Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31
) MEN, 500 QUARTS
OF HOLIDAY LIQUOR
SEIZED BY POLICE
Two Men Injured When Car
0verturnS After 70-MiIe-
an-Hour Chase.
C0NTRABAND BROUGHT
HERE FROM MARYLAND
Expensive Car Also Taken, but
Charges Not Yet Preferred
against Suspects.

rive pEEOIeIS anu more IMAM 0UU
quarts of Maryland corn whisky were
seized by police early today when two
rumrunning outfits attempted to SNUG
gle the contraband into the Capital for
the New Year eve revelry here tonight.
A 70-mile-an-hour chase through the
downtown section Of the city with the
liquor car eluding hail of bullets net
ted William r. Latin and William Nc
Even, eighth precinct dry officers, two
prisoners. six gallons of whisky and a
smoke screen when the rum car over
turned in making a left turn at Third
and N streets southwest.
Men in the Whisky Car.
Both were cut by flying glass when
their machine toppled over and were
taken to Emergency Hospital, where
they gave their names as Joseph Demar
81, of the National Hotel, and Fred
Cole, %, of 1920 Ridge street, south
east. Cole, driver of the car, received
a severe laceration Of the right ear and
minor decorations of the face, while
Demar escaped with a minor face
1aceration.
Traced by Wheel Marks.
Sergt George NJ Little and his liquor
squad caught three prisoners and took
480 quarts of whisky as the result of
rather involved and Hurried activities
featured by speeding pursuit of a car,
which when captured was founo TO
contain no liquor, the tracking of an
other car by its wheel marks and the
arrest of the three men.
Both captures resulted from "tipS"
passed on to police. Latin had been
advised that delivery was to be made
at Tenth and w streets, while Little
had been tipped of that a load OF
liquor would be brought across the Dis
trict line about $50 o'clock this morn
ing.
Latin and McEwen took their posts
near Tenth and w streets at 1870 am.
to arrest the bootleggers when they made
the delivery, but left the scene after
five hours of vigilance went I'M
rewarded Latin, however, returned to
the point where the delivery was to be
made nearly an hour later and found
a large touring car pulled into the
curbStone, with two white men handing
cases of liquor from the car to trio
of colored men on the sidewalk.
Latin stopped his car and dashed
toward the liquor car. Observing the
officer, the three colored men fled into
a nearby residence and the two white
men jumped to their posts in the front
seat of the machine and started in re-
verse up Tenth street, with the man
beside the driver opening up an attack
with the smoke screen.
Fires on Machine.
Latin plunged through the smoke on
foot and fired several shots at the re-
treating machine and succeeded in
puncturing the radiator. He gave up
the chase after pursuing the car two
blocks and ran back to his automobile,
picked up a case of whisky which the
colored men had left in their fight and
drove four blocks to the home of Nc
Even, and started out in search Of the
bootleggers after obtaining McEwen.
The two policemen returned to
Florida avenue and Berry street, where
Latin had fired at the car, and found
the trail of water left by the leaking
the trail to John Marshall place and
c street, where they observed the liquor
car coming out of an alley.
The bootleggers caught sight OF the
policemen's machine and set out down
Third street. with the officers close be-
hind. At speed reaching 10 miles an
hour the two machines darted in and
out of traffic, over Pennsylvania avenue
and into the Southwest section of the
city without let-up.
Reaching the end of Third street,
the rum car eSsayed left turn, toppled
over once. 'righted itself and came to
a standstill.
Demar was thrown 30 feet from the
machine, and he regained his feet and
started to run, but was overtaken by
McEwen. Cole was sitting in a dazed
condition in the drivers seat with the
crumpled steering wheel still held tight
ly in his hands
Taken to Hospital.
The men were carried to Emergency
Hospital where they were treated and
later taken to the eighth precinct, where
they will be held until arraigned in Po-
lice Court. Both Cole and Demar are
charged with possession of the whisky
and smoke screen, while Cole is also
charged with reckless driving.
They explained to the police later
that they had burned one car in South
ern Maryland late last night and had
TO return to the District, obtain an
other machine and return to Maryland
fer the load of whisky which they had
left by the roadside until they could
get another conveyance to bring it into
the Capital. Consequently they were
greatly delayed in reaching the city.
According to police the two men also
told the officers that they had full
lead of whisky in their car when first
observed by Latin and had driven to
an address In Neal place and delivered
the remainder of the load. The COL
ored trio made of with two cases of
the whisky in their fight, Cole and
Demar said, leaving one of the three
cases they had ordered when they
escaped before Latin returned to the
delivery point.
Sergt Little and the other members
OF his squad, George Deyoe and Lee
Murray, stationed themselves on Bla-
densburg road at the Maryland State
line at $50 o'clock this morning to
await the appearance of the rum run
Ter they were expecting.
Their plans went awry, however
when scout car, preceding what they
supposed to have been the liquor car
signaled back to the conveyed machine
that danger was ahead. AS a result
the loaded machine did not cross the
District line, but turned down a side
road.
Fled In Machine.
Not to be so easily eluded the police
went to an address in the 1900 bloch
of Fourth street northeast where they
had been informed the liquor woulC
be delivered. They were just approach
ing the rear door when four men in {
large expensive touring car drove up Il
the front door and came in the house
This policemen managed to apprehenC
one of the men inside, but imme
6iately abandoned their prisoner il
+ their haste to overtake another o.