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OL. XLIII—NO. 30.
75 CAUGHT IN WASHINGTON RUM RAIDS
Wealthy Divorcee Sues Coca-Cola Founder for $500,000 ‘Heart Balm’
JULBERSON
CASE JURY
DISMISSED
inal Ballet at Wichita
Falls Is Eleven to One
for Acquittal.
armer holds out
lected After Defense Had
Used All Peremptory
Challenges.
TUDY CASE 50 HOURS
Major Smiles After Dis
charge—ll Jurors
Shake His Hand.
I Wichita Falls, Tex.. Feb. 17.—The
fury in the case of Maj. W. L- Culber
pn, charged with the murder of L.
w Tamar, phonograph salesman, was
[ismtssed at 4:35 p. m„ today after
teliberating exactly 50 hours.
I After the jury was discharged the
oreman stated that the first ballot
aken last Thursday afternoon stood
leven for acquittal and five for con
iction. Later one of the jurors left
he ranks of those who held out for
onviction. „
When a ballot was spread at 3
'Hock Friday afternoon the vote
Ranged to eleven for acquittal and
\ne for conviction. Since that time
Fie foreman said, there was no
Ihange.
/ Major’Culberson, who had been con-
Otantly in attendance on the court,
J.t facing the jury box when the
J irymen filed in. Lines on his forc
lead and those around his eyes grew
Ue per and more tense.
K When the foreman stated that they
Stood eleven to one, a faint smile ap
peared on his face. He stroked his
bin as he looked with confidence
I uto the eyes of one of his counsel,
[ ibo sat near him.
Fifty In Court.
| Less than 50 men and not a wo-
I nan were in the court room when the
fury reported and was discharged.
Mrs. Culberson had not been seen
I n the courts since the close of the
I irgument Thursday afternoon.
: Eleven of the twelve jurors shook
lie hand of the defendant just before
hey passed out of the court room.
W. W. Humphrey, farmer, was the
juror who hung the jury by clinging
Io his first ballot. He was selected
Ms the eleventh juror in the case and
iVas taken after the defense had
Utilized all of its peremptory chal
lenges and had no choice in the mat
-ler of his selection.
:] The dismissal of the jury brought
io u dose one of the most sensational
vases in the history of local courts.
Culberson, a former officer of the
American expeditionary forces, nnd
brominent in military circles through
put the country, pleaded self defense
knd invoked the -unwritten law.”
) Throughout his trial he endeavored
io show that he shot the phonograph
talesman in front of the latter’s
hlace of employment on the morn
ing of January 8, when the latter
ilnade a movement with bis hand as
K to draw a pistol.
'» The army officer had goneto see
Sramar to talk to him concerning the
[former’s domestic affairs, be said on
Khe stand.
K Witnesses were introduced to
J-aint the victim of the shooting as a
Iriespoiler. Others testified he had
Dwen seen often visiting the apart-
Jpent of Mrs. Culberson.
“Frame Up,” State Says.
| On the other hand, the state at
tempted to show that Lamar was in
llocent of any wrong-doing, and in
jimated that he was the victim of a
pframe up.” Eye-witnesses declared
[ hat he made, no movement as to
[iraw a pistol prior to the shooting.
E A police judge, who had tried Mrs.
[Culberson and Lamar, a few days
before the shooting, for vagrancy, told
Jbe court that he had acquitted the
Uwo when no evidence was intro-
Vuced to show their relations were
Lach as to bear out the charges. Cul-
Urson’s two daughters took the stand
lend declared they were present in
[the room when Lamar called at their
[mother’s apartment.
U Although Mrs. Culberson, known
were as “Major Thrift,” for her ae-
I arity during the war in selling War
Heaving Stamps, was present during
■most of the trial, she did not take
Se stand.
f ? Shortly after Lamar was killed she
declared in an interview that her re
lations with him were of purely a
[I usiness nature.
i Approve Cameron Sewer Bonds.
. Austin. Tex.. Feb. 17.—An issue
tt $lO,OOO of Cameron sewer exten-
Han bonds, bearing 6 per eent nnd
■Pairing serially, was approved Sat-
Erdny by the attorney general's de
partment.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
PRISONER GETS DROP
AND FORCES OFFICER
TO SURRENDER GUN
Is Later Arrested and Held
on Intoxication
Charge.
