New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-29
Aviatrix Seized
In Dry Raid by
Woman's Trick
Jeanne Herveaux and Hus-
band Arrested and Cellar
Emptied, as Music Pupil
Provost o Be Policewoman
Narcotic Charge Made
Crowds See Police Smash
Door at Corini's Cafe and
Get $4,000 i'm Liquor

avlatrix and captain Of the air sec
ton of the Police Reserves, who served
with the French army as a nurse dur
ing the war under the name Of Jeanne
Herveux, was arrested yesterday at
her home, "a West Ninety fourth
street, charged with violation of the
prohibition enforcement act
Her husband was arrested also
charged with illegal possession of mar
cotlcs. The detectives who arrested.
them later went to 157 West Forty
fourth Street, building occupied by
Gorinis restaurant, and seized liquor
valued at more than $4,000.
The raiders said that Mrs. Catelano
shared her home with her mother,
Nine. Lima Sarti, an opera singer con-
nected with La Scala di Milan, who now
Is giving music lessons here. The evil
to visit the house was obtained by a
policewoman who represented herself
as ambitious to become an opera singer
and went to Nine. Sarti for instruction.
Detective Plays ."Fiance"
After the fourth lesson she told the
teacher that she would bring her
fiance around the next night and pay
Tor them. On that night Detective De
Aucca played the part of her fance and
paid for the lessons. While he was
there, he said, both he and the police
woman were served with wine.
Early yesterday Detectives De Lucca,
Unversaft and Saylor, armed with a
search warrant issued by Justice Dom
nelly, of the Supreme Court, returned
to the house and made the raid. They
seized a quantity of wine as we'll as
bottles, corks and labels of various
kro 10 /, IL i
and two hypodermic svringes, along
with five bottles containing white
powder. Mrs. Catelano declared that
the wine was kept for her own use.
Her husband, who said he represented
the firm of Fl. K. Milford G. Co., of
Philadelphia, denied that the bottles
contained drugs, and said that the
needles were samples.
Arraigned before Magistrate Rytten-
berg in the West Side court in the af-
ternoon, Mrs. Catelano was held in
$500 bail and her husband in $1,000
bail for hearing on Monday.
Crowds See Cafe Raid
While thousands of theatergoers,
Broadway shoppers and guests of the
Claridge and Aston hotels watched
their operations with interest, the four
detectives made their surprise visit to
was found in the basement of the res
taurant, which is now owned by Giro
Ussenlpi, and the rest was said to have
been in the rooms on the second floor
Of the same building occupied by Pete,
Gcrlni, the former owner. Both men
were taken to the West Forty-seventh
Street station, charged with violating
the state prohibition. law and probably
will be arraigned in court to-day
Bearing a warrant issued by Justice
Lydon Of the Supreme Court on evil
dence said to have been obtained in
this case, also by woman detective
the plain clothes men entered the
restaurant and were met by Ussempi
While the latter was reading the war
rant, the detectives said, they saw the
door at the stairway in the middle OF
the dining room suddenly closed and
locked from the other side. De Lucca
rushed to the door just too late. There
remained then nothing to do but to
break it down, which they did, while
the many patrons at the tables looked
on with curiosity, but with no attempt
at interference.
Liquor In Basement
In the basement was found a guam
tity of liQ1 r consisting of wines, cor
; dials, whistles and other varieties
which were ali brought up and placed
aboard q patrol wagon. With the
crowds on the streets looking and ex-
pressing their amusement, the wagon
was forced to make three round trips
from the restaurant to the station in
order to carry away the $4,000 stock
; At the station Gorini declared that the
liquor said to have been found on the
second floor had been purchased by
him before prohibition went into ecect
In the crowd which watched the en-
tire proceedings were several Federal
prohibition agents, who asserted that
they had slaid plans to raid the same
, place.