The New York herald., 1922-08-26
SHOOED FROM court
AFTER LIQUOR RAID
Quartet Go Free Due to
Technical Error in
Warrants.
$4,000 RUM SEIZURE
Haul Made From Billy the
Oysterman, Who Kept No
Liquor Before Dry Law.
DAY HAS A NEW CARD
Wants Restaurants to Post It
Warning Patrons Not
to Drink.
DAY HAS A NEW CARD


any Eighteenth Amendment IL you
wanted glass of beer with your food
in Billy the Oysterman's place, 13 East
Twentieth street, the waiter bawled:
zone light" or "one dark!" and the
swarthy boy who stood at the door
would duck into a saloon next door
(Madden's or Murphy's or something
like that) and get the desired bey-
erage.
Billy the Oysterman didn't sell the
stun But yesterday eight prohibition
enforcement agents descended upon
Billy's and dragged therefrom twenty
i've cases Of assorted liquors and a
large quantity of beer. At bootlegger
prices the stuff might have fetched
$4,000, they say In the interested
crowd that assembled to watch it being
loaded into moving van there were
men who have lunched at Billy's for
twenty years.
NOW what do you think of that?"
.mey said. In the old days there
wasn't a drop of the stuff in Billy's
who would have believed this?"
a summons was served on Otto Seidt
waiter, who is alleged to have sold
WHISKY TO man at private bar back
OF the restaurant. Billy Ockendon, the
proprietor. got a summons, too.
The stuff taken from Billy's is to be
stored in one of the two concentration
storage places to be selected soon by
the Government for repositories for all
hard liquor bonded in the Port of New
~ Tt,-t
age places will be has not been deter
mined. but Ralph A. Day said yesterday
that he had been in conference on the
subject with Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Clifford, L. c. Yellowley and
John ID. Appleby. There will be one
storage place for the customs people
and one for the Internal Revenue di-
vision. At present the bonded liquor in
the port district is scattered throughout
seventy-eight warehouses.
Four Go Free ON Technically.
Inspector Bolan's booze cruiser pla-
toon did not have so pleasant a day as
the Government men. Four men they
caused to be arraigned before Magis-
trate Devine In the West Side Court
were dismissed because there was some
error In the warrants. The quartet
had been the victims in three raids
made by Bolan's men. The places Wis
tied were the Tent Fifty-second street
anG Seventh avenue; Ted Lewis's Club
and Paradise, which once was Reisen-
weber's. The arrested ones were John J
German a private detective arrested at
the latter place in mistake for the man
ager; Frank Carlasco. manager OF the
Ted Lewis Club: Joseph Reeves. head
waiter in the Tent and a man who de-
scribed himself as Francis Langdon, "A
East Thirty-fourth street.
The police say they encountered Lang
don in the Tent and that he insisted
upon following them around brandish-
ing flask of something or other and
drinking therefrom frequent toasts to
Andrew volstead. 1t became nuisance
and the police decided to arrest Lang
don for interference. But there was
something wrong with the warrants and
Magistrate Levine shooed them all out
of court.
Having read Of the success of the
various DISCUSSES of Izzy Einstein and
Moe Smith. Detectives O'Brlen and
Hughes put on a street car conductors
uniforms yesterday and, in the rear
room of cafe at so South street.
Jamaica. asked the proprietor. Otto
Colaci. for half pint of whisky.
They say that Otto produced half
They paid him and then arrested him.
But they didn't drink any of 1t. Hughes
suggested that they had better take
sip and be sure IL was booze but
OBrien wouldn't have It,
However, " said O'Brien. IF you in
sist wait until call for the ambulance
so as TO waste no time getting you to
the Morgue."
They sent the stuff to a chemists and
Colaci was held in $500 in the Jamaica
Court.
Mr.. Day Has New Sign Now.
Prohibition Director Day has evolved
a new sign Of warning to be tackled up
In all cafes. restaurants. cabarets and
hotels He hopes to have them on dis
play in a day or so. They read:
WARNING NOTICE.
The National Prohibition Act prohi-
bits any one SELLING, FURNISHING
POSSESSING or CARRYING INTOxI-
eating LIQUORS or aiding or abet-
ting the same without a proper Federal
permit and a violation is punishable by
fine or Imprisonment or both. This
place will not violate the law and will
not countenance the violation thereof
by its patrons.
Mr.. Day and Mr. Yeilowley start
upon a tour of the New York-Canada
border to-day
Prohibition Director Day said last
night, with reference 10 the raid on the
Paradise Roof, formerly Reisenweber's.
that he had referred the matter to John
Holley Clark, Jr.. chief United States
Assistant District Attorney, in charge
of the civil division. TO ascertain whether
the place could be closed. Mr.. Day said
this action was taken In view of an In
junction obtained some time ago against
the restaurant.
A raid by Ten Federal agents upon
the Metamora Cabaret, formerly the
Pre- -Catalln, at 10 West Thirty-ninth
street, during which the agents shifted
glass on the tables OF the patrons and
searched for two hours for liquor. re-
suited last midnight In the agents finding
one pint of alleged gin and one pint
Of alleged whisky Summonses were
left for James Broderick. the manager
william Cook and William Barnes said
to be the proprietors, and John Gil
martin waiter. The patrons scornfully
watched the agents make their search.
still in operation was found last
night IN the kitchen of August Jandricke
OF 155 McKlbpin street, Brooklyn. Jan.
dricke. who Is IS years old, was dis
tilling what the detectives said was
whisky. He was arrested and taken TO |
the police station with his still ana three |
jugs of liquor.