Patrolman Valdez, officer .on the
West Side, was disarmed by a white
man at 6:25 Saturday afternoon at
the point of a rifle, after having placed
the man under arrest. Police Cap
tain Trevino, in response to a call sent
in by Valdez, later arrested the man.
with two others at a Travis street
dwelling. Charges of resisting arrest,
rudely displaying a weapon, and intox
ication were filed against the man
while his two companions were
charged with being intoxicated.
According to Valdez, he was sum
moned to the West Travis street
dwelling, near tbe intersection of
North Laredo street, by a woman who
reported a fight in progress at her
home. When the officer entered the
place, he said, he found a man armed
with a .45-caliber pistol. The officer
disarmed him. After placing two
other men under arrest, tbe _ officer
turned to find himself looking into the
muzzle of/a rifle in the hands of the
man who he had just disarmed. The
officer surrendered his pistol, upon the
demand of his former prisoner, left the
premises and sent in an alarm to head
quarters. .
Captain Trevino, accompanied by
Deputy Constable Marx, responded.
Captain Trevino, entering the dwell
ing suddenly, surprised the occupants
and placed the three men under ar
rest. Valdez’ pistol was recovered and
restored to him.
‘WOLF OF LA SALLE
STREET' MAY GO TO
JAIL SECOND TIME
Alleged Deals Total $50,-
000,000 in 35
Years.
Chicago. Feb. 17 John W. Worth
ington, for the second time in his
35-year career as the “wolf of LaSalle
street,” faced a prison sentence to
night. , ,
The 72-year-old banker was found
guilty of using the mails to defraud
by a jury in Federal Judge Alschuler’s
court here today and faces a sentence
of ten years imprisonment and a fine
of $20,000.
The promotion of the Mercantile
Securities and Investment company
resulted in his conviction.
Thirty-five years ago Worthington
was a grocer in New York state aud
by alleged manipulation, obtained
control of another grocery. He served
in Sing Sing prison as a result.
His subsequent operations were al
leged by authorities to have involved
deals totalling $50,000,000.
THREE DEAD, 50 CUT
Victims Mangled So Badly That Iden
tification Imnossihlc.
Mount Clemens. Midi.. Feb. 17.—
Three men ore dead, another injured
seriously, and 50 cut and bruised, as
the result of two accidents on the
Detroit United Railway at Roseville,
near here, according to reports re
ceived tonight.
The men killed were riding in an
automobile when it was struck by an
interurban at a railroad crossing.
They were so mangled, according to
reports, they could not be identified.
The injured persons were passen
gers in a Detroit-Port Huron cv
when it hit an open switch nnd crash
ed into a power house. Their injuries
were not believed serious.
THE WEATHER
TAMPER ATV RES.
FEB. 17— 4 a. m 39
2 p. <1 5 a. m 39
3 p. m 42 ft a. m 39
4 p. xu 43 7 a. m 39
5 p. m 42 s a. in...••••. 40
6 p. m 42 9 a. m 40
7 p. m..••>••.42 10 a. m..••••••<!
8 p. m.••••••. 42 11 a. ..43
9 p. m 12 12 noon 45
10 p. in... 42 1 p. n>...•••••47
11 p. ni 42 2 p. m....«...49
12 midnight... .41 3p. m 50
FEB. 18— 4 p. 53
1 a. m 40 6 p. in. .56
2 a. m.. 39 6 p. m........ 54
3 a- m 38 7 p. m 52
FORKCAST
East and Weat Texas: Partly cloudy
Sunday. Warmer In Southwest.
HOME WBATHKR FOR TOURISTS.
Chicago: Temperature. 18: clear: 22-
mile wind from the northwest: lowest
temperature in the last 24 hours, I;
highest, 18.
KnnMM City: Temperature, 28; clear;
14-mile wind from the north; lowest
temperature tn the last 24 hours, 18;
highest. 28.
New York: Temperature, 26; clear; 10-
mile wind from the west; lowest tem
perature in the last 24 hours, 12; high
est. 26.
