New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-14
Dry Aids Raid
Hotel Next to
ReisenweI,er's
Police Seize Wagonload of
s.a4aoss arrest Porters
Accused as Go-Besweens
for Restaurant Walters
State Law Tested I'm Suit
Swami Restrained From En-
forcement Pending Action
Over Sacramento Wine

A wagon load of liquor was seized
last night at the Circle Hotel, 9S7
i Eighth Avenue. which is separated by
a partition from Reisenweber's restau-
rant in the same building. Detectives
Cannon and Conley, of Inspector Boet-
stler's staff, who made the raid, as
serted that diners in Reisenweber's
mad been able to order liquor from
fheir walters who obtained it from
She hotel.
John Martin, Of sos West Fifty
eighth Street, and Peter. WANDERERS, Of
s42 Ninth Avenue, porters at Reisen-
weber's, were arrested. 1t is alleged
that they were the Intermediates
through whom the walters obtained
the liquor.
When the detectives entered Che
5 hotel patrol wagon clattered up and
backed against the curb opposite
Researchers. It's presence there
caused crowd to collect, in the be-
lief that the restaurant was being
raided and its patrons searched.
Diners in the restaurant became
somewhat excited also as the police
made their way to the street through
the hall of the restaurant, laden on
each trip with cases of liquor. The
seizure filed the patrol wagon from
floor to cover and was piled up behind
the desk In the West Forty-seventh
Street rn1fce station
State Enforcement Restrained
Justice McAvoy, in Special Term,
Part II, of the Supreme Court, yester-
day enjoined District Attorney Swami
from enforcing the Mullen-Gage state
dry act against the Exporters Ware
house Company, of $40 Washington
Str eet, while the company is pressing
ar action to prove the law unconstitu-
tional.
The court also directed the District
Attorney and Police Commissioner En-
right to show cause next Tuesday why
they should not return 1918 gallons of
sacraTnental wine, seized in April at
the plaintiffs warehouse.
The wine was a consignment which
the Exporters Warehouse Company re-
permits for the issuance of sacrame entail
wine went into effect. Milton C. Weis-
mann, attorney, of cit Broadway, an
nounced that, regardless of the New
York statute, he was advising his clients
that no permit was necessary for such
wine. The state law, he said, was un-
constitutional.
Louis Pollak is president of the COM
pany and David NJ. Pompan is secre-
atary-treasurer. The prime object of
the suit IS to prevent the forfeiture of
the wine, but it is intended also as q
judicial test of enforcement of the
Mullan-Gage law. The issues will he
argued in court on Tuesday.
Moves to Enjoin Building Owners
Applications for injunctions were
fled yesterday in the United States
Court against the owners of sixteen
buildings in Brooklyn declared to have
been used for saloon purposes.
The calendars of the state courts
continue clogged with liquor orosecu-
tions, according to Assistant District
Attorney Joab Banton, who is prepar-
ing to submit the actions to the special
grand jury which shortly will be i'm
paneled. The situation, it is said,
would be relieved when Justice Henry
". Borst convened the extraordinary
term of the Supreme Court early in
June.
Four dismissals of liquor cases were
recorded yesterday. Magistrate Thomas
j. Nolan in Jefferson Market court dis
charged Charles w. Dumont, of Mount
Vernon, N. Y, president of the Ameri-
can Law Publishing Company, who was