The New York herald., 1922-10-07
TUNNEL IN MASONRY
TO VAST WET HOARD
Dry Agents Seize Cache Held
to Be Worth 100000 in
East 44th Street.
FIND WALLED-IN CELLAR
Raiders in Landing Bootleg
Gang Said to Have Refused
S15O,000 in Brides.
FIND WALLED-IN CELLAR

Ten prohibition enforcement agents
led by United States Attorney William
Hayward and John d. Appleby, zone
chief for New York and New Jersey,
chopped through brick and cement
walls in the cellars of the Standard
Carpet Company, 31e and 321 East
Forty-fourth street, last night, and
seized whisky. champagne and grain
alcohol estimated TO be worth between
100000 and $1,00o.O00, They found
the liquor, they said, in a walled in
enclosure about 25 feet wide by 20
feet long, entered, it was discovered
later, through a trap door in the floor
OF n garage next door. which the
agents declare also is operated by the
carpet company.
Mr. Hayward and Mr. Appleby said
after the raid that among the seized
liquors they found sixty cases OF Scotch
bearing serial numbers and otherwise
answering the description Of liquor
taken from she Republic Storage Com
pany's warehouses IN 541 West Thirty
fourth street on forged withdrawal per
mits between May 25 and June l. Whisky
stolen from the Anchor Warehouses in
West Forty-seventh street was also
found in the secret cellar. the authori-
ties said and they expect that before
they have completed their investiga-
tions they will connect the liquor with
the operations OF large bootleg gang.
Importance Of Seizure.
rri,n T-1t,ad cta.o. a,ro~rn,. 50 id t3,at
,he seizure was OF great significance in
the investigation the Grand Jury is
making OF the Republic Warehouse with
drawal cases. Three men are under ar
rest in connection with that case, he
added. or,e OF whom, Nanny Kessler. is
out on bail. Papers found in Kesser's
possession led TO the enforcement agents
watching the plant of the carpet com
pany in Forty-fourth street. by which II
was learned that an employee OF kessler
had business with the carpet company
that kept him in the plant a great deal
Of the time.
Much of the credit for running down
this gang Of bootleggers belongs to
Frank Hale and James Kerrigan of my
staff" said MIR. Appleby In the face
OF many bribes TO the extent OF more
than Si5O.OO0. they continued to do thei-
duty and obtained evidence on which
this raid was made"
with the evidence obtained by these
agents and because OF the further fact
that the manager OF the Three Star
Chop House said that he had purchased
whisky from Kesslers agent the au-
thorities got a search warrant from
United states Commissioner Hitchcock
yesterday afternoon. Last night, bring
ing trucks from the Knickorbocker
20 tfA "a V=Naf
company's place. a FIVE story brick
building near Second avenue. They
went into the cellar but an examina-
ton disclosed nothing. Then they meas
ured the floor space Of the cellar and
the space OF the floor above
suspect Two Cellars.
These measurements, the enforcement
agents said afterward, did not agree
and convinced them that there were two
cellars under the building, but not
connected SO they went TO the rear
OF the main cellar. and with picks and
sledges began smashing their way
through the brick wall. They found It
TO be almost two feet thick OF heavy
stone and brick tightly cemented but
eventually they got into the place. Maxi
ing hole large enough for two men
to crawl through. the agents suuirmed
into the second cepar and there, they
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