New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Liquor Worth
s 10000 Is
Seized liz, Raid
Imported Whisky and Wine
Taken From Dealer Who
Holds Medicinal and
Sacramental License
Jail by Proxy Charged
Marshal Told Dry Law
Violators Pay Others TO
Serve Terms for Them

Champagne, whisky and wines of al
legged foreign makes, valued at S150 900,
were seized yesterday at the establish
ment Of r. g. L. Weinberger, at 1867
Madison Avenue.
The seizure was made after Izzv Fin.
stein, prohibition agent, is said to have
purchased a bottle of Rhine wine for
$3.50. According to the agents, the
Weinberger brothers have q permit to
deal in liquor for medicinal and sacra-
mental purposes. Einstain said. how
ever, that he had no trouble in obtain
ing the wine.
After the alleged sale agents say
they found 600 cases OF champagne and
assorted wines and seventy barrels of
whisky.
This seizure was the only ign visible
of the alleged forthcoming raid on the
wet places in the city. According to
reports which could Ho1 be corrobo-
rated yesterday, Daniel J. Cnapin.
supervising enforcement agent, has
amsssed Let Of outside talent for &
widespread raid on liquor dealers. Mr..
Ghapln would neither deny nor affirm
the possibility of a series of intensive
raids in the near future,
Goes to Prison by Proxy
1t became known Yesterday that Fed.
eral officials are investigating a unique
game of substitution said to be prac-
tlced by persons who have maltreated
the Volstead act and who have been
sentenced to serve fourteen days in the
Tombs for their actions.
Tins game is played by two persons
the one who is ordered to serve a
term in jail and the one who really
does go to jail. United States Marshal
Thomas Mccarthy has taken official
cognlzance of the rumors and has writ
ten about 1t to United States ATTORNEY
Caffey.
The scheme, as it is understood to
operate, is as follows: A man is found
guilty of having violated the Vol. lead
act and is sentenced to a short term in
prison. He is granted a few days stay
Of sentence that ne may arrange his
affairs. Part of the business of ar
ranging his affairs consists of hiring
another man to go to jail for him and
the other part is in buying a ticket for
some station out of town until the sub
stituta gets ut Of prison.
The substitute appears and repre-
sents himself to the marshal as the
convicted one, He goes to jail and gets
from S75 to 500 for his trouble.
Knows No Specific Case
Marshal Mccarthy said that no
actual case of this kind had come to his
~ttentl .@ but that the sc.eme wa
plausible because the marshal, or his
deputies, do not know whether man
who presents himself as so-and-so and
suggests d walk t. tne Tombs is the
lnAn whom he says he is or not.
There are about fifty persons now in
the Tombs serving sentences fer VIC
lations of the V2istead act Marsha!
sons to Assistant United States A tor
ney Reynolds, and it is understood
that a check-up OF those now in jail
Will be made
Walter Murphy, an agent of the spe-
clal Intelligence unit uf the Bureau
Of Internal Revenue, yesterday ar
rested Charles Miianese, an account
ant. OF 40 East 10th Street, while he
was about to start for Brooklyn on
the subway. Mianese is said to have
mad IN MS possession a sample of the
KIND of whisky he cou dispense and
set of stamps bearing the signature
AN'' ~ CH4.iO4, SI@tS AI4 &C. VI
of prohibition, and those others neces-
sary to the completion Of good lsok-
ing forged permit.
Mrs. Perkins Held
Mi!anese is said to be the first cap
tive in a new line of trade. He is said
to be "bootlegger's ACCOUNTANT"
Mrs. Mary Perkins, formerly clerk
n Mr.. O'Connor's ofkce, who was ar
rested December 80 last in the Hotel
McAlpin, charged With conspiracy TO
deIraud the government sarsagh the
embezzlement Of liquor Withdrawal
permits from the directors oTee, ap-
peared yesterday before Jadye Mayer
IN the United States District Court and
entered q tentative plea of not guilty
She was held in $4,000 bail