POLICE METHODS
IN NEW YORK. AGAINST LIQUOR SALOONS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this dnv ai D. a.m.) NEW YORK. Jan. 8. New York’s now and vigorous police commissioner. Grover Whalen, continuing drastic measures to reorganise the Police* Department and it/iieflink has in* deni ally inaugurated a novel era of prohibition enforcement. Wlmlen apparently realising that to close all New York’s saloons, would he a superhuman task. has started a policy of differentiation, .bv auuouiu ing a delcrmination to close down all where liquor is allegedly sold containing wood alcohol and oilier poisons, rendering it unfit for human eonsumution.
Whalen started raids during the night agabist a of list fifty-live saloons given him bv a New York newspaper, which completed an investigation of live hundred. The newspaper declared tin* liquor obtained from fifty-live, showed varying quantities of poisons upon analysis. The police raided a majority and took (lie liquor, arrested the proprietor and in some cases .smashed the saloons and equipment to pieces.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 5
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