New-York tribune., 1920-01-24
Sprees Solve
S56,0OOWhiskv
Theft Mystery
Six Arrested After Liquor
Is Traced to Hotels in
Long Island; Six More
To Be Indicted To-day
Rum Stolen From Pier
Two Men Die of Wood AL.
cohol i'll East Rockaway:
Brooklyn Druggist Held

An abundance of whisky among au-
,omobilis.s and hotel frequenters be-
tween Huntington, Mineola and OYSTER
Bay since last November aroused tho
suspicion of Detective Murphy. of the
4th Precinct detective bureau, and In
spector Humphreys. of the New York
Central Railroad. AS the result of
their Investigation, which ultimately
led to big cache of whisky at Hunt
;ngton, six men We're arrested in
Brooklyn yesterday. They are being
held in connection with the loss of
s5e,00O worth of liquor stolen in tran
81. from the Rugby Distlling Com
pany Of louisville. Ky, and Hiram
Walker & Sons, Ltd. Of Walkerville.
Ont, TO foreign ports. Six other men
will be indicted anc arrested to-day
on the same charge, according TO Fed
eral Prosecutor Leroy W. Ross.
Six Accused in THEFT
Those under arrest are: Thomas
Sheehan, John Lahey. alias "spoto
Lahey; Abraham Chulew, Michael
Chiurco, Alfred Handl and John Huj-
son.
The liquor. in 5s7 cases and six bar
Yels, was Htaken from Pier %, East
River. Manhattan. last November
Watchmen at the pier were held up at
the point Of a gun by a number of
men; who came we'll supplied with auto
trucks. These bandits, it is declared
knocked at the door o. the warehouse
said they were foatmen. and then stuck
gun into the faces of the two watcN-
men when the door was opened AS
soon as third watchman came he re-
celyed the same treatment
Inen the whisky was taken from the
Ice box and the three watchmen locked
IN the box 50 securely that it was sew
eral hours before they we're released.
Meanwhile the liquor started across
Brooklyn in trucks. Breaks in the con-
voy. however. necessitated certain
The result was that by the time the
liquor got TO the home Of Chiurco. in
huntington. the drought had been
htted along the route.
Whisky hrOuses Comment
The presence Of an abundance Of
whisky caused so much local comment
that III a short time the detectives de-
cided 10 investigate a hotel in Hunt
ingtcn. A search of woodpilc behind
the hotel revealed pieces of the cases
the liquor had been stored in. The pro-
priotor then later admitted buying ten
eases at SIS a case. He found it so
good. ne aid. that he passed the word
on to another hotel proprietor in Oyster
Nay. The latter doubled the order. as
Tho klndllur rood in his woodpilc sub
ssGucn'y testified when tho detective.
also i0vcs igated there
The search for the rng!caders of the
fake revenue agents who have been
winding saioon men by threats If ar
res continued yesterday. John J.
Quigloy. assistant supervising Federal
prohibition agent for the district. laid
Il" expected shortly TO arrest the leader
who, hc believes. is former dis
charged revenue agent of tho Boston
staA. Nr. Quigley declared he has
found a swindlng scheme that reaches
to Boston. Philadelphia and other
citcs under the leadership of the New
lork gang.
Wood Alcohol Kills Two
Two mon died yesterday at East
Rockaway. apparently from wood al
cohol poisoning. They were Gustave
Grcen. Of Ocean Avenue, Eas. Rock
away, ara JOnH a. cannon. or Itch
burg. Mass. Both men came home
Thursday evening and became so i'll in
the night that DR.. Arthur d. Jacques
xas called. Both then became blind
Green died ABOUT o'clock yesterday
morning and Cannon two hours later.
pr LEAGUES said they had marked wood
alcohol symptoms.
Samuel X. Salceby. a Brooklyn drug
gst Of - Court Street, who was
charged with completely in the wood
alcohol cases which recently resulted
n the death Of several persons in
brooklyn, was released yesterday on
$4,000 bail. He was immediately re-
arrested and taken to Police Head
quarters to be taken to the Flatbush
,oIrt for rcarraignment on other
Announcemcnt was made yesterday
al Trenton. X. J.. hat argument in the
suit instituted by Christian Fcigen-
span Inc. brewers, 20 prohibit United
n2'a,es Attorney Bodine and Collector
DD4Ey, o. the 9th international Revenue
u,.strlct from enforcing the prohibi-
@ Son amendment and the Volstead act.
VII ,5 be heard in Trenton on February
=; ti.hu Root is expected to make the
tHie1 SrVufnpnt w.