The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
GOOD BOOZE
FINDS TROUBLE
AIgiers Also Has Its Rum-Gun Buns

Through all of Friday night a cor.
don of police maintained its vigil
about a house in Newton Street,
waiting for a search warrant which
would give them the right to enter
and seize. Saturday morning the
search was made.
Thirty sacks of bottled Cedar
Brook whisky which never will
quicken human pulse were confiscated
ar turned over to the prohibition Of
fiders. But the two men who, ac-
cording to the story told to the po-
lice by Joseph Littlefield, 33, 1925
Gravier Street, had taken the whisky
by force and violence, had escaped,
and now are themselves objects of
search and possible seizure.
Littlefield, who admitted, accord.
ing to the police, he is both bootleg
ger and victim, told his story to
the police about as follows:
Friday afternoon he met two men
whose names he said he did no,
know, in Royal street between her
vile and Canal Streets. With the
men, Littlefield said, he negotiated
for the sale of thirty sacks Of Cedar
Brook whisky, six bottles to the sack
for s1275.
According to Littlefield, the price
was agreed upon and he was told to
deliver the goods" at p. m, Friday
to 339 Newton Street.
At Z o'clock he drove up to the
house, Littlefield said, and knocked
at the door. To the man who an
swered he reported the arrival Of the
consignment.
Events happened quickly after
that, according to the story he told
police. Littlefield said he was pulled
inside and a gun was showed against
his ribs. The whisky which he hat
brought was unloaded and taken into
the house and he then was told tC
beat it," Littlefield asserted.
Littlefield said he guessed" the
men at the house Figured he'd keel
his mouth shut" because Of the ii
legality of the transaction, as many
others are said to have done under
similar circumstances.
Patrolmen from the Eighth Pre-
cinct police station were despatched
to the address given by Littlefield
Then prohibition officials were mott
fled.
Four men were stationed in from
of the house to prevent the whisky
being smuggled out of the place
The two policemen and the two fed
eral agents believed they had the
men trapped in the place. They
would keep the place under surveil
lance until morning, when a search
warrant could be secured.
In peering over the fence, one o
the federal agents noticed a pill
of sacks in a rear shed. He calcu
lated il was the bootleg whiskey
Such a death-like silence pervadet
the place that the agent was prompt
ed to enter the alley and peeret
through the blinds of one of The
windows. He saw that the room wal
empty. Could the house be vacant
Police and agents held a brief con
ference with the result that the!
decided then to confiscate thu
whisky. A patrol wagon from lth'
fifth precinct station was secured
and the liquor carted off to the Pc
lice station.
When daylight came and the
landlord of the house was found, the
men learned that the place was no
inhabited. The three men had evi
IDENTIFY become frightened after Lit
tlefield left and quilted the place
thinking perhaps, to return the mex
day and get the whisky, provided
of course, Littlefield had held hi!
tongue.
The landlord of the house told the
police that he rented the place t
the youngest of these men, whose
name, however he did not get, abou
three weeks ago. Police have receiv
ed a good description of the trit
and are making a city wide search
for them.