Evening star., 1923-11-10
END BOOTLEG SALES
FROM u. S. BUILDING
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even under the suspicion of permit
ting business to be carried on in one
Of its Buildings where an order for
liquor can be placed over a telephone
In that building.
Il am also advised by the police de-
taken up with you personally, and
that you have been requested to CO.
operate in trying to break up the
practice, but that such cooperation
has not been secured.
Your attention is called to the first
and second paragraphs of the lease
OF Max Aronstein, from whom you
suitcase this property. and If further
complaint from the police department
or from any other reliable source
comes to me that bootlegEers are in
the habit OF frequenting and lettering
in your place and receiving orders
for hquoEover your telephone in your
room the Aease with Max Aronstein.
from whom you subrent, will be inn
mediately terminated.
Phone I. Disconnected.
Immediately upon receipt of the
message, proprietors, OF the lunch
room disconnected the telephone
wires in the establishment. making
1t impossible for bootleggers to trans
act business there last night. 1t is
deemed certain. however, that cut
ting out the one telephone did not
serve to put the bootleggers out of
business. there being any number of
public telephones in that immediate
neighborhood.
Sergt. F. S. W. Burke Of the first
precinct. working under directions Of
Capt. E. w. Brown, served notice on
the lunchroom proprietors two
months ago that the place was sus-
pected of being visited by bootleg
gers. who were reported to have been
doing business over the telephone.
Proprietors of the lunchroom dis
claimed knowing of any bootleg op-
erations in their place of business.
but assured the sergeant they would
do all in their power to prevent such
Martin ]. McHugh, member of the
fir m, told a Star reporter that he
knew absolutely nothing of any boot
,leg business done over the telephone
"The public phone is in BOOTH"
he stated, land only the person using
the telephone could possibly know
what transpired In tt. ......
Refers to Suspects.
McHugh said. after his attention
was called to the alleged bootleg OPP
erations, he was able to recall four
or five persons using the telephone
who possibly were in the bootleg
business. They ate in the lunchroom
and were about there from time to
time, indicating, he thought. that
they had no employment.
t2 "But what their business was" he
added, .s"I did not know. AS soon as
i got the letter yesterday / discon-
nected the wires and am willing to
90 Operate with the authorities in
their efforts to put stop to the
business"
/. Maj. Daniel Sullivan. superintend-
ertt of police, this morning told q
Star reporter that the bootleg situa-
ton mentioned in the complaint was
a matter for the precinct police.
In view of the fact that 1t was
represented that the police knew of
the identity of the bootleggers,
friends of the lunchroom proprietors
expressed surprise that the violators
of the law had not been apprehended.
It is said to be the intention of
McHugh and Brown to keep their
telephone wires disconnected in an
effort to prevent a possible bootleg
business from being conducted from
their lunchroom.