New-York tribune., 1920-07-30
so U. S. Agents
In Many Raids
Bars
News of Proposed Clean-Up
Precedes Them and Most
Saloonleepers Dispose
of Their Whisky Supply
$4,000 Stocks Seized
Only Two Arrests Are Made:
Move Seen as First Step
OF Enforcement Crusade

forty prohibition enforcement agents
from New York and an equal number
llom Philadelphia arrived in Newark
yesterday with four motor trucks and
thA avowed determination to "clean up''
the city. They had ffty-two search and
secure warrants to be served in New
ark ana 1orty-eight more which are to
DC served IN other communities.
me elaborate raid had been planned
IN Washington as a lesson TO dealers
IT illicit liquor and to prohibition
agents who failed to enforce the law
1t was said to be the first step in a
crusade to make the law effective in
this district. There was a suspicion
abroad also that recent assertions bv
the Anti-Saioon League that the situa-
ton IN New jersey was a scandal had
something to do with the expedition.
Evidence on which the warrants
were issued was obtained several weeks
ago however, though the raid itself is
believed to have been planned Wednes-
day when George W. Van Note, prohi-
bltion director for New Jersey, con-
ferred in Washington with John f.
Kramer, Prohibition Commissioner.
Preparations for the raid were made
with the utmost caution and agents
were drawn from outside cities to pre-
vent whisper of their intention from
becoming known. 1t was expected
that hundreds of thousands Of dollars
worth Of LIQUOR would be discovered
and evidence obtained upon which
most of the liquor dealers of Newark
could be driven out of business. It
was not intended TO make any arrests
News of Raids Precedes Them
Things did not turn out just that
way, however. The early afternoon
editions of the Newark newspapers.
which were on sale before the raiders
got down to work, announced that they
were in town and what they intended
to do. 1t was a warning which was
quite unnecessary SO far as The saloon
men of the city We're concerned, how
ever, for it had been impossible for
the preceding twenty hours to buy
drink in a Newark saloon, even in
those where before that it had been
sold openly across the bar.
Almost all of the liquor which the
raiders believed they were going to
seize had been hidden securaly and
was not to be found. Saloon after
saloon was searched without avail and
as the bafed prohibition men emerged
they We're greeted with jeers and
laughter by the crowds that followed
them on their rounds. In all they got
about $35, 900 worth of liquor.
Even their announcement that there
would be no arrests failed to forecast
the event accurately. The agents who
visited Robert Leach's saloon, at Wash
ington and New streets, found that
they had to make a few arrests to
maintain their dignity.
Leach's saloon was innocent Of any,
thing stronger than sarsaparilla, but
the searchers noticed that there was
a dumbwaiter shaft in the rear room
which extended upward through the
apartments which occupied the upper
floors of the building. They announced
that their warrants covered the entire
building, and began to search it sys-
teratically from the saloon up.
On the third floor, i'll the apartment
of Arthur Everton, an automobile
they were stopped by Mrs.
Everton when they tried to open the
door Of q room adjoining the dumb
waiter SHAFT. She was drawing a glass
of water when the men entered, and
she kept it in her hand as she followed
them about the apartment. When they
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