The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-10
DRY AGENTS. WINE
HAUL IS RADED
IN MULBERRY ST.
Shots Fired, Police Reserves
Called and a Field
Day for Kids.
HUNDREDS IN FIGHT
Peddlers Grab for Barrels
With Wine Press Output
to Load on Pushcarts.
YOUNGSTERS THEN GRAB
Prohibition EnfOrcers Finally
Arrest Owner Of Restaurant
on the Bend
YOUNGSTERS THEN GRAB

Il was a great day for the kids in
Mulberry street yesterday when three
prohibition enforcement agents raided
a basement at 125 and rolled nine bar
rels OF wine out into the street. Nearly
every pushcart pedler in the vicinity
attempted to load one of the barrels
on to his cart, and the enforcement
agents tried to stop them. The result
was that all the pushcarts were over
turned and the officers drew their guns.
and for fifteen minutes there were
great shoutings and f1ghtings and
shootings and such noise as even Null
berry street seldom hears.
According to the reports of Agents
Ernstthal, Reager and Diver, they
found wine press in operation In the
Mulberry street basement They brought
live barrels of wine to the sidewalk ana
started back for more, when they saw
pushcart pedler trying earnestly to hoist
a barrel on to his cart, while two other
men made efforts to load a barrel each
into an automobile The agents tried
10 prevent it and the fight started. One
agent hit pedler and then a pedler hit
the agent Several hundred men at this
began fighting earnestly, with the wine
as a prize.
Ernstthal drew his revolver, but the
crowd was so dense and there was so
much going on that he decided not to
use 1t and showed it back into hsi pocket.
-Four or five Of the crowd that plunged
and shrieked about the wine barrels
Jumped on the dry agent, with the evil
dent intention Of tearing him into pieces,
rk, hntrn irO
best he could.
steals Dry Agents Gun
One person pulled Ernstthal's gun
from his pocket but before he could do
anything with 1t Agent Reager drew his
own gun and began to fire shots into the
air. The pedler who had seized Ernst
thal's gun uttered loud cry, dropped
the gun to the pavement and fled
swiftly down the street with his push
cart. half dozen boys going along with
MIN and footing as they went.
The shots fired by Reager frightened
the crowd so that It fell back from the
barrels of wine. overturning pushcarts
and almost trampling some small boys
who were fast gathering fortunes in
fruits and articles of all sorts. The
shots also were heard by Patroman Sui
ivan at Canal and Mulberry Streets and
he teIephoned to the Elizabeth street
station, which sent seven men to the
rescue OF the wine barrels.
The policemen scattered the crowd and
then the prohibition agents arrested
Thomas Cagliardi. who has a reetaur~-r
above the raided basement. He will be
arraigned before United States Commits
sioner Hitchcock this morSing.
Police Commissioner r1nright is APP
parently unwilling 10 cooperate with
United Statos Attorney Ross OF Brook
lyn in hfs plan for getting Information
regarding violators OF the Volstead act
from drunks and their wives. it was
learned at the Federal Building in
Brooklyn yesterday. Mr.. Ross asked
The Police Department for a daily list
Of the men arrested for drunkenness In
his district. To this Acting Police Com
missioner Leach was agreeable, but the
order since has been revoked.
Tries Agnfn for Drunk List.
DIR. Ross wrote TO Chief Magistrate
McAdoo yesterday. requesting his CO.
operation in the matter to the extent of
providing the Brooklyn District Attor-
ney's Office with daily list OF all per-
sons brought before the magstrates'
courts charged with intoxication In
Brooklyn. Queens and Richmond.
Federal Judge Chatfeld in Brooklyn
adhered to his determination to impose
Jail sentences upon violators OF the
Volstead act, sentencing Christ Ander-
son. a saloon keeper at 329 Smith
street, TO fifteen days in Jail, with a fine
OF 800.
Application for certificate OF rea-
sonable doubt was made to Justice
Benedict In Brooklyn yesterday In be-
half Of Carmine Lizenzlata. who was
convicted OF manslaughter in the first
degree in connection with the sale OF
wood alcohol last Christmas. 1t was
argued that Kings county was not the
proper Jurisdiction for the trial, and
that n physician and n chemist who
testified against Lizenziata were not
qualified to pass judgment. Decision
was reserved.