The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-22
IMPORTED BOOZE MADE IN MOBILE.
Twenty Cases Of Liquor Shipped From Gulf City
 Seized In St. Louis

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 21.-(speclal Leased Wire. .)-Following raids made by federal and state agents in Mobile late yesterday afternoon, additional warrants were issued this afternoon and Dan Dure, proprietor of lower Dauphin street paint store. was taken ,nto custody. Some other arrests will be made later, it was believed, while others may not be made before to- morrow
 Only small quantity of liquor was found on these raids, it was said.
 James Dawes, Harry O'Connor and Louis M. Nelson, three of the persons arrested in connection with the clean up by prohibition officers in this city, all waived examination when arraign- ed for preliminary hearings before United States Commissioner J. |. Burgett this morning. The defendants requested preliminary hearings when they were arrested and several of the charges were set for hearing today. These were to be the first of the trials resulting from the arrests and large number of people gathered at the Federal building this morning to attend the hearing. They received the news with evident disappointment that the hearings would not be held and they would not hear the testi-
 
 promised to be somewhat sensational Imported In Name Only.
 One of the agents making the raid tt l02 North Royal street. in which place the government charges Dawes is interested, brought to the building 10 be used as evidence together with other things, case of bottles, several hundred new and unused caps, such as is found on bottled-in- bond liquor and a large number of new gummed labels of well-known brands of whisky. The federal men expressed the opinion that much of the stuff sold in Mobile as imported whisky was made right in Mobile in this manner.
 The raid at the Dawes place was one around which centerS a great deal of interest. Besides the arrests on the charges of violating the prohibition law and conspiracy, John Bullen was docketed under charge of inter- ferring with and resisting an officer Books which the officers attempted to get in this raid were removed from the building through the rear, it is said.
 Twenty cases of imported Scotch whisky shipped from Mobile several days ago and presumed to have been sent from this city just before the federal agents swooped down here Tuesday Of last week, were Selzeu at a freight depot at East St. Louis to- day. according to an Associated Press dispatch received in Mobile.
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 Liquor Is "Spotted."
 The liquor was spotted on advance information sent to federal agents at St. Louis, according to the dispatch. This information presumably went from Mobile though federal agents in charge of the raids here declined to affirm this today.
 At the time of the seizures here, it was rumored that some of the li- quor constituting the cargo which was landed from a vessel just before the raids, got out of the city before the prohibition men "swooped." It was reported that several automobiles and at least one truck left the city on the night before the raids were staged carrying liquor to interior points. That some of the liquor was also shipped out as freight was also indicated by the seizure at St. Louis today.
 The shipment seized today was sent from Mobile as brass cores," accord ing to the story received here.
 A barrel of imported liquor was seized at the Louisville and Nashville depot here last summer consigned to Louisville, labeled floor sweepings."