The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
By ROY A. HAYNES United stntes Prohibition COmmls
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United stntes Prohibition Commits
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 The brewery situation in a certain lake city has been difficult for g long time. The shrewdest methods of escaping detection were adopted and the most persistent and defiant Violators employed professional gun men to guard the premises, obstruct the entrance of federal officers, act as outposts and escort fleets of beer rucks from their premises. The gov ernment eventually secured injunc- tions against some brewertes and stopped their operations. A number of brewers entered pleas of guilty Recently one of the largest plants was seized
 Another brewery in a nearby city also was closed by injunction pro oeedings which branded 1t as "nuisance" The president, secre- tary and brewmaster were each sem fenced to one year In the penitentiary and fined S1,000.
 In 1920 several breweries in an Ohio river city began to manufacture and sell vast quantities of alcoholic beer, This resulted in the seizure or three of tfie largest breweries and the temporary cessation of. the pees trade. In the latter part of l922 the traffic broke out again, however, but 
 ton enforcement officials once more stopped the Illegal business and now the city is relatively dry.
 At that time 1t was learned that a receiver for a bankrupt brewery useq exorbitant profits made from illegal manufacture and sale Of alcohoIic C beersto pull his brewery out of hoIe Financially. The receiver hlmself, however. fell into the hole. He was
 oa hAnF. fined tb.UUU and sentenced to serve IS months m the federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Several associates were convicted with him.
 This man was compelled as re- ceiver to keep the reeoFds Whtc1 5 would stand court inspection, ana records of bootleg profits do not IT. tbis reonirement, So canny Mir. Re- ceiver took the difference between +be nrIce which would have been pald For near beer and the high rates acfuallv received for strong beer anu nut it in a separate fund Tn his panh, Part of the money was kept m e safety deposit box and part III '' separate bank account
 A Successful 'eVVet" Candidate; ,,.
 Tn another city, a factor in the ille- vaI beer traffic was a brewer Who was fined on a charge or selIlus s hiRh-powered beer and who, In sp4tS of bfs established guilt, was eiecleq
 nd is now serving as the mayor o1 +ba city. He ran upon beer p4at,, form to bring back the good olo
 New Jersey, as Is generally known, t stauping ground for bootlegBei s doing volume business. Here they PIy their Illegal trade almost openiS s1bav boast of their success in aYolG z ir nrosecution, and of buying OH perous men; they employ eonted- aratea they take partners, they form eiignments and realignments with va Tiovs bootleg groups. Here, also' many bootleggers have come Io sor- -o1,r and scores have gone to prison. lom " ths sariy days of prohibition +bera existed in New Jersey noto-- rious bootlegger who orgahl@zeq @ 2 great groups of liquor smugglers ana Stbisky transports. He supplied scores of retailers in New Iork, Ne" JeI sew and Pennsylvania with hlgh class product and they lookea up l.o ,,.e eo him as their "king." Yet the end cam for him, and he was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentlary' Srbis sentence was later reduced 10 six months; but the king of boot leRgers" Is no longer a power. 41 some of his operations were lnNolVeu a drug company and about oo other W Another long established bootleg ginE ring was organized about two SyIne and liquor dealers of city Tn New Jersay, and 13 booleggers, ln- cluding two police detectives Ihey were indicted and their business was broken up. This Group Used s4,Oo0.Ooo.
 One western state produced rank crop of bootleg weeds which were moved down. Out of single eXteh- sive investigation grew the conviction of a number of dishonest enforce ment workers, a bank president, fl wholesale liquor dealers, a lawyer and deputy collector of internal revenue. These men were engaged m a wholesale scheme to distribute the Iiquor. The total amount of money used in the transactions was estl- mated at S4.O00, 900. The aggregate of sentences drawn by the convicted men was 31 years in prison and the total amount of fines imposed was
 one of the principal defendants was a prominent attorney. He hac been badly in debt and thought fl would be good idea to make lot oi quick money by bootlegging, He found the idea excellent, except fol the fact that he was caught, sen fenced to five years in prison ana fined $14,5O0. The prohibition direc- tor of the state and a prohibition in spector were disloyal to their govern ment in conspiring with the iquoi men and each was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1O,OOO. The chief prohibition agent of the state was convicted of bribery and sen fenced to seven years in the peniten tiary with a fine of $16,000.
 In one city there was a drug com
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