New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-08
U.S.DryRaiders
Seize $50 Cases
OF Rum at Pier
SIS, 600 Kentucky Liquor
Shipment Intercepted and
Guards Watch House
Where Suspect Is Hiding
HAYNES Spends Day Here
IS Police ON Trial Charged
With Slack Enforcement
of the Mullan-Cage Law

The Federal raiders who set out
raesday to dry up New York seized
10 cases of bonded liquor on a pier
yesterday. The liquor came from Ken
tacky warehouse, according to e. c.
Yellowly. assistant prohibition d.
rector, and last night Mr.. Yellowly
/ had some of his agents standing guard
aver q house which he suspected of
ebeltering man he intends to have
srrested as soon as he can get a
limited States marshal to do so.
The value of the liquor seized yes
.srday was said to be, at bootleg prices,
shout $4,000. Mr.. Yellowly said that
The man he had under surveillance was
Jar from being the only one he ex-
nected to arrest. but he declined to
make any estimate of the number of
prisoners he hoped to make. He had
information, he said, upon which to
make many more raids.
Roy A Haynes, Commissioner of
Prohibition, spent the day in the city
comforting with the heads of the state
enforcement bureau and with friends"
Thirty-fve Police Put on Trial
Twenty-Five policemen and ten police
sergeants were placed on trial at Head
quarters for failure to make good in
efecting Mulan-Gage law arrests on
their posts. Decision in all these
cases was reserved. Commissioner
HAYNES departed for Columbus, Ohio,
last night, but will return.
Special enforcement agents from
Washington last night continued to
watch all steamship piers, with the
idea of selling shipments of liquor
withdrawn from Maryland and Ken
lucky warehouses on alleged fraudu
lent and forged permits and consigned
to New York addresses.
Assistant Director Yellowly encoun-
tered an obstacle in his raiding last
night, when he was unable to find
United States marshal to serve a war
rant in New Jersey, where it was said
thst certain employee of an unnamed
prohibition enforcement Office is ac-
cused of aiding and abetting con-
spirators against the Volstead, Gus
toms, navigation and other laws.
State Director Harold A. Hart had
admitted during the afternoon that sus-
pcicn in alleged fraudulent liquor
cases might attach to field agents in
the employ of enforcement bureaus,
but net to any other employees. He
said the theft of entire blocks or
tablets Of Federal permits was an "out-
side job" and charged this theft had
~i,-t,~ H., Il Il
in Philadelphia, who gained entrance
to HE 'iices on pretense of desiring to
coi-scs mistake in his signature to
legal permit blank.
Big Business Men Aiding
That men high in the commercial
world in New York had given informa-
ton TO the Federal enforcement de-
partment at Washington developed
yesterday, and that the raids hers
might assume proportions heretofore
unknown was learned, over the denial
Of Commissioner Haynes, who said that
if he had such information he would
be the last man in the world to re-
lease it for publication.
Newspaper men were permitted to see
Commissioner Haynes. He issued
blanket statement to the press Among
the men called into conference with
the Commissioner, however, was one
newspaper man, Hugh Fullerton, a
baseball writer He was located by
Assistant Director Yellowley and called
to Headquarters, where he talked with
the Commissioner for some time. He
said later that he was an old friend Of
Mr.. Haynes, and that they had been
talking over old times.
The present intensive effort by all
the government departments OF en-
forcement is the outgrowth of revela-
.ions made some weeks ago by the
late United States District Attorney Lie
Roy Ross, of Brooklyn, and exclusive
ly printed in The Tribune. At the
time Mr.. Ross, after calling attention to
gigantic smuggling operations from the
Bahamas, by rum-running fleet, said
that the combined efforts of all land
and sea forces of the government would