The New York herald., 1922-10-08
SAY Big LIQUOR RAID
DRIES UP BROADWAY
Appleby Men Believe Flow
From Bahamas Has Been
Shut Off.
BOOTLEG CASH TIED UP
Birnbaum. of Carpet Firm
Where Cache Was Found,
Is Held in $4,000.
ARRESTS LIKELY TODAY
Property Worth $4,000 to Be
Seized Along With Liquor
Priced at S750,000.
ARRESTS LIKELY TO-DAY

Morey +. Birnbaum. president or the
Standard Carpet Company. Inc, 3l3-
3c1 East Forty fourth street, was re-
I leased in $4,000 bail after his sur.
render and arrest yesterday in con-
nection with the seizure Friday night
1 from the basement OF the building oc-
cupied by his business of vast quaint
ties OF liquors valued at between
100000 and s1,0o0.0o0 He was ar
raigned before United States Commits.
sioner Hitchcock and held for the Fed.
eral Grand Jury after waving ex.
animation.
The complaint charges Birnbaum
with violation of two sections OF the
United States Revised Statutes.
Major John Holley Clark. Jr, Assist
ant United States Attorney, basing his
complaint on information and belief
explains that violations of the two Sec
tions were committed by Birnbaum on
May 23, 1922. when "he frsudulently re-
moved from public warehouse 295
cases of champagne and 400 cases OF
whisky, and on October G, when he con-
ceaicd and aided I'm the conceament OF
certain distilled spirits on which the
Government tax had not been paid and
which had been removed to a place o.he.
than distillery warehouse"
Records Reveal Arrest Data.
Major Clark asserted that the infor-
nation on which he lodged the COM
plant against Birnbaum was obtained
in examining the records OF the Coilec-
tor OF Customs and by statements made
by persons whose names 1t is against
the public interests to reveal"
The warehouse from which the liquor
is alleged to have been removed by Birn-
| baum il declared to be the Republi.
! Warehouse. West Thirty-fourth street
The liquor taken in Friday nights raid
admittedly the greatest amount seized
in the United States since enactment OF
the Volstead law. was removed yester-
day to the army base warehouse in
/ Brooklyn.
Several other persons connected with
the Standard Carpet Company, said by
officers to have been operated as a
blind" to disguise operations OF boot
leg ring. We're called and questioned yes
terday by Col. William Hayward. United
States Attorney. They included Miss
Nellie Burke. said to be stockholder
and secretary Of the concern; Samuel
| Wise. bookkeeper; William Daley. man
ager. and Max Cohen. night watchman.
None of them was held.
The carpets and personal holdings OF
the Standard Carpet Company. valued
NJ approximately 100000. have been or
Gered seized by Frank *. Bowers. Inter
nal Revenue Collector. The property,
IL is understood. will be used evil
dence In prosecuting the case against
Birnbaum and Mamie Kessler, out unce
bond in connection with the theft from
the Republic and Anchor warehouses oi
large stocks OF liquor some OF which
was found Friday night in the carpet
concerns subterranean chamber.
Seizure of the carpet company's prop
erty and the placing OF Government
scais upon II were based by Mr.. Bowers
after a conference with Mr.. Clark. upor
s, otion 1853 of the Internal Revenue act
which gives him power to take posses
sion of "all personal property whatso
ever in n place or building where mer
chandlse subject to duty is found con
coaled.''
John d. Appleby. zone dry chief, wh'
With Ccl Hayward directed the RAID
was swamped with Congratulations yes
Iale and James kerrigan. who ch'sele'
through the brick wall behind which IN
cache of liuuor was concealed. also cor
tirued TO be praised for the work the.
cid.
The Standard Carpet Company unit
.hou, "A ear ago was conducted by c.
Posentha,, who sold Il to Birnhaurn.
Naver Sulverman. owner OF the build
ing occupied by the carpet concern. whe
questioned by Mr.. Appleby. said his ter
ants kept their rent raid three month
In ady~nce lie gave his consent. h
said. TO alterations in :he cellar. bu
later became suspicious and endeavore
10 INSPECT the place. but could not &c
permission from the tenants. II, wa
not held.
Additional arrests probably wil b
made to-day. dry agents said last night
Evidence revealed by the raid. Mr.. Ap
pleby said. will enable the prohibition
enforcement officers to connect the cal
of LIQUOR by many restaurants with tn
gang that has been selling IL in whole
sale quantities.
Friday nights seizure" said Mr.fAp
pleby. "broke up the hotbed OF bootle
activities in New York. We have foun
the base OF supplies. Much Of the seize
LIQUOR has been brought into port b.
vessels running between here and tn
Bahamas The leaders OF the interna
tional bootleg ring had ample funds wit
which To ply their trade. The bringin
in Of additional cargoes OF liquor fror
the Bahamas will be infreauent fror
now on. because the king bees hav
fallen into the net set for them by tn
! roxernpnon. ~"