New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-12
Women Seized
For Smuggling.
~ 80 S
Wine I'm Skirts
Fined SIS a Quart ON
Liquor After 1t Is Taken
Ashore From a Steamer
That Comes From Italy
Mrs. Parkins Is Indicted
Federal Court Disrnisses Sa-
loon Man Who Supplies
Whisky for q Sick Wife

s,x women, ons grandmother, ap-
,.sred yesterday in the law depart
.,.nt Of the Customs House to pay
sres for liquor they had not succeeded
IN smuggling from the Italian steam
.h;n Giuseppe Verdi. which arrived
rebyuary from Naples. The women
we're arrested last Thursday coming
from the ship.
Two guards on duty at Pier %. North
p;ver, where the Giuseppe Verdi is
bsrthed. noticed the six women go
,board. When they disembarked their
cross tonnage was greater than when
thew went aboard.
The guards inquired whether they
had with them anything from the ship
Certainly not; they had gone aboard to
see relatives
They were taken to the barge Office
AMI searched by women inspectors.
Tbirty-one bottles of wine were found
Sung from their hips and concealed by
their dresses.
Fined So Bottle
When arraigned yesterday they were
fined s4O0 each. Impossible! They
wspt. They pleaded. Finally it was
agreed to release them on q payment
ois5 for each bottle found on them.
It is understood that the Collector of
the Port, Byron R. Newton, is going to
ask for women inspectors to put a stop
to this traffic.
Three United States commissioners
from Brooklyn conferred with United
States Attorney Leroy W. Ross yester-
day concerning proposed procedure
against violators of the Volstead act.
Two others, McCabe and Barmore, alb
sented themselves.
The plan agreed upon was that on
the complaint of q policeman, prohibit
ton agent or other officer, the assist
ant United States attorney receiving
the complaint shall prepare an infor-
nation and affidavit and obtain a war
rant. The defendant shall be arraigned
before commissioner and held under
bond without q hearing for action in
court
Mr.. Ross asked the two absentees to
notify MIN at once if this procedure
was satisfactory to them. Commits
sioner McCsbe said that he would con-
tinue to discharge his duties. He and
Commissioner Barmore intend to pro-
test to the two Federal judges in
Brooklyn. Mr.. Ross said he did not
understand the attitude of the two COM
missioners.
Judge George W. English in the
United States District Court yesterday
quashed Volstead act complaint after
hearing the circumstances of the case
from Assistant United States Attorney
Edward Reynolds.
Woman Clerk Indicted
was this:
Policema. Patrick Bray on January,
) went to the saloon OF Patrick Quin1,
57O East l38th Street. Bray ard
quinn had been friends, but they bad
had legal disagreement.
Bray asked Quinn for a bottle of
whisky He said his wife was liz and
that he needed it for her. Quinu gave
nm the whisky. Bray offered $2ffor it.
Qulnn refused the money. Bray then
arrested Quinn for violating the Vol
stead act.
Judge English said Fedepai courts
were not established to enable citizens
TO satisfy personal grudges.
Mrs. Mary Parkins, formhrly q clerk
for Prohibition Director Charles R.
0Connor, and arrested en- December
30 in connection with an alleged con-
spiraey with Edward Donegan, Sig
@und "Beansy" RosenfeId and Rosina
Sassone, another of O'Connor's clerks,
to defraud the government. was in
jury. 90 e '''-
She is named with Ben L. Moses and
herman Sattler, and is charged with
using stationery Of the United States
to further scheme to defraud. She is
sad to have taken liquor withdrawal
permits from O'Cohnor's office.
Moses and Sattler are held in Pitts
$4,000 bail