New-York tribune., 1922-03-11
Captured With 3 Others i'm
Rum-filIcd House and
Is Accused of Woundinc
Detective in Shoulder
$4,000 Bank Book
Found by Raiders
Ship Officer Shoots and
Nils Man in Motor Boat
Smuggling Cognac

hanNbooks showing recent deposjts
aggregating $4,000 were found last
night IN tho house at IS Charlton
Street Greenwich Village, following
thrilling revolver battle during a
bootleg raid by city detectives. Bull
let's ralnod on stairway being
held against the police by two
young women and two men. De
tectlvo Vance c. Lavendar was shot
ana $ lightly wounded Another man
was shot in opposing the police, but
ne managed TO escanc over roofs.
Jerry Parols, eighteen years old, OF
4S Macdougal Street. was found later
In st. Nincent's Hospital suffering with
a bullet wound in his left breast, near
the heart. He was arrested.
Say Woman Opened Fire
The police charge that the Charlton
Street house was the headquarters for
Canadian ring Of liquor smugCers
and bootleggers and that the band is
ted by Mollic Pcrsolli. who leases the
apartment. The police say that Mollc
Persolli directed the battle against the
police. She was the first one to open
firo. The other woman taken in thc
place gave nor name as Marie Pamero.
Frank Celano, twenty-six years old,
Of i347 Forty seventh Street. Brook
Ign, was taken in the raid and is said
to have admitted to the police that
he was one Of several chaufcurs en-
ployed TO smuggle liquors in automo-
blles across the Canadian border.
Detective Lavendar, accompanied by
Detective Herman Guran, visited the
house shortly after o'clock on orders
from Inspector Underhil. The house
Is three e-story and basement affair,
reported to have been stored with
whisky almost from basement to garret.
The detectives rang the basement
bell and were admitted BY the Pamcro
woman. They glanced around and saw
many bottles of liquor The Pam6ro
woman asked the men their business
and when they told her they were
policemen and pushed her aside and
started to climb the stairs the Pamero
woman shouted:
"Shoot, Mollic, shoot"
Calls to Men to Shoot
The detectives looked up stairs and
saw the woman addressed as Mollie
run up, fanked by two men. Mollie
took the battle into her own hands
Immediately and opened fire on the
policemen, shouting to her men COM
panions to "Shoot, shoot"
The detectives were only second
returned the fire. Detective Lavendar
said later he was trying to avoid hit
ting The woman, but was determined
to shoot both men if necessary While
the bullets continued to rain about him
he saw one man aim directly at him
and he beat the man to the shot The
fellow fell, picked himself up and Aed.
Detective Lavendar said that Molle
then took deliberate ann at him and
fred. The bullet struck him in the lett
shoulder.
The firing continued as the detectives
forced their way upstairs. The alleged
in a room, the door of which they
locked. A mans voice shouted:
"We've got plenty of guns and bullets
in here. Come or ahead and get u.s.
Lavendar guarded the door of the
room and Guran ran to the street and
called the reserves. Rcinforcements
arrived and the police succeeded in ar
resting the two women and the man
Celano.
A search of tho house later revealed
more than 1000 bottles of choice liquor
sccreted about the place The stock
was easily worth $4,000, it is said. The
bottles bore the labels Of we'll known
Scotch and Canadian brancs.
On the top floor Of the house the
police found a rectifying plant and
bundles of Canadian revenue stamps
and labels. The stamps bore either the
genuine or forged imprint of the Cana
dian Liquor Commission.
On examination later the bullet
which grazed Lavcndar's shoulder was
found to have passed through his over
coat, undercoat and his suspcnder
strap where it passed over the shoul-
der.
The Perselli woman is held by the
police on charges of felonious assault
possessing firearms and possessing
and manufacturing whisky. The Pamero
woman is accused of felonious assault
by reason of her signalling Mollie Per-
selli to shoot. She is also charged
with possessing and manufacturing
whisky. Similar charges are made
against the two men, although the man
found in the hospital had not beer
positively identified as connected with
the Charlton Street case up to q late
hour.
Parrela denied all knowledge Of the
(Coufjnued nm nere sixl