The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-14
PROBE FAXED
BOOZE RAIDS;
COP QU|ZzED
Police Sergeant Charged
With Leading Bogus
Agents to Shop.
QUESTION TWO OTHERS
Hint Former Officers May
Have Taken Part in
Fixing Plot.

Two alleged fake liquor raids are
under scrutiny Of city and federal
authorities today. In one, police
sergeant has been questioned, and
in the other a man who formerly
held that rank and former dep
utv sheriff spent most Of the morn
ing facing a barrage OF questions
by detectives. They were released
when a woman failed to identity
them.
The sergeant was involved Sun
day night in an affair at the Tasty
Toasty shop, Seventy-first street
and United States highway 81.
The two former officers were
questioned concerning raid by
several men July on the home OF
John Reese, 4423 Allisonville road.
$500 to "Fix" Case
Mrs. Reese was forced to give the
men $500 to AK the case after
they found three quarts of home
brew in the house. She was un-
able to identify the two former Of
ficers when she confronted them
today.
The sergeant, according to Chief
Mike Morrissey has admitted he
and three Of his civilian friends
visited the sandwich shop Sunday
night, but denies raid was staged
or any federal badges carried,
The charges were presented by
John McGrady, 80 West Thirteenth
street, waiter in the shop, which
was closed by the owner MONDAY
night as result OF the incident.
Flashed Badges, He Says
McGrady today said six men and
n woman came into the sandwich
shop Sunday night and sat at ia
bles. one of the men asking MN
for some liquor.
II told them they we're in the
wrong place, and started to the
kitchen to prepare an order from
another party" McGrady related,
"and when I reached the kitchen
door. three Of the men grabbed me,
said they we're federal men, haShlng
badges. and told me they were 60
ing to raid the place for liquor.
zone of them, a police sergeant l
have known for years, showed me his
gold police badge. They took me
down the basement and threatened
me, and when they didn't ma any
LIQUOR. took me back upstairs.
Left without Paying
"Just then the owner of the place
telephoned. One of the men held
the receiver to his own ear and l
was told to tell the manager, Her.
man Rudy, to come out. Finally one
of the men told him the feds were
there.
Then they sat at tables and or
dered sandwiches and coffee, later
leaving without paying when Rudy
failed to arrive"
Morrissey said he first learned
of the incident Monday through de-
tectives Stewart Coleman and Nor
ris Corbin, who were told about 1t
bv federal Investigators, with whom
they were investigating the Reese
case.
The police sergeant was called in
and readily admitted being at the
sandwich shop, Morrissey said, but
gave a different version OF the IN
cident.
II went to the shop with three
friends and my girl for sandwiches,
Morrissey said the sergeant told
him.
Tells of Near Fight
"One of the men with me asked
the waiter (McGrady) for a drink,
and at first he refused, later saying
he would get some.
One of the men asked the waiter
how he knew we weren't federal dry
agents, and the waiter said he knew
We weren't.
Then the waiter asked who I
was. mentioning my name. My
friends gave him a fake name for
INT anu dShGN IL klE hllCM liACs
Sure 1 know him. He made
me give him $500 to fix things once
when he caught me with load of
LIQUOR the waiter said.
Il jumped up and showed him
my badge, told him I was the man
he was talking about and that he
was a liar I was going to kick
hell out of him. but my friends in
terfered and we went downstairs to
have it out.
After I told him what I thought
OF him, We went back upstairs and
we left
Denies Officers Version
McGrady denies the officers YER
sion.
McGrady, the detectives who in
veStigated. the police sergeant, his
three friends and federal inveSti-
gators met with MorriSSey Tuesday
afternoon and the several versions
were related.
MorrisSey said McGrady failed to
identify any of the four men who
admitted being at the shop.
McGrady explains this with the
statement that the sergeant sent
one Of the four to see McGrady
Monday night with the promise he
would be taken care of" if he went
easy on the four.
II didn't see any sense in causing
them to lose their jobs, so didn't
identify them" McGrady said to-
day
Denied College; Leaps to Death