New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
$4,000 Liquor
Seized i'm Raid
On Apartment
Tenants 1'l,rong Hall i'm
Night Attire When AL
legged supply Depot" Is
Entered ON 82d Street
Woman Answers Bell
Police Assert Cabarets We're
Stocked From Million
aire Bootlegger's Home

Tenants of the apartment house at
i54 East Eighty-second Street thronged
the halls garbed in night attire when
police rushed a second floor apartment
yesterday morning and seized $4,000
in liquors. The police charge that the
place was supply depot for "speak-
easles" and cabarets in the white light
district, and that it has been conducted
for months by n millionaire boot
logger"
The police charge that the supply de-
pot. employed many runners who would
deliver each day to customers Just
enough liquors for nights business.
IN TINS way, the police charge, liquor
have been able to anticipate raids and
to yield little contraband plunder to
prohibition agents when such raids
were made.
lhe raiding party was made up of
Detectives De Luca, Unverzagt. Savior
and Toomey, Of the 4th Inspection Dis
trict. They were possessed of a search
warrant signed by Supreme Court JUS
tlce Edward j. McGoldrick. Besides
the liquors, the police charge, they
found revolver in bureau drawer,
and also notebook bearing the names
OF alleged Customers of the supply
depot.
Broker Held as Owner
The police charge that Albert
Blanchard is the owner of the seized
stock and the lessee of the apartment.
Blanchard gave his occupation as bro
ker He was arraigned before Magis-
trate Thomas j. McAndrews in West
Side Court and held for the grand jury
on charge of violating the dry laws.
He also was held in $500 bail on a
charge Of violating the Sullivan law
by possessing revolver. Blanchard
denied ownership of the revolver, say
ing it had been left in the apartment
by guest.
Two women and a man besides
Blanchard were present when the raid
was made, the detectives say. Detec-
tive Unverzaght knocked on the door
and said: open the door, we are de-
tectives and have warrant"
II can't open it," woman's voice re-
sponded.
"Open the door or we'll break it in,''
Unverzagt ordered.
The door was opened by a woman,
who, the police say, was in scant at
tire. The woman, without attempting
to dress, fled to window and -
about to escape on to a fire escape
when the detectives toid her that she
was not to be arrested, The other
woman was calm. Both women thanked
the police for not arresting them.
Many Tenants Aroused
The noise had aroused numerous
tenants, who scurried about the halls
in night attire or peered from half
opened doors. No excitement was no.
ticed in the street, as the raid was at
an hour when few pedestrians were
about. The police inventory of stock
seized reads in part:
Twelve bottles of Benedictine, 342
bottles of gin, 163 bottles Of assorted
wine, sixty one bottles of assorted
whiskies, fifteen bottles of Bacardi rum,
twelve fve-gallon cans of alcohol, one
fortygallon copper boiler with four
faucets containing essence of gin in
process of distillation, labels, caps, etc.
enty-eighth Street, was summoned as
owner and Patrick Saracomo as clerk
in raid by Prohibition Agents Charles
Leap, Sam Kanter and Joseph Russo,
yesterday at 62 Madison Avenue. The
raiders had Federal court bench war
rant. Three quarts of alleged whisky
and one quart Of gin were seized. The
raid was directed by Chief City Agent
| Chris Fortman.
Captain Daniel Docherty, of the
steamship Javary, seized, customs
agents charge, while cargo of alcohol
for Greece was being diverted January
80 last, withdrew his appeal yesterday
from sentence Of one year in At
| lanta penitentiary and fine of 81, 1000.
He Immediately surrendered himself to
United States Marshal William C.
Hecht and was remanded to Ludlow
Street Jail to await transportation to
the Atlanta penitentiary.
| Since the arrest of Captain Docherty
Assistant United States District Attor-