St. Louis: Temperature. 28: clear; 18-
mlle wind from the northeast: lowest
temperature in the last 24 hours. 20;
highest. 28.
Temperature. 32; cloudy;
leas than 10-mlle wind from the north:
lowest temperature In the last 24 hours,
18; highest, 38.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1923. -SIXTY-FOUR PAGES.
LOVE TRAIL
IS TRACED
IN MURDER
Mystery Woman, Wielder
of Stiletto, 1$
Sought
WIFE WANTED DIVORCE
Remington’s Gay Week
end Parties Inves
tigated.
WHO IS HIS SLAYER?
Beautiful Woman Often
Seen in Engineer’s
Company.
Los Angeles. Cal.. Feb. 17.—A mys
tery woman, whose slender s’Jctto
ended the life of Earl Remington, avia
tor and wealthy clubman, was being
sought tonight by police.
The “love trails” of the dead man
are being traced by police, who arc
convinced that hatred and jealousy
were responsible for the murder.
A special effort is being made to
trace his whereabouts on the day of
th* murder. He had planned to go to
his romantic Rincon ranch near Chino
« that day, but telephoned his em
ployes there that he would be unable
to make it.
His whereabouts bef.re he returned
at midnight, to be accosted by bis un
known assailant, one of them a wom
an, is the problem which the police are
trying to solve.
Who Were Womea-Eriends?
Remington was known to be dose
mouthed about bis personal affairs.
He had women friends—but no one
knew just who they were. His wife,
Mrs. Virginia Remington, was too po
lite to ask him, she admitted, although
she knew he was associating with
other women. ,
A few weeks before his death she
had taken steps looking to a divorce
and had consulted an attorney with
the intention, it is understood, of mak
ing charges of infidelity.
Mrs. Remington is beautiful, a so
ciety leader and charity worker noted
for her bizaare entertainments. Only
a few weeks ago she was the sensa
tion of the bachelors’ ball, the most
brilliant event of the social season.
At another time she rented a road
house and ran it for society card
games. The proceeds went to charity.
An autopsy performed today re
vealed that Remington had received a
fatal wound from a charge of fine shot
fired from a gun shot at dose range,
and had also been stabbed by a stiletto
in the heart 'as he was staggering
from the wound.
The identity of tbe persons who con
cealed themselves behind a tree in the
yaad until he drove home, then accost
e*>im. ended his life and left with
out touching his jewelry or money is a
deep mystery.
Abandon Business Quarrel.
Police tonight had practically dis
carded the theory that he might have
been killed following a business quar
rel. He had business enemies and
business quarrels, but these are not
belltved to have been of a sort to in
cite murder.
Police are still investigating one
man who was very bitter over the loss
of his money, for which he blamed
Remington. They are also investigat
ing a rancher near Chino, with whom
Remington had a dispute over a water
right, but neither of these theories are
being regarded as the correct ones by
the police, although no angle is being
overlooked.
Remington, it is known, was fre
quently seen in company with a beau
tiful woman at his Rincon ranch.
Other women, too. were members of
the gav week end parties there. The
identity of this circle of friends is be
ing investigated, for the police believe
that some one of the group knows the
motive for the murder —and probably
wielded the fatal stiletto herself.
‘Talk Title Talk’
9
Hundreds of
Dollars
To be awarded to
best “Talkers”
For particulars see page 7-a.
Gloria Morgan to Wed Vanderbilt
Of great interest to society is the approaching marriage of Gloria Mor
gan (nbovel. daughter of the American <■ maul-general at Brussel’, and Regi
nald Vanderbilt. Miss Morgan is under 20 and Vanderbilt is 43.
TUTENKHAMEN DIED AT
EARLY AGE B’JT HE WAS
ALL ‘FIXED FOR HEAVEN.’
Unfinished Decorations on Inner Chamber Indicate
Premature Death Before Time Chosen for Com
pletion of the Tomb, But, Such A« It Was,
Followers Sealed It Up and Provided Oars
to Row On Celestial Waters.
