Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-07
MANUEL HERR|CK
IS SEIZED IN RAID
Former Member of House
Tells Drye0fficers He Is
Special Agent.
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highway to Point Lookout. Maintain
| ing q watch before closing In on the
still, the agents said they saw Herrick
| fire the boiler and dip mash into the
| still which was Of 1000 gallons Ca
| pacity.
still Is Destroyed.
In addition to Herrick, q man giving
the name OF Willie Airey, IS, and an
unidentified colored man were arrested
! The still was destroyed, and O truck
| containing so cases of fruit jars and
$4,000 gallons Of mash was confiscated
The agents loaded their prisoners on
the truck and drove to Upper Marlboro,
/, with Herrick, the picture of detection,
riding high in the bouncing truck.
| The party remained in the Maryland
town last night and continued to Balti-
| more this morning,
Herrick, Airey and the colored man
Pious B. Ennels, were arraigned before
Harry N. Abercrombie, United States
Commissioner, there this morning on
| charges of possessing and manufActur-
| ing liquor and operating still. Herrick
entered a plea of mot guilty.
Airey and Ennels were admitted to
| 81 500 bail. A request that Herrick's
come from the district attorneys office
caused Commissioner Abercrombie to
withhold q decision. A preliminary
hearing on the charges will be held q
week from today, August IA.
Dressed In Denim.
Herrick, wearing blue shirt. blue den
| i'm trouseres, and Army shoes, and with
a three-day growth of whiskers on his
| fN1
think he could make bail. Protesting
| mildly against bail higher than set for
| the other two. he remarked:
"You couldn't run me of with a
| shotgun"
Each of the men said his residence
was the Great Mills section of st.
Marys County.
Herrick was elected to the sixty-sev-
enth Congress from the eighth Oklaho-
ma district and served from March 4
1921, to March 4, 1928. He was de.
, agents said he was living alone In a
one-room shack near the still and that
he was working as boiler tender and
general handy man for SIS week.
Silent on Long Ride.
At first he described certain high
connections, the agents said, and volun-
|
| the vicinity, but was unable to make
good his claims when given an oppor-
tunity. He gave no further explanation
| of his connection with the still and the
agents said that he made the long ride
| to Marlboro silent and abashed.
Fierrick came to Washington from the
| Cherokee Strip country In Oklahoma
| where he had been farmer and stock.
raiser. His residence In the Capital
| = TA~eA HPAAtSmTfIf
| found a way into the newspapers. II
| 1921 q threatened breach Of promise
suit for $4,000 by the guardian Of Miss
Anna Elizabeth Niebel, lS-year-old
New York girl, brought him into the
newspapers.
Mother of Girl Complained.
The claim made in behalf of Miss
! Niebel was that Herrick called on he1
| at time when she was q contestant
In O beauty contest arranged by
| that he was rich 61ld that II she mar
! ried him she wouldn't have to work. !
Herrick's alleged attentions to- Miss
/ Elizabeth Storey, another contestant
caused her mother TO ask the Washing
ton police to keep him away from her
daughter.
He was sued also by his stenographer
Miss Ethelyn Chrane of Oklahoma. She
| charged he made statements that re-
| fiected upon her character. In turn
Herrick sued her for alleged breach OF
promise.
Most Of the litigation went against
him and he chartered an airplane and
hurried back to Oklahoma 10 campaign
for denomination.
The former Representative dropped
out Of the washington picture about
i've years ago. Last week, however
his name was put forward In Okla
homa In three-cornered race for the
Republican nomination for the House
third, polling 1853 votes.
The scene of his labors In st. Mary's
County was described by Federal agents
as one of the most carefully guarded
stills raided in the vicinity. One of the
| agents described the capture.
Logs Guarded Road.
We went 20 miles out OF the way
in order to approach 1t from an ur-
guarded angle" he said.
THE entrance used by the operators
was near sawmill and the road ran
through an area piled high with logs
There was Just room enough for the
truck to get through and once an en-
trance had been made, logs were dump
Gu VA UAiC pAAC at CNCA cAOc 81 bAAat tAAc
road was concealed.
"Raiding the place In the daytime
was futility. AT the sign of anybody
coming in, somebody at the sawmill
would pull q whistle. on course. We
knew 1t was a signal, but what could
we do? Everybody around the mill
I would stop work and get out lunches
and eat until whoever It was near had
cleared away. Regardless of the time
| OF day that whistle would blow. If en-
| trance was made from another direction
the tip-of would go out from some
farm house nearby.
Doubling on their trail, the agents
made an unsupported approach to the
| fringe of the clearing where the still
| was in operation. They looked on as
! the two white and two colored men fired
the boiler and prepared the mash. An
inspection indicated that only one run
OF liquor had been made: that the men
| were warming up to their task Of ALL
/ ing the so cases Of fruit jars that were
brought up as the agents looked on.
Seize Second Still.
The Federal men went from the
scene along circuitous route that
| brought them to another STILL nearer
| the settlement of California than the
one where Herrick and his associates
held forth The agents destroyed an.
other 1.000-gallon still at this site and
confiscated 10000 gallons of mash, but
| made no arrests. The grapevine tele-
graph" had functioned in the short
time since the earlier raid and oper-
| ators at the other base had vanished