New Britain herald., 1921-10-15
LIQUOR FROM N. Y.
 VIA CONN. RIVER
Richardson Also Believed lm-
 piCated in Transportation

The real truth of one of the sources of 1iquor said to have been brought into this city by rum runners during the past summer apparently has been brought to light by discoveries said to have been made by state police that mysterious high powered speed boats plying at night on the Connecticut river were unloading their illicit car goes at or near Middletown.
 The officials. the story goes, have learned that liquor waa brought up the river from New York on speed boata and taken to tho so-called patent medicine" farm of the Richardson family at Newington, from which place it was distributed.
 The Hotel Grand is said to have been the official headquarters in tho city and 1t is through this source that the liquor is thought to have been dis pensed to local dealers. This is the phase of the run-running traffic which it is thought first came to the atten- tion of former Prohibition Agent Thomas F. McAuliffe and which re- suited later, the authorities feel, in his alleged accepting bribes from ths Giardino brothers or others mixed up in the business to keep hands off,"
 Richardson May be Witness.
 Mucn interest is being shown in the coming trials of McAuliffe and the Giardino brothers. That former Ser geant Richardson Will be material witness against the suspended federal official as we'll as the two hote! men is accepted by local people as tore- gone conclusion. Richardson ia rumored to have '+come through" en- tirely and the confession is felt to involve number of others in this. city who have not as yet came under the shadow of & superior court war rant The confession also is said to involve those whose names have been made public 70 far greate" ex- tent than the public realizes. That the patent medicine" farm was blind, that Jake Wrinkle was the go-between and the Grand hotei the official head quarters of the gang is thoroughly be- lieved
 Police Are Active
 Chief Rawlings finds himself in 8 peculiar position here. There is no doubt now but that Richardson put | one over on the department and 1t | is up to the department to redeem itself. The strong arm squad'' is out
 with blood in it's eye and offenders are warned that there will be no rest tor the wicked in this city henceforth. In addition to the determination of the local police to get every violator of the
 law there is the expectation that local Judges will give those convicted the
 limit of the law, providing jail sen ltences in most cases and giving 10 lleniency from now on. The statement lis made by United States Prohibition Director Harry F. Mackenzie, that saloon men violating the closing order
 who have been proven to have sold iliquor containing more than one half of one per cent alcohol will be brought Unto superior court and their places of
 business closed by injunction.
 Raid in Hartford
 | That all the liquor was not coming l from down the river nor from up in the northwestern section of the state is shown by a raid last night in Hart ford. Police in the Capital City raided a garage on Bond street which con- l tained two stills, one of a 24 gallon capacity going full blast, another
 smaller one not operating, a 15 gall
 To ncask of prepared whiskey, a gall
 lon of raw spirits, 300 pounds of
 brown sugar, IA barrels of mash, and
 a wash tub full of liquor in the process of fermentation. Several men were ar
 rested in Hartford yesterday on liquor violation charges.
 | Prosecutor Day announced yester- day that John and Timothy J. Long, owners of the Longs hotel where Is3O,0OO worth of liquor was seized this week, will be summoned into court October 26 to show cause why
 the liquor should not be adjudged a
 nuisance under the law and to try to show that it was not being held for
 sale. If the court finds the liquor was