New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-30
10Th Hole Rum
Hoard Il olllld i'm
Creepy Dungeon
Agents Bold Break Down A
Doors i'm Secret Passage
IN Raid Near Inn Haunted
by Thirst of Golfers
Stock Valued at S35, 600
Officers Devote Afternoon
to Loading Plumber Onto
Trucks in Westcllesier

Considerable motion picture material
went to waste yesterday when prchibi-
zion agents crashed four AIRED doors
witi, axes and siedges and prowled
underground passageways In q raid on
what they charge was nineteenth
hole. visited by many. Westchester
golfers.
The raid. which Melted the agents
$4,000 in choice liquors, according TO
zone Chief Agent John D. Appleby, was
on the wocdmansten Inn, in Williams
ridge Road, near Pelham Parkway, the
Bronx. No liquor was found in the
inn, but hundreds Of cases. barrels and
bottles, il is charged, were IN another
building near By.
Some days ago Chief appleby
charges, his men went 70 the inn and
succeeded in purchasing a pint OF
whisky at $40 from waiter named
Tony Filiberti.. Ten agents returned
70 the inn yesterday with q search way
rant, which they read to Joseph u.
PAM, owner of the inn.
a search OF the inn was conducted.
Il Melted the agents nothing.
Four Doors Broken
They turned their attention TO cot
tsge near the inn, occupied by Charles
Malfatto. They found the ground floor
of the cottage ordinary in every way
and were much disappointed; then one
agent came onto door when was
found to DO locked
The searchers asked for keys and,
when Malfatto said he rented theacot-
sage but had no keys, the agents
brought the axes and crowbars into
play After crashing tattoo. the
door fell inward and down stairs,
lodging against another door. This
second door was smashed and pas
sageway led TO another door. The
third door was crashed and, at the end
of another short way, a fourth was
found. This finally yielded to the axes
and crowbars and behind it the agents
found the neatest little cement storage
room imaginable.
the agents said the storage room,
which extended under the roadway,
was packed with cases, barrels and
bottles. The agents then served
PAM, as owner, and Bernard P. Hayes,
who, they said, was in charge Of the
dining room Of the inn. All are charged
with violating the Volstead law.
Nice Little Patronage
The agents telephoned for a Knick-
erbocker Warehouse truck and spent
the remainder OF the afternoon loading
1t. The officers inventory was not COM
plete when they reported to Chiel APP
pleby, but they reported that they had
found approximately twenty-five bar
sels of wine and as many of beer. 100
cases of assorted whistles, ten sugar
barrels of assorted bottles, some bot
tied wines and other eontraband.
The raiders reported that there were
few diners in the inn at the time of
the raid, bat they asserted that in
watching thu place they have seen it
we'll patronized at times by golfers
from neighboring links, by autom obile
parties and by residents in the vicinity.
Detectives Pragg and Yost, Of the
staff of the Fifth Deputy Police Com
missioner, yesterday raided the tailor
ing establishment of Horowitz Broth
ers, at 1922 Third Avenue. A thousand
dollars worth Of alleged liquors, de-
scribed as gins, Scotch, rye and rum,
and number of gin labels were seized,
as was an automobile, in which the
detectives charge a case of gin was
being transported.
Four Are Arrested
The detectives arrested Alexander
Horowitz, twenty-six years old, a
salesman, Of az West 127th Street;
Matthew H. Horowitz, his brother,
twenty three years old, of the same nd :
dress; Abraham Book, forty -one years
old, of 1443 Sea Grit Avenue, Far Rock
away, L. l., an uncle of the Horowitz
brothers, and Louis Casella, thirty-four
years old, a chauffeur, of 11S East
Seeenty-ffth Street.
The detectives said they were pass
ing the place when they glanced In
end saw a case Of what appeared to