New-York tribune., 1921-12-08
Circus Artists
!. OF Old Bob Up
!. l In Rum Raids
Officers Say They Found a
: Still I'M Cellar of House
Where Mrs. Leila Greer,
Former Toe Dancer, Lives
Woman Makes Complaint
Alleged Owner of Jersey
Inn, Founded by Barnum
& Bailey Strong Men, Held

Former circus attractions became IN
voived. directly and indirectly. with
prohibition enforcement cases yester-
day in raids In New Jersey and on Long
Island. In New York City there were
important arrests and seizures, and
much rumor concerning enforcement
investigation and indictments by the
Federal grand jury.
At Freeport, L. l., County Detective
Ferdinand Miller, Of Nassau County,
hanked by two state troopers, raided
the horne Of Mrs. Leila Greer, former
toe dancer and sister OF the Rabel Sis
tcrs, twin midgets with tent shows.
Detective Miller says that he and
the troopers met with strong opposi-
tion at the hands of Mrs. Greer and S.
Brown, owner Of the house and a
wealthy contractor. The officers waved
a search warrant and hicd them to q
cellar with Mrs. Greer after them. In
tha cellar. the officers charge, they
found a still and several bottles Of
liquor.
The complainant in the case is Mrs.
ANNE 4. -esling, who sworc before
County Judge Lewis U. Smith In Mine
ola that she went to see Mrs. Greer to
have her fortune told. and while there
bought bottle of whisky. Mrs. Greer
was later held under $500 bond.
Albert G. Mohar, alleged owner of
IVA uaoS M
q negro cook we're arrested in q liquor
raid. The Deer Head Inn was estab-
lished by Gilfort Bros, circus strong
men, who toured the country with Bar
num & Bailey. In their travels they
collected reptiles, animal heads and
other curios which they used to dec
crate the inn.
Four saloonkeepers and fourteen
year-old boy were arrested by New Jer-
sey authorities in other raids.
A man representing himself as
( SGeiger, head of the Rex Drug Com
pany, 1854 Coney Island Avenue" was
arrested at prohibition headquarters by
Agent Joseph J. Mealy yesterday. He
proved to be Benjamin Defren, address
unknown. He is in no way connected
with the drug company, according to
Assistant United States District Attor-
ney S. Solomon, who said:
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bond, presented permit which we
charge is forged, to the w. A. Taylor
Liquor Company. 1t called for 1000
cases of whisky in the name of the
Rex Drug Company, q reputable con-
Germ. The Taylor Company sent Defren
to prohibition headquarters to have his
permit verified. He was arrested there
The Rex company was not interested in
sny way in the case."
One of the biggest seizures Of liouor
yet made in saloon was taken yester-
day by Agents Van Tassel, Mead and
Morgenstern, under Chief Enforcement
Officer r: O.. Merrick. At IL Elm Street
New York, the agents arrested Michael
: Haliaran, as owner, and Dan Griffin,
es bartender, and seized liquors as fol
lows:
Three barrels of bottled beer, three
barrels of porter, four five-gallon dem;-
johns OF whisky, two cases of Scotch
whisky, three cases of wine, nine bot
Ties of whiskies, three barrels of al
cohol, one bottle of gin and two quarts
OF whisky. The value of the seizure is
about $4,000. Raids were continued d
along Broadway and elsewhere.