Luxor. Egypt. Feb. 17.—Tutenk
hanien. lord of all Egypt 3000 years
ago. died at an early age. experts
who viewed the Pharaoh’s sacrophagus
believed tonight.
The mural decorations in the inner
chamber to which Lord Cnrnavon and
Howard Carter penetrated yesterday
were found upon examination today
to be unfinished. This leads to be
lief that the tomb the king picked out
for himself was in the course of
completion—which required many
years—when Tutenkhamen died pre
maturely.
When an Egyptian ruler died his
followers believed he would need
many things in heaven, such ns tables,
couches, food, clothing, oars with
which to row on the celestial waters
—everything, in fact, which he made
use of on earth.
Naturally the objects selected to go
along to the next world with Tutenk
hatnen were the finest procurable
3000 years ago. ’ Their splendor is
unsurpassed: many of the funeral
trappings defy duplication. The
artisans' secrets are no longer known.
Belgian Queen There.
Magnificent jewels arc among the
additional discoveries reported by
those who entered the inner chamber
this afternoon. .
Tomorrow, with ceremony, the offi
cial opening will take place in the
formal entry to the shrine of the king
of 30 centuries ago.
The queen of the Belgians, here
incognito; lord Allenby and persons
prominent in European and Ameri
can society, will go out to the Valley
of the Kings for the occasion.
They will enter tbe inner room,
whore he lies in the innermost of a
series of concentric boxes, just as he
was locked away by his followers
after an elaborate funeral ceremony,
more than 3000 years ago.
Tutenkhamen lies undisturbed by the
excavators. It may be some time
still before the mummy can be brought
out, for the priceless shrines that
cover the inner case muse be treated
with extreme carr. The heat will
make work impossible until autumn
comes on in a Mr weeks.
Saved From Bandits.
The relief of the excavators at find
ing evidence that the sepulchre of the
nncient monarch had escaped viola
tion nt the hands of Nile robbers who
pillaged the outer tomb is boundless.
The bolted doors and locks on the
concentric shrines gave evidence that
none had entered the final room that
holds the sarcophagus. Treasures of
inestimably value were added to the
store gathered by the excavators when
the funeral furniture and outfits
placed about the sarcophagus by the
Pharaoh's mourners were discovered.
The arrangements within the inner
tomb are such that the visitors, in
cluding the queen of Belgians, who
will be invited to take a look at the
sarcophagus, will bo greatly cramped
for ease, and will be able to proceed
only single file around the gorgeous
blue and gold canopy that extends
nearly to each wall. They will see
little of the inner shrines, but further
chambers, hewn out of solid rock and
doors, lies exposed, and in this are
heaped unimaginable hoards of treas
ures.
GIRL ESCAPES POLICE
Elevcn-Ycar-Old Shoplifter Sneaks
Out «f Headquarters and Rnns.
An eleven-year-old girl caught shop
lifting in a 5 and 10 ceat store with
her pockets full of trinkets escaped
from police headquarters Saturday
afternoon after refusing!to tell offic
ers who she was or whdre she lived.
Detectives decided to play a “waiting
game” with her and placed her in a
chair in the office. During a few
moment's absence by the'sergeant she
walked to the door and escaped. Of
ficers saw her running toward Mar
ket street and gave chase but she soon
disappeared in the crowds.
Two women were eaught by Detec
tive Jack Lyons and Patrolman Black
in a West Houston' street department
store and approximately. $5O worth of
goods recovered. Detectives said that
the women had made 'the statement
that they had just come from Mexico.
Neither would tell any information
about themselves.
STILL COLD UP NORTH
No Break in Blizzard Until Tuesday,
Chicago Predicts.
Chicago, 111.. Feb. 17.—N0 break in
the almost nation-wide cold snap will
be felt until Tuesday, it was an
nounced by official weather prophets
tonight.
Icy blasts and blizzards continued
ramimnt, with the mercury hovering
around zero generally. This condi
tion will prevail over Sunday and pos
sibly Monday, the weather bureau
stated.
The Northwest felt the cold pinch
hardest, with temperatures well below
zero mark. Great Lakes steamers
were held in the ice at various lake
ports aud train service was hampered
by snowdrifts.
