New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
Police, Driving
DRY Act Home,
Seize $50 More
Magistrate Consoles Six
Prisoners by Saying Only
Strict Enforcement Can
Lead TO a X e pc a |
Brands Law as Vicious
Twenty More Indicted as
Officers Try to Guido
Each Other In Arrests

While New York policemen scurried
about The FIVE horoughs yesterday ar
rest;ne violators Of the Mullan- Gage
1sw. Magistrate Joseph Schwab in the
Harlem Court disclosed CLEAN of
bsre to the tiisconsolate following of
John Barleyeorn.
@Only by strict enforcement of the
lsw can the people hope to have it re
realed." the Magistrate explained, as
ss held half a dozen bartenders for
the grand jury. He consoled the
prisoners by assuring them they were
he victims of & vicious law.
Whatever purpose lay behind the alb
normal activity OF the police they did
their best 70 let no guilty soul escape,
arresting nearly $50 alleged violators
possessors Of a single drink of whisky,
sin toters, even owners of few doses
Of tonic, were rounded up and herded
into the tails and courts along with
retail and wholesale bootleggers.
Court dockets are growing to magni-
cent proportions, clogging the ma
chine-y for dealing with ordinary enc
mics o. society. To meet this situation
there was 8 conference at 800 Null
berry Street. in the Office of Chief City
Magistrate William McAdoo. This was
attended By al the magistrates, repre-
sentatives OF the Police Department, In
Gliding First Deputy Commissioner
John Leach, and Representatives of the
District Attorneys Office. After the
meeting Chief Magistrate McAdoo
issued this statement:
Magistrates Frame Policy
TT was agreed that the sale to any
ore Of what pu-ported to be alcohol,
brandy. whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale
porter or wine Is sufficient to estab-
lish q case without chemical analysis
as t. the 3 \oholic content Of the liquor
so sold; that the new law specifically
names these drinks and defines them
as intoxicating liquors. that it is suf-
fcient case where a policeman buvs
what is sold or given as any of these
liquors and testihes in addition THAI
in taste and smell it corresponds u
what is commonly known as such
cuqnor. The case against the defend
ant Is thereby proven unless he mega
lives this by proof Oh his own account.
That as 20 certain other drinks de-
fined ss spirituous, vinous. malt or fer
mented liquor. liquids and compounds.
whether indicated, proprietary. pat
ented or not, and by whatever same is
called, We take to mean generally GER
tain classes of medicines and tones
and IN these cases chemical ANALYSIS
would be required under certain cir
cumstances.
"That possession Of any intoxicating
ilquor. whether by an individual or ex-
Press company or other carrier. puts
Tie burden Of proof entirely upon the
defendant to show that he possesses
The same legally.
y was agreed that the minimum bail
IS FOR possession should be $500 and
for selling or manufacturing $1,000"
Twenty New Indictments
Twenty additional indictments against
liquor law violators were filed with
Justice John F. Mcintyre in the Court
Of General Sessions yesterday bv this
April grand jury. Sixteen indictm ents
were returned the day before. Most OF
the accused were saloonkeepers
Three Of the men indicted Monday
we're arraigned before Justice Mcintyre
yesterday. All pleaded not guilty ano
we're held IN $1,000 bail for trial The
Justice said it was his intention to fix
bail at $1,000 in all such cases tina
come before him. He said he intende d
70 give the defendants all the time nee.
essary TO test the validity of the in
dictments.
There was a suggestion Of sympathy
for the plight of the indicted men when
the justice remarked that the law was
on the statute books and therefore
must be enforced.
Deputy Commissioner Leach, from
his Office in Brooklyn, spurred the in
spectors under his command to a de-
gree OF activity that is rarely seen in
the chase of ordinary criminals. In
brooklyn and Queens alone the police
ceputy's men made fifty-three arrests
II eighteen hours. Eight arrests were
made ct Coney Island. In Brownsville
and East New York seven were locked
up. All OF the inspectors were kept in
formed Of the 'scores" OF their col
leagues and the rivalry grew keen.
pepper Captures Girl
One example of enforcement "to the
letter Of the law YVES given in the case
Of Miss Valma Hughes, twenty-one
years old, of 4S8 State Street. Police
man Harold Hogan, of Inspector Walsh s
star, peered through the swinging hal
doors at the back room of saloon In
10 Willoughby Street, Brooklyn. He
saw Miss Hughes seated at Il table
and arrested her. In the magistrates
court he said she had a gla>~ Of whisky
IT her elbow on the table. The young
woman waived examination and was
held in $500 bail. Hugh Dolan. the