New Britain herald., 1921-10-14
LID
 CLAMPED TIGHTLY
Richardson Reported Responsible
 for Recent Activities

Due principally, it is said, to tips" received frohh Former Detective Ser geant A. J. Richardson, and following a second raid on Longs hotel in Hart ford last night where the police con- f1scated an additional 500 worth of liquor, making $30,000 in all taken from there in less than a week, and a raid on Lennehan's cafe, where five cases of whiskey were found, Prohibi- tion Director Harry E. Mackenzie has issued orders closing all saloons in the. state where found to be selling more than one-half of one per cent. liquor.
 The raid on Lennehan's widely known cafe at Trumbun and Pearl streets, which cafe is said to be the property of John T. Lennehan, was conducted by the vice squad and pro- hibition enforcement squad of the Hartford police department. Five cases Of choice whiskey were conf1s- cated and removed to police head quarters. The liquor was found on the second floor of the building, where Lennehan claims his residence, in room directly over the saloon.
 Liquor Worth $3O, ,OOO.
 That the s30,00o worth of liquor seized at Long's hotel may have come from Canaan and other places in that section of the state, where local rum runners were said to have obtained considerable of the illicit fluid is be- lieved, from the statement alleged to have been made by Richardson that the booze taken from Long's hotel and the $6,000 worth seized at the farm of John F. Hood, in Bloomfield, sev eral weeks ago came from a common source. Richardson is thought to have knowledge of considerable booze com ing from the upper corner of the state, as we'll as from down towards New Haven. Tt is rumored that the disclosures are duplicating more strongly than ever promisent men and officials in this city.
 The refusal of Timothy J. Long, the Delaney Brothers and Fred Beloin to come to the rescue of the Richard sons with sufficient bail is said to have had considerable influence upon the deposed detective sergeant in the sweeping disclosures he is alleged to have made. It is in connection with | the confession made by Richardson that other prominent arrests are ex- pected here. Inasmuch as two men
 who stand we'll in the ranks of the re- publican party are rumored to be i'm pIicated in the investigation subse- | uuent developments are being watched ] with interest.
 It Is said that the raid last Wednes- l day night on Longs hotel when s20,- 600 worth of high priced liquor was
 conf1scated was made>on a sudden tiI l and that the police claim the liquor i was received within the 43 hours pre- 1 ceding the raid. Prohibition Director T Mackenzie, who issued the tatewidt 4 order following the second raid o1 tthat hotel last night, in a statenen said that the Long brothers had sur
 rendered their liquor permit on Ma. g, notifying his office that their suppl. of liquor was exhausted. Consequent ly all liquor found on the premise since that time is claimed to hav
 been held Illegally.
 Following action by the Hartfort authorities, MT. Mackenzie said h
 would ask United States District At
 torney Smith to take action.
 It is understood that Superintendent
 Hurley of the state police got in -toucl
 with Mackenzie immediately after tn , issue of the order and offered tn services of the state police in enforc ? ing the order. This action was follow t ed early this morning by Chief vii
 liam J. Rawlings, of the local polio
 department, with the statement, "W
 are at the disposal of anybody wh . wants to enforce the laws"
 : Ralph H. Blakeslee. who has bee