New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Whisky, Drugs and Other
Alleged Struggled Goods
Are Seized: Hart Is
Now Enforcement Chief
NO Place to Store Rum
Appraisers Stores Over
flowing; Stocks To BE
Disposed OF at 81 Bottle

Judge Harold L. Hart, of Bingham
Son, is now the active head of Federal
prohibition enforcement in this dis
Sract, but he is not expected to be in
MS Office at 10 West Twenty-seventh
Street until Tuesday. Charles R.
O'Connor spent his last day in charge
of the offices yesterday. lie said in
parting statement:
"The police are going hog wild In
their methods Of prohibition enforce
ment, but their methods seem to be
effective. am afraid. though, that
when they annoy responsible citizens
they will find they cannot get away
with it,
The few Federal prohibition enforce
ment agents left after the release of
133 in this district, because of no ap-
preparation to pay salaries, joined Win
customs agents Friday night and yes
terday in a series of waterfront raids.
Many ships were searched. several ar
rests were made and much contraband.
sn the form of liquors, drugs and otner
alleged smuggled goods were seized.
The staff of Inspector A. G. Hoken-
aon, in charge of customs liquor rand"
ers, will either have to moderate their
efforts or find q new place to store
seizures, as all available storage room
in the Appraisers Stores is full to over
fiowing A public sale of seized liquors
set for Tuesday and Wednesday IS eX-
pected to relieve the situation.
To Be Sold at ST Bottle
LIQUOR is being sorted out in gallon
ease and bottle lots to be sold at 81
bottle and 81 a gallon to hospitals,
drug stores and other legal permit
holders 1t is expected that more than
$4,000 will be realized as a result of
the sale Inspector Hokenson says
that because some offenders have been
successful in smuggling liquors from
ships many have attempted to smuggle
other goods, and there are more cases
OF general smuggling than in years.
Only eight indictments resulted in
eighty-eight cases of alleged liquor
law violation presented to the Kings
County grand jury yesterday.
In the case of Mrs. Mary Wohlsch-
lager, of 961 Metropolitan Avenue, the
Jury dismissed her when evidence
showed the woman manufactured only
the amount of whisky her husband was
accustomed to using. By this ruling
can be their husbands distillers if they
keep the product in the family
Widow Left Only Whisky
Mrs. Rebecca Hirschman, a widow,
succeeded in having case dismissed
by the jury when she testified that her
husband had left her nothing of value
but one gallon of whisky. She was
trying to sell this at Coney Island when
she was arrested, she said.
United States District Attorney Ross,
of Brooklyn, yesterday caused the ar.
rest of eight alleged offenders whose
cases had been dismissed by magis-
trates or the Kings County grand jury.
He said he would continue to bring
such cases before United States com
missioners. The evidence gathered by
the police will be used in the Federal
court.
Suits to test the constitutionality of
the Van Ness measure, the New Jer-
sey enforcement law, have been filed in
Jersey City by George c. thinner, SEN
fenced to ninety days in the Hudson
County penitentiary, on a charge of
selling liquor illegally, and by Raphael
Di Basse, 65 Bayard Street, Manhattan,
held in the Hudson County penitentiary
on a similar charge. A writ OF
habeas corpus was issued by Judge
James w. Mccarthy in Jersey City in
the Di Basse case. Neither defendant
was given jury trial, which they claim
as their right under the Constitution