The New York herald., 1922-01-04
lge Knox Serves Notice
n Counsel That Trials
Must Be Speeded.
ISON RUM FATAL AGAIN
ntOn Himself Will Prosecute
if He Gets Sound Evidence
of Wood Alcohol.


<neh t's biggest liquor cases in this
.ldNtrhrt. it was Yearned yesterday, had
been n eld up because Of the disap-
pearance of with esses. This difficulty
was Encountered sin one case in which
was involved the illegal release of
$4,000 gallons OF liquor from a Gov
ernrnent bonded warehouse in Newark.
Edmond 7. La Bres'que. custodian of
the warehouse, was indicted last
March on the charge that he was con-
cerned in the remova Of the liqpor.
which had a bootleg value Of nearly
$T.oOO.0Oo.
Hugh McQuillan. chief Of the sspe-
cial intelligence unit of the Intcinal
Revenue Bureau, said that although
several witnesses in important chses
had vanished, he felt sure tina. the
arm of the law would be long and
agile enough to reach them.
Judge John c. Knox. sitting In the
criminal division Of the Federal District
Court made clear that he intends to
dispose Of the accumulation OF liquor
cases as rapidly as possible. The docket
contains more than ESQ cases, in. most
Of which violations of the Volstead act
were charged.
II give notice to counsel now," he
said, that beginning on January 8 and
Is, will open court at nine o'clock and
continue until Ave to get rid of these
liquor cases."
Banton Hard After Poison Rum.
District Attorney Banron announced
yesterday that IL he Is able to get a
sound case in connection with deaths in
which wood alcohol Is reported as the
cause he will try the case in court him
self. "It will be difficult to get such a
case" he said, because usually all we
have to work on Is a dead 5ody--a
stomach and brain containing lethal
alcohol To connect these with the act
ual seller is not easy. Because of the
difficulty Of getting such evidence l hat
- bill introduced in the Legislature las
year empowering the District Attorney
medical assistants to perform autopsies
Well try again this year."
Another possible wood alcohol victim
was taken to the morgue yesterday, af
ter his death in st. Vincent's Hospital
He was William Mclaughlin, age So. o.
346 West Thirtieth street Mclaughlin
went blind before dying.
Detective Harden OF the Jamaica sta
tion is investigating the death Of Michae
Baum, a wheelwright OF AZ Division
street, Jamaica. The police are trying
TO discover where he bought the liquor
he had been drinking.
Enforcement Agents Mead and Carr
son arrested Gaetano Sacco of 875 Thirt
avenue, Brooklyn, and Sake Mottube
OF a g W
carrying six bottles of cognac through
West Forty-first street yesterday.
Agents Ward and Whitehead seized
truck leaving Pier 35. Hudson River
They found three liquor cases, but onl,
one bottle OF whiskey.
~. Sent to "Metal Rubber Co."
The driver, Nathan Cooper Of 5,
Division street. said he had been in
str,Icted TO deliver the cases to 9Th,
New York Rubber Metal Compan,
somewhere in West Fortieth street." b.
q man who ran away when the agents
approached. Agents believe the liquor
was moonshine from Savannah. Moon
shine is selling through the South fol
SIS a gallon, they say.
Proceedings for an injunction agains
the premises of John J. Cleary, liquor
dealer in Court street, Brooklyn, which
where filed originally by the late Lero,
w. Ross. then United states Attorne,
in Brooklyn, were put on the calendar
yesterday at the request of Wallace r
j. Collins before he retired as United
States Attorney.
Six arrests were made over the New
Year In Brooklyn, in was announced by
William T.. Lord. in charge of the
Brooklyn enforcement office.
Peter Tarrant of 1105 Park avenue,
customs guard who. it was alleged, sho
Thomas Kenny. a saloon keeper or
Monday when Kenny refused to sci
him a drink, was arraigned In Harlem
Court Tarrant said he could not re
member any shooting. Magistrate Hat
ting held him without bail on a shor
affidavit charging suspicion Of homicide
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