The New York herald., 1921-05-16
STATE POLICE GRAB
PORT JERVIS LIQUOR
Raid Eleven Drinking Places
and Get Cider, Applejack,
Whiskey and Cordials.
CITIZENRY DISCOURAGED
District Attorney and Staff,
Sheriff. Detectives and
Police Join Roundup.

| Special Despatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
PORT JERvIs, N. Y, May 15.-The au-
| thorities decided that this town and
| it's immediate environs had so little
respect for the Eighteenth Amend
| ment that something radical would
have to be done. Therefore, beginning
last night and lasting well into this
beheld eleven of its most popular
drinking depots raided and rendered
dry
Two hundred gallons of a furious
liquid labelled whiskey, eight or ten
barrels of very pale home brew, half a
dozen barrels of a powerful admixture
said to be equal parts of molasses, rum
and hard cider; about ten gallons of
applejack and several hundred bottles
and Jugs of unclassified but potent
liquids were lugged out of cellars and
lofts and into Police Headquarters.
And meanwhile a great throng of dis
couraged citizens followed the raiders
around.
But it took District Attorney Wilson
and all his staff, Sheriff Leonard and
all his deputies, County Detective
Hutchins and his entire platoon, Chief
Of Police Morehead and his whole
force, and sixteen ablebodied members
Of Troop X. State police, to do It.
Only once was anything approximate
ing resistance encountered. And on ons
other occasion-and only one-did the
victims OF the raids provide any excite
ment. When the State police, com
manded by Lieut.. Broadfeld, went out
| to Sparrowbush, three or four miles out
side the town proper, they first entered
the establishment Of Frank Dove, where
| rumor had II a still was in operation.
| They found the still, and Dove produced
| a Government license therefor. The
license privileged Dove to distill winter
green for commercial purposes. and
Dove and the lieutenant differed about
the most recent usages to which the still
| has been put. II was a big affair.
bricked in, and held tank four feet In
| diameter.
| Got jug and Punch In Eye.
| While the lieutenant and Dove de-
| bated Sergeant Roberts, Corporal Hop
| kins and a half dozen troopers nl8de
| n survey of the place. Before the argu-
ment was over the troopers had dug up
barrel of hard cider, container OF
home brew and several jugs OF apple
whislSey. Then there was jug OF some-
thing else. 1t had a label bearing the
| single word Private" and when Troop
er Rooney appeared with 1t In his arms
Dove lunged. Rooney and the jug
parted. The latter broke and It's con-
tents were lost. But Rooney came back
with his fist to Doves eye. and Dove
| had the honor of being the first and only
casualty of the evening.
Lieut. Broadfield moved his men on
up the State road TO Balmers road
house. Somebody must have sent out a
warning, for of the usual number OF
motor cars alleged to make rendezvous
! OF Balmer's only two were in sight. The
natives say that Balmer's was gay
and festive albeit most respectable place
before the drought. But early this
morning the erstwhile mlrthfu cafe was
all but unconscious. over In corner
sat two men and three women. There
wasn't even light near them They
were nicely dressed folks and looked like
entirely likeable. worth while citizens
AS the troopers entered one of the men
In the party leaped to his feet
"Pinched, by gosh II he grunted.
Whereupon one Of the women, with
great presence OF mind, uttered a pierre
ing scream. leaped 20 her feet. threw her
glass into the air, contents included and
tumbled over backward in faint. A.
the glass crashed TO the floor the other
woman walled
Good Lord. Clara, A dollar and
half throw, too"
Gordon Gin Bottle Found.
! They found thlrty-two bottles Of nome
brew and bottle Of Gordon gin IN
cabinet near by, and Balmer. ~ were
the other proprictors, was arrested.
The other places raided we're scat
Continued on Fourth rage.