The western cold ware wilt reach
out tonight and include some south
ern points in its grip, it was official
ly predicted.
Chicago was fair and cold tonight
following a tempest of snow, with no
prospect of warmer weather before
Tuesday.
Has Chanse to Life.
Beaumont. Tex., Feb. 17.—Willard
Leiclit, 16. lies in a hospital fighting
for his life tonight, with an fifty-fifty
chance of success, acccortling to phy
sicians. He shot himself in tbe abdo
men Saturday afternoon while firing
cartridges from an improvised gun—
a piece of pipe. The bullet passed
upward through his lung and lodged
in the ceiling.
SOFT DRINK
KING SUED
BY BEAUTY
Millionaire Candler’s Con
duct Called “Ruthless
and Wanton.”
BROKE OFF MARRIAGE
Writes That Two Men Vis
ited Her in Hotel Room,
She Says.
THEN HITCH OCCURS
Declares “Shameful Slan
der” Caused Heavy
Financial Loss.
Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 17.—Asa G. Can
dler Sr., multi-millionaire founder of
the Coca-Cola Company, late today
was made defendant in a suit for
$500,000 damages filed by Mrs. One
aima Deßouchelle, wealthy New Or
leans beauty, in Federal District Court
here. /
The petition i» based on charges of
breach of promise and aggravated Jain
ages, which Mis. Deßouchelle alleged
she suf fere,] when Candler summarily
broke their engagement in 1922.
- Mrs. Deßouchelle gave her legal re
sidence as Nevada, where she obtained
a divorce from her husband in order
to marry Candler. Candler's residence
is given as Dekalb county, Georgia.
According to the suit filed today.
Mrs. Deßouehelic mot Candler in At
lanta, in 19111. when she was attend
ing a national convention of tbe
Daughters of the Confederacy. She
maintains he began paying her atten
tion from their first meeting.
Ripens Into love Match.
He continued to shower her with at
tentions throughout the convention
and. after she left Atlanta, wrote her
ardent letters describing his lonely
condition as a widower here, the peti
tion states. Their friendship ripened
into a love match, the suit stated. In
1922 b® asked for and obtained her
consent to marry him.
But a hitch occurred when Candler
announced his marriage plans to mem
bers of his family, who strenuously
objected. Mrs. Deßouchelle, the suit
states, offered to release him from the
engagement but he refused, urging her
to set an early date for the marriage.
Shortly afterward. Mrs. Deßou
chellc charged, members of the Cand
ler family appeared in New Orleans,
her home’ to investigate her character,
with a view to finding evidence with
which to stop the marriage.
When she informed Candler of the
investigation, she said, he told her that
he did not know of it, and that the re
sults had merely served to confirm his
estimate of her character and make
him feel more secure in the promise of
happiness that his matriage would
bring.
Picked Reno for Wedding.
On his urgent request, the suit
states, they set the wedding date for
September. 1922. in Reno. Nevada.
Wedding announcements were _ pre
pared, an expensive trousseau was or
dered for the bride, and elaborate prep
arations were made for the honeymoon
of the soft drink king and his beauti
ful bride, the suit charges.
Then, out of a clear sky. Mrs. De-
Bouchelle wid, she received a letter
from Candler, dated September 15,
1922. stating that he had changed kis
plans about the marriage and was c*n«
celling the engagement.
The letter declared, according to the
suit, that Candler received reports
from sources that he was bound to be
lieve that two men had. at Mrs. De-
Bouchclle’s solicitation, visited her in
a hotel room on a night in October.
1919. On this ground, he declared,
be was compelled to terminate the en
gagement.
Suffered Slander. She Says.
On receipt of the letter, the suit al
leges. Mrs. Deßouchelle requested
Candler to make public the names of
the two men alleged to have visited
her. but he refused. This refusal, she
charges, caused her to suffer the
stigma of a “shameful slander” and
heavy financial loss.
In filing the suit. Mrs. Deßouchelle
asks for damages resulting from the
breach 'of promise of marriage and to
compensate her for heavy financial
losses which were aggravated, she
says, by Candler's "ruthless and wan
ton conduct” in refusing to furnish,
the names of the men alleged to have
visited her.
