Evening journal., 1920-01-12
SAY Seized
RUM WAS IN
Bond. DOUBT
U.S.. OFFENSE
Continued from First Page.

like amount or liquor, Harry ONcNI
of-Phuadelphia, q truck driver employ
ed by the Fast Motor Service Trans
portation Company Of Philadelphia, Is
being held at the police station pending
a hearing before Magistrate ellis, the
date OF which Has not been set.
The arrest OF o'Nelll presages the
strongest dghl ever waged in the state
courts on The liquor question. Gov
ornment .ofilcials today asserted how
ever, that as far as the Government is
concerned no violation of the Federal
statute had been found in the case SO
far
O'Neill's arrest was made by Con-
stable Apsley Of Newark following a
telephone conversation with Police
Captain kelleher. after O'Neill had in
formed Apslcy when he stopped for
gasoline az Newark, that he had whis-
key aboard a large truck he was driv-
ing. The truck load Of wet goods
was brought 10 this city by COnstables
Fennimore and Wilmington who were
ordered 20 Newark by state Detective
! Mccoy
The cargo was unloaded at the Office
Of Magistrate Harry ]. ellis. late sat
urday night and while This work was
in progress a crowd of five hundred or
more men and women gathered at the
magistrates Office The liquors, which
I consisted OF one hundred cases of bond
cd whiskey and twenty-five barrels
holding nifty gallons each were taken
into tho magistrates Office and later re-
moved 60 q van and taken TO the Sc
curity Storage Warehouse at Sixteenth
and King streets.
While this was being done, 10 Is
| said six or seven cases Of the whisky
valued at about $1,000 disappeared. Just
who took 10 is a. mystery, but several
persons who had c0nerCgated Whh the
crowd az the magistrates Office said
that two men were seen carrying cases
south on Shlpley street while the cases
were being passed through the Shipley
street window OF rho magisiratc's office.
Constable Jones when asked about lhe
loss Of the whisky today said he he'd
heard that several OF the eases were
missing but he had merely passed them
! through the window TO Constables rem
nlmore and Nhittlngton who Woro on
The outside Constable Jones TOOK ac-
count Of the goods he passed oul ana
whtn the storage house was reach'd'
10 was found that six or seven cases
were missing. -,
The liquors were consigned. to John
Fr.cdcrich. q wholesale bother OF Ne.
a.; Rising Sun Lane, Philadelphia. aa'l
cro valued All $4,000. The owner sald
h, purchased tho liquors In Bat more
last .Jlne for SIC 600 The liquor haf
,ser. shipped from the TiacO Bothrs
Works, Light and Prott streis' baltl-
rloye
given hearing hef0ro Magistrate
ellis this morning. but for some rea-
son. which Squire ellis could mol eX-
lnlain. the defendant was not ar
raigned. ellis said he did not know
when the haering would be conducted.
II II Donaldson, head Of the intelli-
gence department Of The lntrenal heN-
enue Department, was present ana SAID
that in his opinion the liquors were
contiscated while being shipped inter-
state. lie further said that as tar as
he knew the case was one for the SlaJc
courts and not for the government
donaldson was informed by Con
stable Jones that the owner OF the
liquors had admitted moving the stun
Ito his warehouse in Philadelphia,
where he proposed toNsell il to whole
.,ie druggists on government permits.
Mir. donaldson said 10 would not be a
violation Of the government law ana
unless il was shown that n sale OF the
lliduors had been consummated between
last June and the time 1t was cohus-
Gated here, he did not see how the gov
ernment laws had been violated.
IL IS thought by many officials Una.
the Loose law may not cover TINS case
on account Of The transportation pelhs
made through The county and the en-
forced stop at-Newark for gasoline MOI
a "stop" within the intent OF the law,
, ONell. the driver of the truck, tod
the police that prior TO leaying Baitl-
l more with the shipment he asked y De
needed Federal agent TO get hid
through and he was told that the ship.
ment was lawful. and that he Noulo
moi he bothered an route 10 Phuadel-
lphia. lie said q train of trucks Weh'
through Wilmington in the mornlns
< and several I'm the afternoon, all ioaue1
p: With whisky. He told the constahle'
i mat another truck had preceded nm
on the road into Newark. ConstaD!c'
= wilmington and Fennimore made
|: dash for the truck but failed to lo
= cate IL. -.
While the liquors were beins trans
ferfed to the storage house from ih'
automobile trucks yeslerday,a larS'
crowd gathered and it was necessary
for ibc police 10 remain on guard "a
| Inc storage house TO see that none O
tbe cases were stolen as had been dom
on saturday nisht.
! William and Elmer Fisher, automO
bile dealers OF this city who are un
der bail on the charge of Violatin'
he Loose liquor law in havins mos
iban one quart of liquor in their pos
session. were TO have been given hear
ing before Magistrate ellis on satur
day night, but owing to uhe absence o
Attorney General Reinhardt the case
wcre postponed until next saturday
III 1t is said thai the liquor found in th
| possession Of the Fishers was IN Ia
process OF transportation when seized
II Fisher. it is understood was about 4
move his household effects to anothe
property and his intentions were 4
lake the intoXicants to the new home
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