New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-13
Of Home
MOOnsli1lers Is
Found Guilty
Tip From Tenant Leads 10
Raid of Janitor's Rooms,
Where Still and Tub
of Mash Are Discovered
Convicted by Second Jury
Initial Seconds ffensc Wet
Case Is Held Up When
New Venire Is Demanded

The FIRST home distillery case AND
the frst second-offense liquor violation
case occupied the attention of Assist.
ant District Attorney William P. Ryan
and Justice Henry v. Bcrst, in extraor.
binary term, criminal branch of the
Supreme Court yesterday. The first
home distillery case resulted in con-
viction and the first second offense
case went over until next week.
Charles Hartmann, an apartment
house janitor at 52s West 11lth Street,
is the first home distiller to feel the
weight of the law. Two juries were
necessary to try the case. The first
disagreed after being sent back twice
with additional instructions. Ycster-
day The second jury was called.
Tipped OFF by Resident
Detective Thomas Carlin. of Chief
Inspector Lahey's staff, said the po-
lice received q letter from resident
In the building where Hartmann was
visited the place and his nostrils were
greeted with the sour odor of cooking
mash.
The detectives knocked on the door
of Haftmann's basement rooms. wit
nesses testified and CHEEKY voice
said: "Come in"
The detectives made search, al
though they had no warrant They
testified they found still, i've gallons
OF raw whisky, twenty-four bottles of
freshly brewed beer and two tubs of
mash. Hartmann denied he was manu-
featuring for the trade and said he
had ideas of using the five gallons of
whisky and beer for his own comfort.
An attorney for Hartmann argued
that the arrest was illegal, as Haft-
mann's home was searched and in
vaded without q warrant. The court
instructed the jury that the arrest was
legal as Hartmann had invited the de-
tectives to enter. Hartmann will be
sentenced next Monday.
Assistant District Attorney Ryan
moved for immediate trial in the sec
ond cffense case against Edward Mona
han and Thomas Keanan, convicted
Saturday of selling liqnor over the
46-foot bar in a saloon at 118 Seventh
Avenue. Keanan was fined 5000 and
Monahan, because of an enviable war
record, was fined only 500.
Detectives James Bowden and
Thomas Kelly, of Chief Inspector
Lahey's staff, who made the first arrest
April 10, brought a second case against
the two bartenders en- May u.
Postponement Granted
When Assistant District Attorney
Ryan moved for the immediate trial an
attorney for the two men asked that
the case go over until next week. He
said jury from the same venire as
that which convicted the men on the
first ofIense might be prejudicial. Mr.,
Ryan consented to postponement
1t developed in Magistrate Silber-
mann's court on Washington Heights
yesterday that Detective John Carl, of
the 5th Inspection District. is pains
tuking in his quest for liquor evidence.
In the case of Peter Devln, waiter
in a saloon at 213S Amsterdam Avenue,
charged with violation CT the Mullan-
Cage law, Carl testified:
when I entered the place Devlin
took bottle, threw it in a drawer and
locked the drawer. / went to drug
store and returned with q rubber tube,
screwdriver and drill. drilled a
hole in the drawer and through the
cork of the bottle and inserted the
tube and here is the evidence"
Wonderful" said tho court.
Devlin asked for an adjournment,
which was granted,