OH Stove Explode®.
Ennis. Tex.. Feb. 17.—Damage es
timated at $12,000. was caused by fire
at Alma, five miles south of here,
which destroyed font business house*
late today. An explosion of an oil
stove started the blaz«.
3 CHILDREN CLASP
MOTHER IN DEATH
WHEN HOME BURNS
Father in Critical Condition
After Fight to Save
Family.
Steubenville. Ohio, Feb. 17. — A
mother and her three children per
ished in their burning home here to
night.
The father is in a critical condi
tion. He was taken from the house
unconscious, after making a heroic ef
fort to save his family.
The dead:
MRS. MAX KOROUK, 30.
FREDERICK 5,
HELENE, 3.
MAX JR., 4 months.
Firemen found the mother's body
near the front door, where she had
fallen. Her three children lay with
their arms clasped about her.
An overheated stove started the
blaze.
MORE COMPLAINTS
LODGED AGAINST
MULATTO AT WACO
Three Charges of Criminal
Assaalt Brings Total
to Eight.
Waco. To*.. Feb. IT.—Three more
complaints were filed tonight against
Roy Mitchell, mullatto, already
charged with murdering four while
men and one womgn.
The new complaints charge the
negro with criminal assault upon Mra.
M. L. Hays. May 24. 1922; Miss.
The occupiers are increasing. The
and Mra. Ethol Denecamp, January
19. making eight charges iu all against
Mitchell.
The filing of the assault complaints
by County Attorney C. 8. Farmer
is a sequal to the alleged confession
of Mitchell that he killed five people,
in which the mulatto is said to have
admitted attacks upon the companions
of Harrell Boltou. Grady Skipwortb
nnd W.*E. Holt after the three men
had been killed.
Mitchell is the negro upon whom
McLennan county authorities have
placed the blnnie for the most brutal
scries of attacks and slayings in the
criminal annals of the Southwest.
Mrs. Hays was riding with Harrell
Holton on the Corsicana road, near
Waco, when her escort was killed and
she was outraged; Miss Boucher was
riding with Grady Skipworth in Cam
eron Park when, at Lovers Leap,
young Skipworth was slain, hurled
over the steep precipice, and she be
came the victim of a negro’s lust;
Mrs. Denecamp was riding with W.
E. Holt on the Springfield road when
Holt was shot to death nnd she was
criminally assaulted and killed.
Tonight Roy Mitchell reposes in
the McLennan county jail facing
charges of killing Bolton. Skipworth.
Holt. Mrs. Denecamp and W. P. Dris
kell and of assaulting the three wom
en. The mullatto now refrains from
former philosophical utterances or
conversation of nny Itind. He hns n
Bible with him. spending most of his
time reading it, nnd a vigor
ous appetite. I
Mitchell ha' nlso confessed, accord
ing to Sheriff Leslie Stegall.-that he
killed Mr. nnd Mrs. W. H. Barker
and 13-year-old Homar Turk at Con
cord. near Wnco. little more than n
rear agb. but County Attorney
Farmer and the sheriff nre waiting
for further evidence before filing com
plaints against the negro in connec
tion with this triple murder.
Other complaint' could be filed
against Mitchell, the rountv attorney
nointed out tonight, since Mitchell in
his purported confession is' sajd by
officers to have admitted shooting
another white couple in Cntneron
Pnrk about two weeks before the Bol
ton tragedy, nnd he also is said to
have confessed to criminally assault
ing n negro woman.
“We’ve got enough charge* against
Mitchell now.” said Farmer.
Monday the Jure commission meet'
ta select tbe grand inry. which i' ex
r>ectcd to take tin Mitchell’s machina
tinns ahead of othe- cases. The jurors
ar* to he chosen bv the commission
will assemble Mareh 5 to hear the
court’s charge.
Four Buildinrs Burned.
Javton. Tex- Feb. 17.—Four
buildings, valued at apnroximatelv
$25,000. were destroyed bare by fire
today. The buildings and contents
were partly covered, hr insurance.
