The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-03-25
DRIVE ON MIAMI
BOOTI EGGERS
Forty Prohibition Agents and
Eight ! Flying Squadrons
Making Raids

Miami, Fid., March :. zg.-foFt.
special government agents eight
saSing se.uadrons Of five men each
acting under TIE personal direction
of Col. f. Mutt, mead of the
narcotic division of the internal
revenue department launched today
nation vide lsauor clean up with
Miami as tie Starting point. The
raiders 81 versed 9ast.scovering ter
rifory Of 30 square miles. and sat
5 snSghffan had Seized liquor in 25
places and eS5eeted to visit a score
more before they quit for the day
About 20 arrests were made dur
ing the day. Thes prisoners We're
haired before United States Com
missioner 5. M. Graham, who fixed
bond Sor s1eli; tieilr5 hearings, generally
Z at, $3.50. ,.;se' =, =:
The raids We're the elimination
of. sweep5lng Ten day investigations
during 4 iiie fine mass Of evi-
.deace was eompiled by the 40 in
.Sestigators. Colonel Mutt declared
tonight that Sensational revelations
!. Mould be made later involving
proninent5 Bankers. whom he
charged with Financing the bootleg
S Industry hereaon a wide scale.
Colonel Mutt today made a 700
word reporz on his activities here
to- Federal P9ehibition Commis-
sioner Haynessat washington. He
: declared thats4tf1e openness with
which transactions IN liquor We're
carried onsa here had startled him.
HIS agents apere directed to boot,
ieggers x7f ethe same frankness
that peaieeaaan would direct a
stranger andRhad purchased liquor
ii various splacs, even winning 1t
on punch boards. In instances, he
said. bootleggers gave bankers as
reference. ssssfnstwo cases, - he de-
cIared, Observation-Disclosures We're
closed. leading Rbankers held the
purchase itlsdrust and signed con-
tract to that effect.
Touching son = smuggling opera
tons he decIaRed that it was a mi-
nor naastercfcpsshe many boats OPP
erating off ahes coast to bring IN
I nauor from bfls Banamas, or to
meet scheenegssed the keys and to
make purchases BootIeggers braz-
eniy delivereatat to any place de-
sired, once lcreached Miami, leav-
ing it in, freight cars and con-
descendingly laaDyIpg vegetables TO
camouhage- III with.
The first sGuadrons Of raiders sal
lied forth long before dawn this
morning and absgale in upon the late
reyefers at, number OF inns and
road houses at the outskirts Of the
city. 3efoSs noon they began com
ing hack to make their reports to
Colonel Nutts headquarters AL
OF the men hfpugat in various
aanbuntsa df bdEIad liquor.
- he raiaeisys worked quietly.
SIMPLY snserif the sele cte &
places, assksaasfor the proprietor,
and reading him the search
warrants. MAtck had previously
been issueda SThey then gathered
Up all the liaier they could find
and with it took their prisoner be-
2 Commissioner Graham. 1t
was. evident Colonel Mutt said, that
-tip'' had gone forth In one
place, he said. "a waitress had IN
formed the er!en that the proprietor
, had been atsaeRed and had gone
away with his Aquor.
Colonel Nasti1deelared that this
is only the Beginning Of a series
OF raids which, he will direct in
sVery city iA the ceuntry where the
liquor businessfEs thought to -four
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