Evening star., 1926-03-21
B00TLEGGER FO|LS
POLICE At CAPITOL,
BUT LOSES HIS RUM
Man in Green Hat Gets Away,
After House Office
Building Debate.
REAL POSTWAR STUFF,
CAPTORS LABEL SEIZURE
City Combed for Salesman Forced
to Detour En- Route to Gus
toner Under Dome.

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in an ace of capturing a bootlegger
yesterday afternoon.
AS it was, Officer George H. Choir
ley, on duty in the House Office Build
ing. captured four quarts of what
prohibition officials said was very
poor Scotch whisky, and brief case.
He also gave the name of the alleged
purveyor of the brief case to the pro-
hibition officers, who promptly swore
out a warrant for his arrest, and, as
the saying goes. were combing the
town for him last night. They said
he was we'll known to them and an
old offender.
Although it was denied on good au-
thority last night that any special
orders had been given the Capitol
police force to enforce the prohibition
law at the Capitol or in the office
buildings, the House Office Building
police evidently were on the alert
Yesterday afternoon, and when Of
fcer Chorley recognized a gentleman
with brief case and wearing
green hat saunter down one Of the
white marble corridors, he stepped up
alongside and asked him what was
what.
His Second Trip, Too.
Officer Chorley and the rest of the
Capitol police were as silent as clans
last night concerning the incident.
but from indisputable authority came
that the gentleman car
tv,oy "a
green hat was on his way to make a
second delivery of wet goods. and that
he had already succeeded in making
one delivery during the day. 1t was
also stated that the name of the Con-
gresham to whom the goods were
going was known. but nothing short
oc dynamite would serve TO blast the
name from those in whose keeping
it is.
Returning to the narrative, Officer
Chorley approached the man with the
green hat and the brief case and
asked him to accompany him-with
the brief case-to the headquarters
office of the House Office Building
Police Force. Officer Chorley placed
especial emphasis upon the brief case.
1t would do no good. he is said to
have argued, for the gentleman wear
ing the green hat to come with him
without the brief case. In so many
words, he said it was the brief case
which attracted his interest, and he
wanted the brief case to come along,
too.
To this the gentleman wearing the
green hat would not agree. 1t would
be highly proper, he is said to have
argued, for him to accompany Officer
Chorley to the office of the chief of po-
lice or any other place, but to bring
the brief case along would be highly
improper. Such things, he emphasized.
are not being done this year and he
was no man to break precedent.
The Mans a Thinker.
The matter seemed approaching an
impasse There was officer Cnorley
and there was the man with the green
hat and the brief case. But the man
with the green hat wouldn't oudge
with the brief case, and Officer
Chorley wouldn't bulge without it.
Finally a solution of the vexing ques-
ton was suggested. it is said, by the
man with the green hat.
Here, he is quoted as saying. as
little room where / can leave my
brief case. After l put it in here 7
will go along with you. What could
be fairer?"
NO" said Officer Chcrley. for he
was by this time fully determined.
you must bring the brief case"
NO" said the man with the green
hat. II will leave it here"
Thereupon, according to The Stars
informant--a man, by the way, or
rare integrity-the man with the
green hat placed the brief case in
room and left.
Where he went is not a question
for discussion here. That is left for
those who have a warrant. But as
to the brief case
Officer Chorley had been fully in
structed in the danger of arresting
a man without probable cause" or
of searching what he had without
probable cause" as the lawyers say.
Some Real Postwar Stuff.
He proceeded with caution. He
summoned two witnesses to stay by
him while he opened the brief case.
This he did. What. no! Within the
DIl0l Ease NCiO loQk puci - W
legedly poor Scotch whisky.
Officer Chorley may or may not
have said II told you So" At any
rate officers of the prohibition force
were informed and 1t was learned
that they. too. had been on the look
out for the gentleman with the green
hat and Immediately swore out a war
rant for his arrest. They were sure
they would catch him last night.
Prohibition officers last night volun-
teered the information that the man
for whom the warrant has been is
sued was arrested once before through
the work of the late Leroy Asher
of the prohibition force. who tele.
phoned him and represented himself
as Congressman. He delivered
liquor, 1t is alleged, to the address
given by Asher and was arrested.
About the time the exciting Incl
dent of the man with the green hat
and the brief case was In progress
Capt. Guy E. Burlingame and men-
bers of his flying squadron" were
raiding the Analostan Boat Club.
Twenty-seventh street and New
Hampshire avenue.
They arrested Sidney DAILY. who
they said. lived at the club, and
charged him with illegal possession of
whisky. Nine gallons of rye whisky
were reported to have been found on
the premises. The liquor. 1t is alleged,