The New York herald., 1922-01-27
DAYS AGENTS RAID
OLD WET NEIGHBOR
Celebrate Moving to New
Headquarters by Seizing
Rum i'm Hines's Place.

Just around the corner from prohibi-
ton headquarters In West Twenty-sev-
enth street is Joe Hines's saloon. at
Twenty-eighth street and Sixth avenue.
Yesterday was the prohibition depart
ment's last day in the Twenty-seventh
street offices, and 1t may have been
in celebration of the occasion that a
squad Of enforcement agents went round
the corner to Hines's place with a
search warrant, and carried off nearly
two cases of imitation liquor.
Agents Mcmahon, Newburger and
Owens. who made the raid, left a sum-
mons for the proprietor. charging him
with violation Of the Vols.ead act, and
placed his bartender. Joe Lynch, under
arrest. Twenty-Five h~ttles of rye"
gin and wine were found on dumb
waiter In the basement, and these were
seized.
Ralph A. Day, State Director, an
nounced that the headquarters IN the
darlington Building will be closed at
noon to-day, with the exception of the
withdrawal department, and tbat the
new offices will be open; Monday
morning in the Albemarle Building.
Twenty fourth street and Broadway.
A grerd tugboat, bound from st. John,
n. B., for Nassau in the Bahama ISL
ands steamed into Verdon's shipyard
at Port Richmond, Staten Island yester-
day. after having been conveyed down
the coast by relays of coast guard cut
ters. The cutter Gresham. which picked
the Harbirger up at point off Bridge
port, Conn.,, was relieved of duty off ST.
George by the cutter Manhattan. which
will pass the Harbinger on to another
&C ast guard vessel after she has resumed
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for so much official concern for the
Harbinger is that she has 800 cases of
excellent Canadian whisky in her hold.
said to be under seal
The tug can carry only a limited sup
ply OF fuel and water-enough for forty
eight hours--and that Is why she was
permitted to put in here On her way
south she has stopped at Rockland, Port
land, Boston. the Cape Cod Canal, New
port and New London, always with a
cutter In her wake.
Capt. Gotham of Eastport, Me-, ad-
mitted that the Harbingers hold was
filled with whisky, rum and champa gne.
but he asserted that the cargo would
remain intact until the tug reaches the
bahamas.
= ~ Coast Guard order indicates that
the tug Is suspected of being rum
smusger.
1t was learned at the Custom House
yesterday that the first arrests on Ho-
boSen piers I'm connection with liuuor
smrggled had been made. Agents ar
rested Andrew Carbone, a saloonkeeper.
or 404 jefferson street. and Louis Math.
iesen of 41S Court street, both of Io-
boken. Mathiesen is said to be head
OF trucking concern.
According to Edmund Barnes. assist
ant solicitor to the Surveyor of the Port
Ca-bone employed Mathiesen yesterday.
directing him to drive to pier at Sew
enth street, Hoboken, where Agents
Palmer and Burton saw them take four
and half cases of Scotch from the
steamship Marengo. lying at the pier.
Magistrate Simpson In the West Side
Court reprimanded Patrolman Patrick
Collins OF the West Forty-seventh street
station for entering the home of Mrs.
Hanna Murphy. 752 Ninth avenue. whom
he charged with violation of the State
liquor law.
Magistrate Simpson said that this is
another outrageous interference with
the rights of individuals in their homes" "