in Buffalo which
Is giving the police more than common
concern. This Is the institution OF the
night club by criminals. When the
saloons were working In the good old
way there were certain ones known as
the resorts of criminals and the police
could always walk in or out Of them and
keep an eye on what might be going ON.
Criminals Form Clubs.
But now that drink is illegal the
criminal classes have formed the club
habit and the police OF Buffalo and
OF Rochester say that II is