New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-09
Three Seized at
w arehOuse as
Whisky Thieves
Hole Bored Through Wall
i'm Hallway Discovered;
Prisoners Are Held i'm
$4,000 Bail for Hearing
Explosion Bares Still
u. S. Attorney Ross Seeks
Dry Enforcement Agent
ON ExtOrtiOn Charge

Three men, suspected Of an attempt
to steal $4,000 worth of liquor from q
bonded warehouse at 80 East Forty
sixth Street. were arrested yesterday
and were held in $4,000 bail each by
Magistrate Corrigan, in Yorkville
Court, for hearing tomorrow.
The suspects gave their names as
Jerome Melville, twenty-seven years
old, chauffeur, of 200 DyKman Street;
Joseph Quinn, thirty-four years old,
an ironworker, of 282 Tenth Avenue,
and Joseph F. Noonan, thirty years
old, a chauffeur, of 7S1 Third Avenue.
Patrolman Carrigan, of the East
Fifty-frst Street station, said he was
standing in front of the warehouse and
saw Melville sitting on the running
board of an automobile" Noonan stand
ing across the street and Quinn COM
ing out of the warehouse with his
shoes covered With plaster. = It was
bored through the wall in the hallway,
toward the store Of liquor.
Kettle Explodes
Another arrest was made Tuesday
night by police from Brownsville sta
tion, when detectives Ref and Beck
went to the home of Morris Zuckerman,
He is eighty years old.s They found
him under bed and locked him up.
1t is alleged that Zuckerman was
boiling whisky mash in a kettle and
that the kettle exploded, sending the
lighter furnishings of his home
through the window. Zuckerman was
scalded and in need of medical atten-
tion. The police say they confscated
the still, several barrels of mash and
some peach juice.
United States District Attorney
Leroy W. Ross, of Brooklyn, was in
vestigating the whereabouts of pro-
hibition enforcement agent, named
Benton B. C. Laverty, who is said to
have tried to exort money from Thomas
Herbert, a waiter in George Kallen-
backs saloon, at 1872 Fresh Pond Road.
According to Herbert, Laverty and
in Tuesday night and asked for whisky.
When it was refused him, Herbert
said Laverty drew a flask from his
pocket, ordered two glasses of ginger
ale and proceeded to mix highballs.
Then he ANNOUNCED himself as q rev.
enue officer and threatened Herbert
with arrest if he did not give him
5000, it is charged. Herbert says he
invited Laverty to lock him up, which
he did.
In the Glendale police station the
police say Laverty admitted he was
not revenue officer but q suspended
enforcement agent. Mr.. Ross says
Laverty is under two indictments,
charging him with attempts to ex-
tort money from alleged violators of
the Volstead act. Mr.. Ross questioned
Herbert and Kallenback and refused
to entertain charges against them.
Fake Bond Labels Found
MATAWAN, N. j., Sept S.-Revenue
agents who raided the farm of D. NJ.
Habli yesterday say they found among
other things counterfeit internal reve-
nue. stamps and bonding labels. Habit
is under arrest in New York.
Working on information that liquor
bearing false bonding labels was being
sold in New York and New Jersey,
agents surrounded the house.
A quantity of liquor which had been
made from grain alcohol, eight five
gallon cans Of whisky and a case of
bottled whisky are said to have been