Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-01-27
DEATH Of MAN
CAUSES ACTION
! N sAyREV|LLE
Mayor Clark Leads South
Amboy and SaYeviIIe Po-
lice in Clean Up
SHOTS FROM WINDOW
County Also Investigating
Death of n--Body Found
Along Tracks
SHOTS FROM WINDOW

SOUTH AMBOY, Jan. 27.-Head-
ed by Mayor Edward Clark Of Sayre-
Vile, group of police officers from
here and Sayreyille last night in
vaded the farm of Frank Kollish,
located on the Conover estate, near
the water works, and confiscated
seven barrels of wine, four cases OF
home brew, ten-gallon copper boiler
OF newly made home brew and two
barrels of mash.
The raid of the Kollish place made
yesterday afternoon by police forces
Of Sayreville and South Amboy, was
only a prelude to the second round
UP, which began shortly after 9
o'clock last night. Officers George
Gross and Frank Olson of ,Sayreville,
Sergeant David Quinlan and Patrol
\fian John Stanton Of South Amboy
accompanied Mayor Clark at the
second spectacular raid. s,.
When the authori les arrived, Mrs.
Kollish made a. vain attempt to pre-
vent the. raiders from selling the
many barrels of the pro-lik .tive bev-
erage. While the officers were busily
engaged searching for the still and
was said. trapped the officers by
locking the men in the cellar with a
trap device from the upper part of
\ her residence. Patrolman Stanton,
who remained on the outside guard,
heard the call and rushed to release
the men.
Meanwhile, while the alleged wine
and liquors were being removed to a
waiting truck, three shots from a
double-bar revolver were fired
from the upper part of the house in
l., ~ ~ NO .N1i ofi A
warning to the police not to ocme
again to the place was plainly heard.
Who fired the shots and cried the
warnings was deep mystery still
unsolved this morning. Police be-
lieve it was member of the Kollish
family who took advantage of the
darkness encircling the Kollish far- 4
at that hour
Mrs. Kollisf' at one occasion, so
the police say, made believe that she
was fainting., When helping her, she
grabbed a large club and hit the
men, telling them to leave her alone.
County Detective Ferd A. David
came to South Amboy yesterday to
make a searching investigation of
the alleged rum running place and
probe the death of John Houlihan,
who was found dead early in the
morning on January "a along the
tracks of the New Jersey & Long
Branch railroad.
The raids were the result of in
formation received by the local p"-
lice from Patrick Gibbons and Pc
ter Genero, both employees Of the
government ordnance depot IN
Morgan. They claimed that on the
night of Jan. 2S, in the company
Aof Houlihan they drank freely at
3the Kollish place. Houlihan. al
though completely intoxicated. ven
tured to leave the farm to return
to his home and met with his
death as q passing midnight train
struck him.
Assistant Prosecutor John e
Toolan instructed to hold Kollish in
$1,000 bail on a charge Of posses
sion and sale of liquor. When ar
raigned this morning before Recor-
der Lehman in Sayreville, Kollish
pleaded not guilty and furnished
the bail. Kollish insists that most
of the confiscated beverage is used
to feed the cattle and poultry. In
direct analysis of the seized mash
proved to contain potato skins aud
rye bread to help the quick fe--
mentation of the hooch.