Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-18
% ARE ARRA|GNED
IN POLICE COURT
ON LIQUOR COUNTS
Majority Fined $40 After
Hearings on Charges of
Intoxication.
1.-THE GARDEN OF NAPLES"
is RAIDED BY DRY SQUAD
Suspect Accused of Attempting to
Run Down Pursuing Officer
With Car.

Despite the Jones law and contentious
of prohibitionists that its drastic provi-
sions would spell disaster for liquor pur-
veyors and their customers, 80 persons
were arraigned in Police Court today on
charges of intoXication.
Court attaches declare this number
surpasses the customary list of pre-
Jones law days by at least 10 names.
The majority of those arraigned were
fined $40.
In the office of Assistant United States
Attorney David A. Hart. liquor prose-
cutor, prohibition agents and police,
whose activities have been said to be
decreasing, filed information papers re-
garding the arrests of l8 persons on
liquor charges.
The Garden of Naples restaurant,
in the 400 block of Eleventh street.
raided Saturday night, provided the OPP
portunity for Sergt. O. j. Letterman,
commander of the vice squad, to make
the first charges under the new law.
Informers having made two alleged
buys" on different occasions, Matilda
Di Dominica, SO, alleged hostess, and
Joseph johnson, Is, colored, an assist
ant, were charged with making two
illicit sales. Two quarts of rum and
one pint of alcohol were seized, police
claim.
Three Colored Persons Taken.
Ruth Alberta Landrum, Fred Will
liams and Lawrence Miles, all colored.
were charged with possession, following
their arrest by Detective S. F. Gravely.
According to police, they entered prem
ises in the HOO block of Nineteenth
street believing fight was in progress,
and discovered the trio and small
quantity of alleged liquor.
Captured after he was said to have
attempted to run down Oficer George
Newton of the eleventh precinct, in his
machine. Norman E. Goodwin faces
charges of transporting. possessing,
reckless driving and leaving after col
liding
Goodwin is said to have travelled at
speed of so miles an hour attempting
to evade arrest. Thirty-slx one-half
gallon Jars of liquor were discovered in
his machine, officials said.
Alleged to have been carrying three
one-half gallon jars of liquor in an alley
in the rear of his home in the 2Oo
block of G street northeast, John Hans
ford colored, II years old. was chargeo
with Transportation and possession. He
of the ninth precinct.
Earl Glover, 1760 block Oregon ave-
nue.. Louise Grant and Bertha Brown.
both of the first block of Alexander
court, all colored, were charged with
transporting and possessing following
their arrest by Detectives w. r. Latin,
w. F. Burke and r. A. Williams OF the
eighth precinct. Police declare the trio
destroyed liquor carried in their ma
chine although small amount was re-
covered.
Detectives Burke and Latin arrested
Albert Lorenzo Harper, colored, OF Chain
Bridge road, who they say was car
rying a case of whisky at the time OF
his arrest He was charged with trans
porting and possessing.
Assistant United States Attorney r. +.
Camalier refused to issue papers In The
cases of Annie Booker and Pearl Davis,
both colored of the 1900 block OF Four
teenth street, and Isabelle Taylor, col
ored, of the 1900 block of Champlain
street. Detectives Burke and Lafiin,
who made the arrests, alleged the trio
had a small quantity Of liquor in their
possession.
Maude Hill faces charges of sale and
possession as the result of a raid on
premises in the 900 block of Third
street southwest by Federal prohibition
agents. An informer is said to have
made buy before the raid.
Although no liquor was discovered in
a raid in the 900 block of Fourth street,
George Roy Kelly. colored. was charged
with sale and possession as an informer
is said to have purchased alleged whisky
there on a previous occasion.
John Thornton, colored, 1900 block
of Ninth street. faces charges Of trans
porting and possessing. Officer Eugene
Jackson, who arrested him, declared
that the man was carrying three pints
of liquor when taken.