The New York herald., 1922-01-26
RUBES' SEIZE STILLS
in SULLIVAN COUNTY.
lzzy Einstein's Crew Of Dry
Raiders, Posing as Farm
ers, Make Hauls. +.
MASH ALSO CAPTURED
Monticello and Bethel Will
Get No More HOOch From
Certain Milk Cans.
TWO SELLERS GO TO JAIL
Judge Says Bootleg Profits
Cause Scorn of Fines, Acts
Accordingly.
TWO SELLERS GO TO JAIL

i-S soy yOdi6 OidoSc VI Suhi' GA
county, the cut-ups of Monticello and
Bethel are rejecting soberly this
morning that prohibition isn't COM
pletely a myth and that two of their
favorite sources of supply have been
showed into the discard. Four strang-
ers bearing gifts rode into Sullivan
county tuesday morning.
They looked like farmers.
Not like the farmers who lean over
the gate of the COW pasture in tie
vaudeville sketch, but the new gen.
Grafton that meets the travelling sales
man on his own ground. How was
Sullivan county to know their names
were Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith;
that they had shiny shields on their
sugpenders, and that tieir companions
were Agents Fannelli and Stafford?
The four came back to the city yes
,crday and crowded against the radiators
at prohibition headquarters while they
told about riding miles and miles up
md down the Sullivan county hills,
begging their game on the edges of
chilly country cemeteries.
Anti-volstcad Directions.
Sullivan county's universal direction
sor the stranger in search of protection
against winter winds. they found, is,
'Keep on down this road until you come
10 the cemetery. Stop at the house right
on .his side
The agents rode out from Monticello,
the county seat, in a hired wagon, ten
miles TO Bethel And there in a barn
on the edge of Bethel's burying ground
they found one ten and one thirty gal
lon still. In the house adjoining the
barn they left summonses for Isaac Lss
and his wife Anna. While they were
;here, the agent said, wagon drove up
with a load of prunes and raisins. They
seized 500 gallons of mash.
Thirty miles mMonticeiio--theyw were
horse dealers now and Izzy can even tell
the name from the whirfietree-they
camc to another cemetery. And there
IN another barn on the edge of it they
also found n still. together with a
quantity OF liquor ready for shipment
in milk and kerosene cans. A sum-
mons was left for Harris Gordon.
According to the agents local option
put prohibition into effect in Monticello
and Bethel in 1917.
-Four hundred gallons of liquor were
poured into the Passaic River yesterday
within the view of passersby and pas
sengers on the Hudson tube trains. The
liquor was conlscated stuff taken before
prohibition and was destroyed to make
room for later confscations in La
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To Seize S25O,OOO Imports.
Sanford H. Cohen, Assistant United
States Attorney, brought suit in the
United States District Court yesterday
for the forfeiture and condemnation of
A.1S6 cases of brandy and whisky worth
s250.000. which are alleged to have been
imported by V. Cassazza and Bro, wine
dealers of sol West Broadway in viola
ton Of the customs and prohibition laws.
The liquors arrived here last October
and November from France and Scot
land. They we're seized and are being
held in a warehouse pending the outcome
OF the condemnation proceedings.
According to the complaint the firm
at one time had permit to import
wires. but this permit had expired at
the time the liquor was purchased
abroad.
Judge farldn II. liOWc Oh NeTIUont,
who is sitting in tie United States Dis
trict Court in Brooklyn. said In pass
Ing sentence to two months in Jail on
a saloonkeeper, that offenders against
the Volstead act would not get out OF
trouble through money In his court Tho
Judge said he realized that there was
plenty of money to be made in boot
logging, and that bootleggcrs were quite
willing to pay fines. The saloon man
sent to Jail was Edward Rauch, who
bought the saloon at 553 Wilson avenue.
Brooklyn, only eight months ago. His
bartender was sent to jail for one month.
Restaurant Manager Held.
George Erickson. manager Of Fe-
bacher's Restaurant. i'm los West Forty
eighth street. was arrested last night
by Detectives Burpeau and John Nc
I.aughln of Inspector Boan's staff
charged with violating the state prohi =
bltion enforcement laws. The detectives
also arrested Patrick Powers, "a waiter
and Benjamin IIorowitz. cashier. and
made similar charges against them
The restaurant was crowded when
the detectives went in last night. They
said that they orderod drinks and were
served with drinks. being identified by
Erickson because they had been in the
place on Thursday night with two
women known to the walters. The spe-
cific charge agains: Erickson Is that
he permitted liquor to be sold in the
restaurant Each o. the three men was
released in $500 bail for further exam
inaton to-day.