The New York herald., 1922-05-04
Pioneer Ship of Prohibition
Navy. Well Armed and
Manned, Sails.
1T HAS SECRET ORDERS
Circuit Court Rules Seized
Shipment Must Be Returned
to Druggist.

Marshall Dale Of $40 West Seventy.
sixth street was arrested at Broadway
and Forty-fifth street last night ~
Detectives Roddy and DAILY of In.
spector Coughlans staff and locked uu
at Headquarters charged with being
one of the four men who swindled
Frank j. Stapleton. a former saloon
keeper of Waterbury, Conn. out OF
+ $4,000 in cash and warehouse re.
ceipts calling for twenty-five barrels
of whisky valued at $4,000 Another
alleged member Of the gang, Robert
White, was arrested in April at New
Haven.
Stapleton, who was with the detec-
tives when Dale was arrested. Said
White came to his place last February
and asked him If he did not still have
some Of his stock. Stapleton replied
that he had twenty-five barrels of
whisky in Kentucky warehouse.
White, according to the story, offered
to Introduce Stapleton to some Gov
getting his whisky from the ware
house and help him dispose of it tc
druggists and wholesale drug COM
panies, legitimately, so there would be
no suspicion of bootlegging.
The saloon men and White were to
New Haven, where Stapleton was intro
duced to Dale and two others. After
considerable negotiations the Govern
ment officials" offered to help Stapleton
get his whisky for $4,000. Stapleton
agreed to this, and in evidence Of good
faith deposited that amount in New
York bank. IN a joint account with one
-~s''~s gang of alleged swindlers. The
y was not to be paid by Stapleton
'onT II the whisky had been brought up
~ lr Kentucky and delivered to him in
:" terbury.
Cashed 100000 In Checks.
liw,wo or three days later. Stapleton
tuNthe police. one of the gang came tc
lo1 IN aud said he had 200 cases OF whis-
II and. fifty barrels in a warehouse
~ t that since ne was a Government Of
o9 cial it would not look right for him
n 0 get 1t out and sell it. Would Staple
~ nu help? Stapleton said he would and
cashed two checks. o..c INr $4,000 and
another for $4,000. giving the gang
100000 In cash. This money was to be
ised In some way or other III connection
\ nth the marketing of the booze.
fapleton said that as soon as he had
shed the checks the swindlers left
I'D he never saw them again. But a
few days later he found the checks he
had cashed for them were not good, and
he found also that one of them had
gone to New York, forged Stapleton' s
signature and drawn out the money de-
posted in a joint account. Also they
took with them the warehouse certifi-
Gates for Stapletons twenty-five barrels
of whiskey. stored in Kentucky. for
which the saloonkeeper said he paid
500 barrel some years ago. Staplcton
telegraphed to Kentucky with the hope
Of saving the liquor.
Dry Navy starts Out.
The first vessel to be placed exclu-
sively in che anti-rum running service in
this district sailed from the Battery
under sealed orders yesterday in COM
mand of Capt. George Tawes and
manned by a crack gunnery crew OF
fourteen men from the United States
Navy.
She is the converted submarine chaser
Hahn, making eighteen knots an hour.
On her forward deck is one pounder
ready for action.
Much secrecy was thrown about the
vessels destination. Thomas w. whitte
Surveyor OF the Port, was aboard. Each
member OF the crew was supplied with
revolver and 200 pounds of ammuni-
ton had been slowed away.
Although the Prohibition Navy is ac-
trr lly under the jurisdiction of the Fed
4 prohibition forces the management
md operation of the feet will rest with
the customs service. Inspector Frank
Throp will be I'm direct charge of the
operations of the Hahn.
In little shanty at the end of the
pier at the Barge Office the prohibition
forces have set up new. naval Office
to be known as their marine division.
Judge julius NJ. Mayer OF the United
States Circuit Court yesterday upheli /
the order of Judge Edwin l.. Garvin OF
the District Court In Brooklyn directing
the return of 996 cases of whisky
valued at about 100000. to Edward j.
Hart, wholesale druggist of 2316 Eighty
sixth street, Bath Beach.
The whisky was seized by prohibition
agents last October in Wallabout Basin
where. according to the agents. 1t had
arrived from Kentucky, en- route ia
Hart's warehouse. Although the ship
ment was accompanied by the proper
permits the Federal agents took the
stand that the druggists basic permit
TO deal =. H-savr had been fraudsntly
obtained.
Harry J. Walsh. Assistant United
States Attorney. said further appeal
90 the United States Supreme Couri
probably would not be taken.
There were about seventy-hve diners
IN the Cafe Lyons. 3s West Thirty-thiro
street. last night when three prohibition
agents confscated five cases Of liquors
They left summonses for Charles A.
Lyons OF 1106 Simpson street. the Bonx
John Steger OF SAB West 1921 street
Edwin Eisert of 40i West 134th street
and Herman Kapkman of 226 East
Eighty-third street.
HOME BREWING FALLS OFF.