The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-14
SLEUTH'S "SQUEAL"
 REVEALED STOCK
 IN LONGS HOTEL
Richardson, Behind Bars, Also Linked Hood Farm in Bloomfield in Exposure of Liquor Traffic.

Hartford, Oct. 14-From behind the
 bars of his cell at the Hartford county jail, Detective Sergeant An drew J. Richardson, suspended mem
 ment, pointed the way for a"liquor
 ring cleanup which resulted in the sensational Hartford police raid We'd
 nesday night at Longs hotel accom- i the value of about s2O,o and an | additional seizure there last night
 of champagne valued at s1O,O00. Sergeant Richardson, 1t was learn
 ed yesterday, not only pointed out Longs hotel to the state police and
 States Attorney Alcorn as one of the central dispensartes of illicit liquor in this section but drew a connection between this place and the John J.. Hood farm in Bloomfield, where the state police seized liquor to- the value of S6,0o0 on August 20. He also es- 1 tablished the fact that the liquor at
 both places came from a common source.
 Sweeping disclosures by Sergea nt
 Richardson of this nature were made
 at the jail two days after his arrest
 on September 29 and the refusal of Timothy J. Long and Delaney Broth CTS of Hartford and Fred Beloin of
 with bonds of s5O.OOo necessary to
 prevent his being locked up in the r Jail.
 Prosecutors Confer.
 |
 Hartford were closeted with States Attorney Alcorn yesterday for a con- | siderable period at the county build ing. After the conference, MT. All corn was uncommunicative, but he would not deny that information given ! to him by Richardson formed the ba- sis of the action which netted the s30;000 liquor haul at Longs hotel. It was recalled that Prosecutor Day was called to the states attorneys office he day after Richardson con- fessed.
 It is understood that, after being i tipped off, by Richardson as to the general character of the high spots in the liquor ring,,the Hartford po- lice watched Longs hotel until they were sure the time was ripe for raid Their raid Wednesday night was based on quick information, as it is understood that the Iiquor found previous forty-eight hours.
 U. S. Agents at Longs.
 w. E1lery Allyn, assistant to the chief field deputy of the internal rev enue, department, and Field Deputies Flanigan and Mahoney were assign ed by Internal Revenue Collector Ea- ton yesterday to the Long hotel case to protect any government taxes reported that government stamps were missing on the major portion of the packages of Gquor-
 Prohibition Director Mackenzie in formed Prosecutor Day that the Loas Brothers surrendered their liquor per init on March g, 1921, notifying the prohibition office at that time that their supply of liquor was then ex- hausted. Consequently, all liquor found on the premises by the HarS ford police was held illegally.
 MT. Mackenzie said his office would await action by the Hartford authori- ties after which he would ask Unit ed States District Attorney Smith to prosecute in. behalf of his offica. s. Officials to Wait. "sFor the present the federal au- thorities will take no action. In the first place we will wait and see what the city and state officials decide to do'' declared Assistant United States District Attorney George H. Cohen. when asked what part the Federal auth critics would take in the mat