The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-03-03
SEIZE TWO BOATS
IN BRONX WITH
S5OO,OOOL|QUOR
Vessels Loaded With Burlap
Sacks, Each Containing Six
Quarts of WhiSkey.
SEVEN ARE ARRESTED.
Prosecution Believes Main
Channels of Smuggling Syn
dicate Will Be Revealed.
SEVEN ARE ARRESTED.

70 The bootlcRRnrr' hour thLR morn
lnR--thn darkest hour which n before
tho dawn-PolIcemRn Reuth, strolllug
toward Weatchestcr Creek, al tT7th
street. was pRsHed by heavy Rotor
truck going vest. Five men bNsidcH
the driver we're perched on tho head
IN attitudes Euggesf!ng they were
Dcrtly on guard.
At the bridge over tho creek Heuth
met Policeman O'Callnhan from tho
other side. O'Callahan said he had
heard one truck como up the creek
and go west and hal seen another.
tho 6nc which Reuth met. The two
secuted cautlouHly down tho stream
until they saw two boats tied up to
the bank on which men were husiIy
working piling small sacks into a
third truck.
They backed away and each sought
his sergeant. All four secuted. 'Twus
strange time and spot for fleet OF
motor trucks to be in action in such n
place, all four decided. and they 80
informed Inspector Leibers over the
telephone. In a quarter of an hour
the inspector was at tho creek with
a platoon and had surrounded the
boat landing. Meantime the trucks
ceased their arrivals.
The inspectors detachment took
seven prisoners, Max Harris. OF Phila-
delphia; Fearon Macrin. OF No. 500
West 142d Street, Manhattan, and
the following from Brooklyn: Ched-
wick Melville, No. S45 AID Street;
Arthur Anderson, No. 42SS Seventh
Avenue; George Hanson, No. S3S 42d
Street; Arthur Baker, No. 6S02 Tenth
Avenue, and Charles Richardson. No.
$50 49th Street
The two boats, the Virginia and
the Shabca, @otor fishing schooners,
were loaded above and below the deck
with little burlap sacks each of which
six quart bottles with Cal
vert Whiskey labels. After a careful
survey Inspector Liebefs estimated
there were more than 10, 900 of the
little bags on the vessels, or $500 600
worth at the moderate bootleg retail
price of So bottle, on the two boats.
What the prisoners had to say was
OF no value as evidence and not
suited to the public prints.
Inspector Liebers sent for Dis
tict Attorney Glennon, who ordered
charges of violation of the MullaE
Gage act made against the prisoners
Tor having whiskey in their posses
sion and declared he believed the two
bluecoats had brought about the dis
closure of one of the main channels
cf the bootleggers' syndicate which
liquor from ocean steam
ships beyond the three e-mile limit, Hc
ordered the Federal authorities not-
fed.
After four hours the available spare
patrol wagons of the district had car
ried away only enough of the whiskey
10 the Westchester Station to make
a slight dent in each Of the deck loads
and the back room looked like a
liquor warehouse. Carefully selected
guards from the reserves were posted
in the station house. The reserves
not SO detailed paced nervously back
and forth between dormitory and the
front room and the street, muttering
vain things.
The seven prisoners were he'd in
$500 bail each by Magistrate Sim0son
in West Farms Court for examination
on Monday. Former Sheriff Donnelly
as their counsel,