New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-15
Dry Agent Held
For Violation
OF Liquor Laws
Shevlin's Aid Is Accused of
Breaking Volstead Act in
Transporting Whisky;
Secrecy Attached to Case
Hartford Indicts Another
Official Said to Have Re-
moved Liquor From New
York OH Forged Permit

Armand Legier, one Of James S.
Shevlin's prohibition enforcement
agents, was held under $500 bail yes
terday by United States Commissioner
Hitchcock on the charge of aiding and
abetting the violation Of the Volstead
act in transporting fifty cases of
whisky July 9. Legier was suspended
from the prohibition enforcement serv-
ice March 6 last, but has been on the
probationary list since then. His hear
ing was set by Commissioner Hitch
cock for August II. Legier came from
Pennsylvania voluntarily to answer the
charges.
James W. Waldie, also one Of Shev-
Inns agents, is now under indictment
in the United States District Court at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the charge Of IL
legally transporting three barrels of
whisky from this city on permit
which, the Federal authorities charge,
was forged. Waldo was arrested by
Harold B. Dobbs, internal revenue
agent at Torrington, Conn, May 18 and
taken to Hartford. He and the truck
driver, Thomas F. Bowie, of New
Haven, also. under indictment, had been
stopped by Connecticut constabulary
just after they crossed the line. Waldie
was released on $4,000 bail by United
States Commissioner Carroll in Hart
ford.
Is Declared Efficient Agent
Until yesterday nothing was known
of the Leger case. Henry D. Milde-
berger, Assistant United States At
torney in charge of the preparation Of
cases for violation of the liquor laws,
knew nothing about his arraignment.
"Mr. Legier," said Mr.. Mildeberger,
has been reporting to my Office from
time to time in liquor cases. He is one
of Mr.. Shevlin's most efficient agents,
understand, and l am surprised that
he has been held for violation Of the
liquor laws"
Under the Volstead act the govern
ment places, or is supposed to place,
an internal revenue agent on each
truck or other conveyance to see that
whisky and other spirits withdrawn
from licensed warehouses, under per-
nit. is delivered to the proper con-
signee. There is no charge in the COM
plant against Leger beyond the mere
violation of the aiding and abetting'
clause of the act.
Four Alleged Violators Held
Four alleged violators of the Volstead
act were arraigned yesterday before
Commissioner Hitchcock and each held
in bail of $3.50. They are Oscar Halter,
bartender for Charles J. Zimmerman,
who owns q cafe and hotel in New
Rochelle, accused of selling a drink of
whisky to Joseph Jacobs, internal
revenue agent; Frank Harrigan, saloon
keeper, Of % Eighth Avenue, arrested
by Policeman James T. Delaney, of the
Second Inspection District, and accused
of possessing four gallons of whisky;
Charles Jones, Of SAC Fifty-first street,
Brooklyn, arrested by Internal Revenue
Agent Felix Reisenberger, account Of
possessing and transporting whisky;
Harry Glanzrock, 405 Lafayette Street,
Manhattan, who conducts q cafe, ac-
cused of having three quarts Of whis-
ky in his kitchen.
Stolen Liquor Recovered
Eighty-five cases of liquor, recov-
tNN ~ PoAASS anu 4IeucIdl dKcnCS Oh
Newark, N. j., after the theft Of three
truck loads of whisky consigned from
baltimore to a Manhattan wholesale
firm, whose name is withheld, were
loaded on one of the recovered trucks
yesterday and started for this city.
The whisky theft occurred on the Lin
coin Highway near Kearney Meadows.
week ago.
Seventy of the cases were found on
two abandoned trucks near Clifton last
night, and the rest were recovered in
saloons and private homes in Clifton
and Passaic, where the robbers had
sold some of it. These cases were
transported by the thieves in the third
stolen truck and hawked from saloon
to saloon and from house to house.
Federal and police officers in New
ark are conducting series of raids to
break up the liquor traffic. Two ar
rests were made last night, and several
cases of liquor were seized in the bed
room of Benjamin Bertani, saloon
keeper, Of 81 Alderman Street, Clifton.