New-York tribune., 1921-04-22

Guided 1,34s bottles Of Hllered liouor
SoV counterfeit revenue stamps. 1ha
gases, III jugs, 81 barrels. IL demi. mi.
1ohns, 10 cans. Is packages of colorinr
powder, hve stills, four glasses. two
vass OF wine. two tunnels and one la
psehnf and corking machine. During
NO sixteen days the drive has been on
sne property seized by the police in
sluues one truck. one horse and wagon,
barrels and 1915 bottles of ALLEGED
liquor, fourteen stills, thirty-six Kegs,
zaa jugs, 116 cans, all of which is
stored In the Police Department stor-
age house in the old 18th Polico Pre-
cinot, Sheriff and Houston streets.
what the police considered the most
important discovery was that of 1000
barrels and 500 cases of wine in the es-
taoiishment of the Ardin Wholesale
WINE Company. 121 West Twenty-sixth
street. Patrolman Samuel Turkheimer
OF the west Twentieth Street station,
who arrested Lucin Constantine. man
ager of the company, said he under
stood the wine was worth $3.50 900
Constantine was held in $500 bail for
hearing May 10 by Magistrate Jo-
seph Il. Corrigan III the jefferson
Market court. 1t was alleged Constan-
tine held no permit for possession of
the wine. His lawyer said the permit
~held by the company expired last De-
cember and that. although a new per
NIT had been applied for, it had not
been issued. The court instructed the
police to see that the wine was not re-
moved.
Morosco Fined S10O
Oliver MoroscS, the theatrical nro-
Queer, was fined 500 by United States
Judge Thomas l. Chatfield in the Fed
Sral Dlstrict Court, Brooklyn, after he
had pleaded guilty to illegal possession
OF ninety-two bottles of liquor. Judge
ohatheld declared there seemed to be
disinclination on the part of the Fed
eral District Attorneys office to make
thorough investigation of the case.
Nobody seems to know how the
LIQUOR got there" said Judge Chatfed
1T is an unusual thing ! think an
lnvestigation should be made, but the
District Attorney evidently has great
faith In the imagination Of people"
The nlnety-two bottles seized were in
excess of liquor stored in barrels
which Mr.. Morosco had permit to
move.
Il Wa surprised to learn Of these
bottles" Mr.. Morosco told the court.
In raid on house in Washington
Square South, not far from the Judson
Memorial Church. Detectives jackson,
kiefer and Schoenholtz, of the special
service division, seized hve-gallon
can of alcohol, three cases Of alleged
imitation whisky and labels reading
"Martell's brandy" and "Mclvale whis-
KY" They arrested Arthur J.. Storey
a machinist, after purchasing from him
with marked bills case of alleged
whisky, the fumes of which, they said
attracted their attention as they were
strolling through the square in the
carly morning.
Daniel Monahan. forty years old. of
T2O Washington Street, had the ex-
pcrience of. being arrested twice within
three hours by Patrolman Albert NAL
ley, of the I'd Inspection District. He
was held in $500 bail.
Magistrate Norman j. Marsh, in
4orkville court, dismissed the com
plant against Robena Lazar, a waiter
who was arrested Wednesday night in
the main dining room of the new Am
bassador Hotel. He declared there was
no reason to believe the waiter was
I serving anything but food and that