The New York herald., 1922-01-08
headquarters to he Moved.

Within the next few days prohibition
headquarters will be moved to the
Albemarle Building, 1107 Broadway. at
Twenty-fourth street, where it will
occupy most of the fifteenth floor. Near
the rear on the Twenty-fourth street
side a mysterious vault is being built
of hollow tile, Il feet long and feet
wide. All it's sides are exposed, and it
has just one door.
Agents Maxwell, Mulholland, Mckay
and Phelan. with i search warrant,
visited a private house at PA East
Fifty-eighth street. which they said was
well known "speak easy" and seized
75 bottles of whisky. Herman Sunken-
berg was served with the summons for
possession of liquor and maintenance of
nuisance, and his wife got another for
an alleged sale.
An increasing unwillingness on the
part of walters arrested for violations
! of the Nolstead act to shield their en-
ployers Vas been noted by Federal
| agents. Formerly many walters testi-
fed the liquor in the case was their
own. and they We're often let off with
fine. while the restaurant continued
to do business as usual. Sometimes it
!
the proprietor. and in such cases the
waiter could be charged with perjury.
Few walters are taking the chance.
The theft of several thousand dollars
worth of choice liquors from the resi-
dence of Conrad Hubert, former presi-
| dent of the Everready Battery Company,
on his forty-five acre estate in Mama
oneck avenue, White Plains, was made
public yesterday. The robbery appa-
] t1xy fa1 I'll.
day night
The superintendent of the estate told
the police he found pane of glass had
been cut out from a window IN the mu-
! sic room. He found the billiard room in
great disorder. with broken bottles of
liquor all over the floor. Two secret
doors leading into the room where Mr..
Hubert kept his private stock had been
! jimmed. Mr.. Hubert has been in Flor
ida for the last month.
Patrolman Seward OF the Traffic
Squad. on duty at Fifth and Flatbush
avenues, Brooklyn. arrested two men he
| found on a truck loaded with whisky
/ Just around the corner. He said he
/ found l62 bottles sewed in six bags.
/ The defendants, Vincent Littow, 121
| First avenue. and Thomas Spnard. 10ls
! Sixtieth street. Brooklyn, were held by
Magistrate Folwell in Flatbush Court in
/ 9yp oall eacil, charged Win lIleSal trans
| portation.
! Agents Sassi, Eberle, Schwab ard Ar
] kinson. with a search warrant, raided
| restaurant at l Carlisle street at noon.
/ They arrested Thomas Keaty. 106 Green
wich street. who said he had bought the
place the day previous, and Nicholas
Smith of $40 Hicks street, Brooklyn
Alfredo Brauw. said to be the former
owner, was served with n summons a
small amount of liquor was seized. Ar
rests have been made before in this res
| taurant, the agents said.
John Bolce, a negro street corner
preacher in New Brunswick. died in his
home there from the effects of wood
alcohol poisoning The liquor was
bought in New Brunswick, but Boice
would not tell from whom he obtained
il. II was the second case in New
Brunswick in seven months.
Nelson L. Woods. IS OF 5l2 West For
ty-second street. an employee of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, was
found dead in his apartment. lie had
been dead three days. but the cause was
not determined. A five gallon still and
twenty gallons of mash were found in
the apartment