The New York herald., 1922-03-30
BROOKLYN RUM RAIDS
NET A Lone ARREST
Day Threatens to Put 50 to
100 Extra Men on Duty to
Clean Up Borough.
CANADA ROUTE GROWS
Dry Agents Say Up State
Farmers Get Regular
~ Deliveries of Booze.
s1,ooo,ooo GIN HOMELESS
5000 Barrels ReShipped From
Havana HEIDI Up by
Prohibition Force.
s1,ooo,ooo GIN HOMELESS

Forty prohibition agents, including
a big squad from the office in Man
haitian. scattered through Brooklyn
up the borough. They made one ar
rest. In Jamaica they made three
arrests and in Staten Island six.
:. Tie results in Brooklyn were sur
prising. as State Director Day had
said that he considered Brooklyn the
worst of the five boroughs in its dis
regard for the liquor laws. The di-
rector declared that it was center
OF bootlegging activity. and that he
was opening up a drive to get at the
leaders. I'VE will probably spend a
week on it." he said, "and If neces-
sary, I'll put so to 100 additional men
on the job"
Michael Fennimore OF 545 Albany
avenue was the man arrested in Brook
lyn. In Jamaica Agents Morrison and
Bernaski arrested Sgmund Folkman
owner of a restaurant at 80 Rockaway
road: Frederick Reichert owner of a
restaurant at II South Washington ave-
nue. and Joseph Baumgartner, his bar
tender.
SIX Taken in staten Island.
The six men taken in Staten Island
were arraigned in Brooklyn before
United States Commissioner McCabe.
who held then, in $1,000 bail each.
Agents Reager. kerrigan and Galante.
disguised as coal beavers and carrying
dinner pals, arrested Patrick Harding,
Louis vogel and Walter MofYat of Tot
tenville. Jacob ]. Wutz of New Dorp.
John Appison of Stapleton and Anthony
Chrstano of Gramere.
The farming districts between Pough-
keepsie and Albany are thick with boot
leggers, according to Agents Van Tassel
and Hoffman. who returned yesterday
from several days scouting along tine
state roads. They believe a larger
stream of liquor than ever is pouring
over the border from Canada. on their
trip they seized an abandoned limousine
containing several cases or liquor. and
lin various places several hundred bottles
OF whisky.
Regular deliveries are made to farm
crs. the agents said, and there Is a net
work OF substations at which liquor il
received. Bootieggers do their rum
running at night and operate under a
system of code signals.
1t was reported yesterday from Bay
Vile. where a sheriff's posse seized the
yacht Edith and 100000 worth OF
liquor Monday night. that man re-
garded as a smuggling rngleader es-
capped during the attack and is being
sought In New York. Customs officials
have demanded that the yacht and her
cargo be TUNED over to the Federal
Government, but District Attorney
Weeks has refused to surrender them.
Indicted I'm Smuggling Case.
Anthony Cassese. owner OF the Edith
and ten others were indicted by the
Nassau county Grand Jury yesterday
All except George Muller, former Oys-
ter Bay constable, who has not yet beer
arrested. were released In $1,000 bal
each.
Three thousand barrels Of gin. valued
( lat almost s1,0o0.000, which arrived here
\ esterday from Havana on the steam
IL iip> Qrizaba of the Ward Line, was de
tained yesterday by prohibition agents
and placeda In a customs warehous,
pending decision OF the Treasury De
partment as to whether the liquor ma,
be stored In bonded warehouse here
The gin was bought by Peoria flrn
In 1919 and shipped to Havana the yea
following with the idea OF disposing o
II there. but mfrket conditions provet
unsatisfactory and permission was OBJ
tanned to bring the gin back to thi
country. As TIE distillery in which tn
gin was stored in Peoria has gone ou
OF business the owners asked permits
sion IN store N here