New Britain herald., 1921-09-23
Chief OF Detectives Calls
Charges Ridiculous And
Says He Will Welcome
Any Probe Into His
Conduct AS Member OF
Detective Force

When questioned today or
charges being made or infer
certain other papers, chargi
geant A. j. Richardson, CHI
detective force, with being
with a band of rum runne
cused officially announced
charges are ridiculous.
$4,000 in One y
Among other things th
is made that Richardson
600 in one year. He adf
this money, but says he
stocks and in the purch,
of the Puritan Lunch re
represented in this deaf
Wallace. The lunch room
after nine months and a
of money realized. Anotl
whose name has been linked
accusations, Sergeant Richards,
is running a farm in Newingt(
that he understands he and
friends are planning to manufac
a patent medicine, the nature
which he has not been advised.
May Demand Retractions.
In discussing the charges yesterday,
the official under fire intimated that
there ought to be some way of OBJ
tanning redress. The statement that
They may have to prove these
things" also was made by Jake Win
kle, whose name is prominently con-
nected with Richardson's, as an al
legged partner in the bootlegging bus
mess. 2
In a statement this morning, Ser
geant Richardson was asked the fol-
lowing questions: &
"Do you know anything about rum
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was asked. .-....- 8
5ss But Little Coming in.
IF anything is being brought into
town, it is being brought in in small
quantities. I think there is very little
coming in
What is the nature of the patent
medicine your son is planning to
make at his Newington homer"
"I do not know. In fact, I don't
even know if it has materialized.
Neither do I know at all who is in
terested."
''Who is the chemist?"
IT do not know if there is chem
ist."
Denies Aiding Booze Men.
"Is it true that you have tipped off
liquor men when a raid was going
to be made either by a series Of tel
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otherwise?"
Its ridiculous. Our records here
ought to be enough to show what's
being done.'
'Is it true that you received $3.50
to keep mum about a load of liquor
going into Curry's saloon on Main
street," ..
IT never had any personal knowl-
edge of booze going into Curry's sa-
loon, although Curry or his bar
tender have been convicted two or
three times on liquor charges
What is your connection with Jake
Wrinkle and is it true that you and
Jake are in the booze running busi-
ness together?"
Regarding Jake Winl<le.
"Jake Wrinkle has not been any
more a friend of mine than he has
to anyone else in town. Jake is the
kind of a man who would do a kind
ness for anybody and he always has
been a friend of the police force. He
was one of the first to have an auto
mobile in New Britain and if an Off
GER wanted to go to Meriden or New
Haven Or any other place on busi-
ness, Jake was always ready with his
car. Long before prohibition times
he was a friend of the police de-
partment. (This statement was cor
roborated by Chief of Police Raw
ings, who was present during part of
the interN ew, as was Prosecuting At
torney Greenberg).
do you have any knowledge OF
Jake Winkle being in the rum busi-
ness?
II have never been in Jake Wrinkles
,ar to my knowledge when he had
any rum in it,
do you have any knowledge Of
lake ever doing any rum running
ousiness?''
mot to the official knowledge of
he police department" (This state
nent also Chief Rawlings agreed to-
What do you think of the charges
being made by some papers that you
Ind Jake are in the rum running musi-
hess together?'
Outrageous, He Says.
1T is the most ridiculous thing I
,ver heard brought up against any,
,ody. I think it's outrageous. Every
,ody knows my boys and nobody can
'ay they were ever mixed up in any,
hing like this. Why, other police
nen have automobiles and own their
,wn houses, why don't they pick on
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