Evening star., 1930-06-08
BIG SHOT" ESCAPES
POLICE RAID SQUAD.
Disappears After BoaSting
to Be biggest Boot
Logger"

A self-confessed master bootlegger"
whose ideas on diplomacy obviously
lacked stability under weight of test,
nabbed the spotlight of notoriety for
the raiding activity of police vice
squads yesterday, which eliminated Ii
the seizure of nearly 500 quarts of al
legged LIQUOR and the arrest of six per-
sons. Police failed to NAB" the
Liquor king" however, when he made
a sensational fence-scaling feat to fore
sake the spotlight of their surveillance.
The big shot" of the bootleg racket
interrupted a raid on premises In
the HOO block of Third street north
east, with the query, Where's the pro-
prietor?"'7
ooh, he's around somewhere" was
the oficer's reply. Who are you?'
An, air of hauteur beset the man;
"Oh, me-" quoth he. why I'm one OF
, the, biggest bootleggers in this little
old town Of yours. The proprietor
here works for mew
At this unconventional moment,
when the arm of the law was tighten
ing its tendonS to pluck from the Seld
of this illegal racket one whose self
confession and utter lack of diplomacy
had been warrant enough for police
action, the ofhcial conveyance OF the
Metropolitan Police Department was
shunting backwards toward the frofJ
of the house. The master liquor
baron" lost his dignity and the police
thereat also lost the baron" His coat
tails were last seen as he scrambled
over q rear fence.
Police succeeded in arresting Sally
Jones, colored, "a years old, and Edward
Pongee. colored, 26 years old, at the
Third street address and charged them
with possession and maintaining nui-
sance. Two quarts Of alleged liquor were
seized.
hester Lee, colored, 80 years old, Of
the 1900 block of I street southeast,
was arrested when police seized 4os
quarts of alleged liquor on her premises.
She was charged with possession.
The SQUAD next visited a house in the
first block of G street. James SprtggS,
colored, 20 years old, gave police a chase
of three blocks before he was captured
and charged with sale, possession and
creating a nuisance. Thirty-six quarts
Of liquor were seized.
Mary Agnes Anderson, IS, and Harry
Nuckols, 40. were arrested In a RAID on
premises In the 400 block of Tenth
street northeast. The former was
charged with possession and creating
q nuisance and the latter with sale and
possession. The woman was In the
act of filing bottles with liquor when
the police arrived. they said.
Two quarts of liquor were confScated
at q house In the 300 block Of G
street southwest. No one was arrested.
Two hundred bottles Of beer were
seized by Detective Rupert McNeill and
Policeman Spotswood F. Gravely in a
raid on 2410 Pennsylvania avenue last
night. Frank Smith, 36 years old, who
lives at that address, was arrested on
charges of sale and possession OF the
contraband.
Four persons were arrested In a series
Of liquor raids by police last night and
a nth made his escape when he applied
q smoke screen and put Policeman D..
Milstead Of the eleventh precinct out Of
q chase on Benning road.
Milstead gave chase to suspected
rum car early last night on Benning
road and trailed the machine for about
q mile. At Benning Bridge the pursued
car let out a cloud Of smoke that forced
the oficer to stop.
Police of the second precinct seized
AZ pints of alleged liquor In raid at
207 Brooks court and took in custody
Catherine Guy colored, on charges Of
sale and possession. She was released
in 81 500 bond. Second precinct police
in another raid arrested Mary Williams,
colored, 1910 Fifth street, on charges
Of sale and possession.
Ninth precinct police. in two raids,
arrested Bertha Adams, colored, TIT
Pickford place northeast, and Rosie
johnson. colored, 213 Warren street
northeast.