Tbe cause of the blgze is undeter
mined. .1
Trained Cockroach
Stands and Recites
Democratic Pledge
Dallas. Tex.. Feb. 17.—A trained
cockroach is the latest addition to
tbe city hall. He for she! is tbe
property of Assistant City Secre
tary Jack Young, who declares he
is not a nature-faker.
The roach, according to Young,
has been known to aland on its
hind legs and repeat the !>□■<>-
.rat’s- pledge. It also believes in
lower taxes and more improve
ments.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WET SPOTS
EVAPORATE
AT CAPITAL
5000 Gallons of Liquor
and Scores of Stills
Seized.
HOME OF PROHIBITION
Bonds Totaling $50,000
Already Furnished for
Releases.
ASHER’S WORK AGAIN
Even Mother Didn't Know
Slick Dry Sleuth in
Disguise.
Washington. D. C., Feb. 17.—Led
by J. L. Asher, prohibition bureau
king of disguises, federal agents and
local police today staged the second
spectacular raid of their determined
campaign to dry up the nation's cap
ital.
The prohibition dragnet, cleverly
woven by the genius of Asher, result
ed in the arrest of nearly 75 per
sons on charges of bootlegfi ng. the
confiscation of about 50CC gallon!
of illicit liquor and the seizure of a
score of stillls.
At an early hour tonight, bonds
totaling about ssO.ikKt had been fur
nished for release of the alleged boot
leggers.
Determined to clean up Washing
ton, “tbe home of prohibition" and
tbe seat of the national enforcement
agency, before making a concerted
effort to dry up other cities through
out the country, the prohibition bu
reau believes its purpose is near ac
complishment.
Sahara on Fotomac.
The nation's capital as the result
of tbe raid today and the similar
ones a few weeks ago, in which about
60 persons were arrested, will be
made one of ,the dryest cities in the
country, officials believed.
Today’s raid, like the first one,
took the bootleggers completely by
surpri*.
It was made possible by the clever
work of Asher in collecting evidence
and ferreting out bootlegger haunts
by means of his disguises.
Almost single handed Asher, by
using tactics that read like the fic
tion of Nick Carter, is dry ing up the
nation's capital.
Disguised as a colonel, apartment
house janitor, ash man. piano tuner,
laundry wagon driver, a garbage col
lector. an ice man and a bootlegger
confidant. Asher collected all the in
formation that made possible the first
raid.
Bootlogger*. Relieved. But—
After this success. Asher mysteri
ously disappeared, the prohibition of
ficers announced.
They said he had gone to I’enn
sylvania and New Jersey to try- his
disguises on bootleggers there, tt ash
ington bootleggers breathed a long
sigh of relief at the announcement.
But apparently Asher just took a
week's vacation to think up some new
tricks to worry .the liquor dealers.
About two weeks ago Asher quietly
slipped back into Washington.
In u few days be was one of tbv
most prosperous oyster and fish ped
dlers in the section of the city where
the bootleggers’ population is most
dense.
As an assistant. Asher trained Pri
vate Bauer. Washington po!:e«nan.
and the pair by their ingenuity are
now outshining New York's famous
prohibition sleuths, Izzy Einstein and
Moe. Smith. Bguer became so apt at
the Nick Carter taeties that, as »
huckster, he sold his mother apples
without her recognizing him.
Bottles of Evidtmce.
Every time Asher and Bauer sold a
fish or an oyster, they pretended to
be very thirsty and soon had spotted
several places where bootleg liquor was
obtainable.
The next disguise was that of huck
sters. Every day tbe two sleuths
brought in many bottles of eridemc
buried beneath their cartload of ap
ples. oranges, bananas and cabbnir
Adding a classical touch to their
work. Asher and Bauer became Greek
salesmen of i>l»ster of pari* statue*
and again obtained more evidence.
An invasion of the Italian quarter
was next decided on.
The two agents were approached b»
an Italian who -might tn convert
them t« the Faneifti , t ,
Not being able to understand Ital
ian they simply stood and shrtMaH
their shoulder* ns the propaganda
’ ngent pleaded his case.
Mettnwhil* a crowd was gatbcrmC
around Asher’s peddler wagon. Fe»r
ing detection nnie-s be <smld an*w* r
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