POLCE WHISKY DEALERS. NEW YORK. October 10.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1921, Page 3

POLCE WHISKY DEALERS. NEW YORK. October 10.

The comic opera situations created bv Hie Piohibition laws arc heing picturesquely illustrated during the investigations which the Federal authorities liav instituted into the accusations made hv the Chicago Chief of Police that one-lmll’ of tin* 1.300 ollicers and men Chicago Police I'oree ate regularly engaged liquor traflio. prom tin* testimony produced during flu* fust day’s hearing it. would seem that puldic-lioiise keepers have lor miniv mouths been making theii puisliases from "police salesmen "bo wcic able to ensure absolute salety from molestation by the federal aut lim it ics hv delivering consignment s of whisky in police wagons ordinarily used for lie* conveyance of prisoners to and from gaol.

For wbiskv deliverixl in this fashion till* police charged an extra ten ol a guinea a ells'*. One police station had been converted into a warehouse Tor the temporary storage ol whisky. Yesterday the Federal prosecutor questioned 13 policeman and at tlm close of the day's proceedings forward i'd to the Chief of Police a list nt 190 •policemen identilied with the liquor tra Hie. Simult a neuuesly In* issued a. statements to fleet that “the ring” of men, chielly members of the police force, had netted profits of nearly C 230 ODD in tin* last few months from their organised violation ol the Prohibition la ws. The statement ends with the predielion of tlio-chief of Police that il lie kept bis promise lo rid Chicago of the uniformed “boot-leggers (liquur-c.u----i j.■ isi lie would lie compelled within a few weeks to dismiss more than half the police force.