New Britain herald., 1929-10-21
Federal Court Prosecutions of Prohibition Law Violators Up
 3l PC. In Conn. During Year
l33 Charges Filed for 2 Month Period Ended June 90 Fines Collected Drop From S28,O25 to S24, ,4O5-
 Convictions Fall Off in Nation.
By GEORGE IT.. MANNING

Washington Bureau x. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., Oct. 21- Prosecutions for violations Of the national prohibition act in the fed eral courts of Connecticut increased considerably during the fiscal year ended June 3, last, and although the number Of convictions also showed substantial increase the amount Of fines collected took q de- cided drop.
 The number Of cases instituted in the year ended June 30, inCreas- ed approximately 3l per cent. as compared with the previous tiscol year, while the number of conVic- matcly % per cent, but on the other hand the amount of fines collected in the prohibition cases decreased q trifie more than F per cent. These facts are made known in a report by the department Of jus ticc which reveal that the number of cases instituted in the Init"1 | creased from 1O2 in the year ended i June 90, 1928. to 1&3 in the fiscal year ended in June Of this year. The number Of convictions and pleas Of guilty increased from 102 ! to 1&1, but 10 offset this the amount of fines collected decreased from s2S,025.o3 10 $24,405.00 in the same time.
 | The nationwide trend is some i what different it k shown. While 1 the number of liquor cases institut- cd in thn federal courts throughout 1 the United States and the amount of fines collected increased during i the year. the number of convictions and pleas of guilty fell off.
 There We're instituted in th" United States courts of the country 56,7S6 prohibition eases during the fiscal year ended June 90. last, as compared with 55,729, the year be fore. From these cases there were obtained 47,1o0 convictions during the past fiscal year as compared with 4S.S20 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928, drop of 72O Tha amount Of fines incrcased in the year, however, from S7,303, 5G3.2S 10 $1476.3Uo.40.
 The report of the department Of justice shows the rise in liquor law | litigation since the operation of thc national prohibition act: In 1921. thrr" were 23.114 cases; in 1922, 34.9Si cases; in 1929. 49.021; n 192t, 45,S7S; in 1925. 50.743: m 1926, 4.,492 cases; in 1927, 4O,7o@: and in 1928. there were 55,721 cases. II is seen that the incrca sn in number was not steady although it was higher in the last year than ever before
 Ii is shown by the report that the
 ilrErSt number of cases in a single
 district were instituted in the south Icrn district of New York which in CIudcs New IOr'- Ci y. with the east
 crn district of Kentucky second. the
 northern district of New York third.
 and the laW-abidine District Of Co.,
 lurHb;a, fourth.
 Whereas the southern New York
 district led in the number of cas"s
 with 7,S1G, the state of Kansas.
 which was dry many years befo"r
 tine Nolstcad act, had the least num-
 Der, 2& cases. But 40 cases were
 tried in the whole state Of Mort
 Dakota.
 Eastern Kentucky led in the mat
 ter of fines collected with $444,712
 poured into Uncle Sam's coffcrs in
 a year, while all the liquor Htiga-
 ton in the federal courts of Kan
 sas nctted only $500.