New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Inspector Raids
Alone and Gets
Two of His Men
Donal,ue Lays Liquor Charge
Against Policeman Who
Tried to Arrest Detective
Involved i'm Cafe Shooting
lzzy Einstein Has Reverse
Court Frees Dealer He
Trapped by Initiating Yid-
dish; He's Sent TO Saratoga

Charges We're preferred yesterday
the West Forty-seventh Street police
station. who tried to arrest detective
of Acting Inspector Donahue's staff
early Tuesday morning after the man
ager of Billy Gallagher's place, on
Seventh Avenue, had been shot.
Acting Inspector Donahue preferred
the charges against Hughes, taking
similar action against Patrolnan Mi
chael j. O'Toole. 1t is alleged that
they were eff post and failed to take
evidence that the prohibition enforce
ment act was being violated.
The charges grew out of an ind-
viduai raid which Acting Inspector
Donahue made before dawn yesterday at
the Bendig Hotel, 120 West Forty
seventh Street. He arrested Christian
ID. Hansen, clerk of the hotel for al
legged violation of the Mullan-Gage law.
Hansen was held for examination in
West Side police court
Found Pair With Liquor, He Says
Donahue said he found the two pa
trolmeu in the hotel, and chat there
was bottle of whisky on n su3Ie with
q glass beside i. containing the re-
mains of drink.
Such raids by Captain Donahue are
not ct all unusual. He prows through
his precinct at all hours of the night,
it is said informing himself as to con-
IifiODc and maxine rrafo
ing charges against policemen when
the situation seems to warrant such ac-
ton. 1t is said that when he starts
r:on one of his secret expeditions he
Chambers down the fire escape of the
olice station, SO that those on duty
in the Office cannot sound Inc alarm to
policemen on Iost.
Icy Einstein, famous for his dis
.yGises and his unremitting vigilance in
,ac enforcement of prob bition, suf-
fered the humiliation yesterday of see
ilg one of ~his cases thrown out of the
Criminal Branch of the United States
District Court 1t was a minor case,
however, IN which Icy had used prac-
tically no disguise at all.
He had just walked into Rabbi
Felschins liquor store, on the East
Side. and. initiating the Yiddish dialect,
had asked for the sacramento wine
-N&ODt ttJlO"lb lldu OlucItQ AS SUM
rs he got the wine Ivy arrested Harry
Da;man, Felschin's clerk. Jesse Bur
deau, clerk of the court, testified yes
to-day, however, that Ivy had confided
TO him that he knew Rabbi Horowitz
had ordered the wine by telephone, and
the arrest of Dalman was so easy in
C nsequencc as to offer practically no
sport whatever.
Ivy Sent to Saratoga
Dalmans counsel asserted that his
client had been tricked, and obviously
had no intention of violating the law.
Judge Holmes was of the same opinion
and ordered the charge dismissed, Ivy
and his fellow enforcement agents,
Moe Smith and Herman Wiltenberg,
have been transferred to Saratoga
County for the racing season.
Gustave Smith, saloonkeepcr of
West Orange. n j.. who was the first
person to be tried in Essex County
ment act Was acquitted yesterday by
Judge Stickcl in Common Pleas Court,
Newark.
Mrs Julia Mironcheck filed suit in
the Supreme Court yesterday against
her husband, Henry, demanding g sep
aration because Henry's home brew
inspires him to beat her.
After Fatroiman benjamin had sam
FLED in Washington Heights police
court the contents Of one of two bot
ties he found in the pockets of James
Smith, q negro, James was held for the
grand jury. charged with possessing
liquor Illegally. He said friend has
given him the bottles and he didn'
know what was in them. Benjamin re
ported it was whisky.
Local Coast Guard officers received
a report Yesterday that mysteriou.
vessel which might be rum runner
had been sighted in the vicinity OF
Cape Hatteras by the steamship LAX,
Airline
Three Motor Boats Seized
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Aug. IL
The seizure Of three motorboats an,
the announcement by Frederick Pearse
United States attorney, at Newark
that six prominent men were to b
arrested as leaders of the rum Snug
Cling ring, were the outstanding de