New-York tribune., 1922-03-16
Raiders Seize
Brewery Plant
Worth Million
|harse Full Strength Beer
+ Distributed From Cen
trsl Company Premises
in Unlabeled Bottles
FIRST Act of Kind in State
CONAN Arrested Accused
of Having and Dealing
in False Liquor Tags

p,ohibition enforcement agents
.,sd an entire brewery, valued at ST.
/ |nnoOo, yesterday, on the charge that
ii strength beer was being sold from
!. plant in unlabeled bottles.
7se rlant is that of the Central
sswery, sos to $50 East Sixty eighth
s-sst This is the first seizure of
,.uerv in New FORK State. Accord
:, to the complaint on which the
..s,cb warrant was issued the company
gs.ributed AZ per cent bottled beer
:, sugsr barrels. The plant was put
nnder seal and libel proceedings will
|ss instituted
officers Deny Knowing of Sales
The company, which has been en-
ased for more than ten years in the
.rving business, is composed of Ber-
ard T. Kearns, president; Hy Hester
,.rr. vice president; Peter Seery, sec
..tsry. and Charles W. Knoche, treas
,sr. It is understood that their de-
..nss will be that if certain employees
q, the company were distributing real
..sr its officers were without knowl-
.dee of u. The manufacture of near
kssr recessitates the brewing Of real
seer. the alcoholic content of which is
decreased later to the legal percent
The agents engaged in the raid were
Peter Reager, Finelli, Saver, Kerrigan
snd others. They left United States
District Court summonses for the Off
GERS of the corporation. Saber re-
ported that he found wagonload of
barrels containing unlabeled bottled
beer leaving the place. All the beer in
the place was seized and sent to the
Enickerbocker Warehouse
All the employees of the Black Cat
Restaurant, 557 West Broadway, one
Il the best known of the Greenwich
Village resorts, were arraigned before
ligstrate Nolan in Essex Market
aart yesterday. The defendants
;hsrged with violating the Mullan.
Gsge law, are Albert Fossoti, Ii Han.
| tfk street, the manager; John Driano
IS Sullivan Street. the head waiter;
asitore Benrubi, as Rivington Street
aclgarette ve.-der, and Dorothy VIII
II the cloak check girl. They were
| Nd in $500 bail each. Arrangement
rss made on evidence obtained in 2
nd on the night of February %, LED
y Detective Thomas Z. Dowd, of the
s.ond Inspection district.
Accused of Having False Permit
Peter j. Hughes, IS years old, p
al.sman, 451 Ninth Street, BROOKLYN
. SIS arrested yesterday by Detective
suphy, Of Chief Revenue Detective
l7gh McQmllan's staff, on q charge OF
rtsmpting to utter false and forged
guor permit of the new issue known
lalca. This issue was believed
sud proof because of water mark,
I'D perforations. The authorities
we're notified when the permit was pre-
,s,ted to the Melville Distilling Com.
pty Hughes was held in $4,000
WI M United States Commissions,
Eisan.k.
Detec.ives of Sergeant Michael Fias
.caeths Italian detective division o.
The Police Department yesterda,
arrested Mrs. Louise Garofals, thirty.
nns years old and a mother of three
alden, who lives with her famil,
nlSs Sullivan Street. She is charged
Eitn dealing in and having in hel
@siession false liquor labels. Thou
lands of the labels and dies for manu-
acturlng them were reported found or
ne premises. The woman barricadee
'erself IN her ~partment, but the de
'sctves got her 10 come out on a ruse
md seized her in the hall. The com.
paint in the case is signed by ". A
Taylor, Of the Martini & Rosai Distil.
ery. =