Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-28
seize MAN WITH
HOOCH SUNDAY
Home Brew for Christening
Party in Suit Case is Taken
by TottenviIIe PatroIman.
tBy Evening News correspondesa.l

LBy Evening News Correspondent
TOTTENNILLE, Feb. 2S-Hooch
runners and bootleggers trying to
get booze across Staten Island to
ether places especially those conf
ing i'm by ferry will have to change
their plans or else they will land
in the meshes of the law. Another
one coming in on the ferry yester-
day was nabbed by the police. He
had a suitcase filed with what he
called home made stuff. Patrolman
Crossen, of the 60th precinct sta
ton. at the ferry last night when
the 6:20r o'clock boat came in no
ticed Steve Onody. forty-five years
old, of sol Park avenue. West New
York. carrying a heaevy suitcase.
He held Steve up and when the suit
case was opened there were five
bottles filled with home made hooch
Steve tried to explain that he was
taking the goods home for a chris
tening to be held next Sunday.
He was taken to the station house
nd later locked up in the 65th pre-
Nnct station, West New Brighton,
when he was unable to get bail. He
will be arraigned before United
States Commissioner Rasquin in the
Federal court in Brooklyn today.
In the meantime the christen-
ing will be declared off for a while
without the hooch anyway. Steve
told the police hat he secured the
five bottles of hooch at the home of
a friend in Fords. N. j., and that he
was taking them home for the cele-
bration next Sunday.
Robert A. Graham. eighteen years
old. of IT'S Perry street. Manhattan.
arrested at the ferry at the foot of
Bentley street recently, by PATROL
man Madden of the Sixtieth pre-
cinct station, charged with a. viola
ton of the Volstead act In having
fifty gallons of alcohol In ten five
gallon cans in his possession was
again caught trying to smuggle a
cargo of whiskey on Staten Island.
He with a truckman who gives his
name as william Scheer, of 543
West lend street. Manhattan. were
arrested Friday afternoon at n
Bergen Point ferry at Port Rich
mond. The arrest was made by Pa
trolman Peter Gilshenan, of the
Sixty-ifth precinct station. West
New Brighton, and Detectives Fen
lon and Cullen of Inspector Formo-
sa's staff. The Staten Island police
had learned of the proposed ship
ment of whiskey to Staten Island
and were on the watch all day. When
the $3.50 o'clock boat drew into the
slip the two men were seen driving
"a REQ truck filed with cardboard
cartons. They were stopped and
Investigation revealed that the card
board surrounded nineteen cans,
each holding five gallons.
The prisoners were taken to the
West New Brighton station where
-aey were released in bail for their
bpearance in the federal court,
8rooklyn, Saturday. Sheer refused
to state at the police station where
he had gotten the whiskey or its
destination. He said, however. that
it was merely being transported
through Staten Island to another
point, which is believed to have been
Perth Amboy. Arraigned in federal
eourt both were held for a hearing.
Sheer's bail was fixed at $1,000 and
Graham's at $500. Graham when
caught at Tottenville on February
10 also refused to tell who the liquor
belonged to or its destination. When
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Barmore, February 16,
he was fined $3.50. The automobile
which he was driving at the time he
said belonged to Sheer, whose ad-
dress he gave as Jersey City.