The New York herald., 1921-10-28
YONKERS WRUNGDRY
BY 34RAIDS ATONCE
so Bartenders and Owners
Seized i'm Federal Drive
by 102 Agents:
EINSTEIN IN COMMAND
Plans Laid So Quietly as to
Surprise City's Police
by Suddenness.
NEAR ANDERsON's HOME
Three Truckloads Of Evidence
Taken-$75, ZOO Worth Is
Found in Brooklyn.
NEAR ANDERsON's HOME

As the city's clock tolled noon yes
terday 1O1 Federal prohibition en-
forcement agents, led by General"
Izzy Einstein, concentrated in Getty
square, Yonkers. A few minutes later
by well planned squad movement
raids were made on thirty four saloons
and cafes. resulting in the arrest of
more than thirty surprised proprie-
tors and bartenders and the seizure
of three truckloads of evidence.
About month ago T.. c. Yellowley,
acting Prohibition Director. received
complaints that Yonkers was wide
open," in violation Of Federal and
State prohibition laws. Women said
their husbands were getting all the
"hooch" they could consume and men
complained that women were drinking
too much. Yonkers is the home Of
William III. Anderson. State superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
and the complainants thought it was
not the place for such goings on.
EIhsteln ADVANCE Agent
Einstein, versatile rum hunter, was
assigned to Yonkers for ten days With
the use of a multitude OF disguises he
says that he bought drinks In the thirty
tour places raided yesterday. Prices
ranged. he alleged. from 80 cents to so
cents. The dry agents then prepared for
one OF the most extensive prohibition
raids in this vicinity after the United
States Commissioner. Mr.. Hitchcock,
issued search warrants for the places
visited by Einstein.
Yellowley had the 102 agents report at
prohibition headquarters at 10 O'Clock
IN the morning. II. Q. Merritt of North
Carolina, who had been in charge of
moonshine hunters there until he arrived
mere Wednesday as an assistant to yell
lowley, accompanied the raiders to Yonk-
ers.
At noon the agents were divided into
squads OF three in Getty square and
received the search warrants Mr.. Merritt
established himself in front of Police
Headquarters in Wells avenue, where.
within fifteen minutes, the agents began
to- arrive with their prisoners.
Police Not In on Secret.
So well planned were the raids that
the local police did not know what was
going on until their fellow townsmen
We're arraigned before them. The news
OF the raids spread rapidly and in a
Few minutes after the first prisoner had
been taken several men appeared pre-
pared to give bail Lieut.. Ennis A.
Cooper. Sergeant Thomas T.. Morrissey
and Detective Sergeant George A. Ford.
n
writing up the data of the arrests on the
blotter and arranging for the bail bonds
of the prisoners.
In most OF the places raided it is
charged that liquor was sold openly
over the bars. One of the first 10 he
Tisited by the raiding squads was
Wilkie's cafe. within block of police
headquarters. Einstein led the raid on
the saloon of Phillip Human, a Yonkers
politician. at "a Palisade avenue. A
quart OF whiskey and ten cases of
Canadian ale were found. Just as
James McCauley. the bartender. had
been placed under arrest, in walked
Human. the proprietor, who also was
taken into custody. He said he did not
know anything about the whiskey. and
Canadian ale.
Road Houses Unmolested.
Another place visited was the saloon
of August b. Bennel, 60 Dock street in
the rear Of Police Headquarters Ben
nek and his bartender were arrested.
| Roadhouses and cafes on the outskirts
OF Yonkers which specialize in the trade
of motorists were not molested.
| All of the men under arrest were re-
leased In $500 bail each with instructions
to appear for pleading before Commits
/ v,
was no resistance on the part of the
! prisoners.
About a year ago Federal agents made
raids on thlrty-two saloons in Yonlxers
and made twenty-seven arrests A large
quantity of liquor was conhscated then,
and all the Offenders were let off with
fines ranging from $50 to $780, Word
was received from Yonkers at a late
hour last night that the city was slightly
more dry than 1t has been at any time
since prohibition.
088 Cases Seized I'm Brooklyn.
william +. KissiclS, in charge OF tn.
Brooklyn enforcement office. seized 900
cases OF whiskey on Wednesday nigh,
at tho Wallabout Basin terminal of the
New York Central Railroad in Brooklyn
The liquor, which has a bootleg value
OF about $4,000, was consigned to E. j.
Hart, wholesale druggist. at 2816
Elghty-sixth street, Brooklyn, who was
to pay s35. 900 for the consignment ac-
cording 10 the agents.
| Hart has been ordered to appear in
the Federal Court to show cause why
his liquor permit should not be can
celled. Five hundred cases of the
whiskey were shipped by the Murphy
Barber Distillery in Claremont, KY, and
the remainder was from the Rugby Dis
tillery in Louisville.
shannon and Donnelly. agents Of YELL
lowley's staff, seized twcnty-four barrels
OF alcohol found In warehouse at 527
Hudson street. The alcohol. 1t was said
was owned by Edward Petrosellemo OF
1904 Jerome avenue, Tho Bronx, former