LIQUOR RAID

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4

LIQUOR RAID

' 1000 PINTS* OF LIQUOR SEIZED, \ „;...,; ;; : :DENVER, 17th Maroh.^ :' Bighty-threo' persons, nine of th«mi women, were arrested on chargeß of violating the. Prohibition I»tbs in a raid here io-day which Federal officers • de^ clared to be the largest ever undertaken in .Colorado. Promptly at noOn more than one huni dred officers, working1 under the 'direction of Federal Director E. H. M'Clenay nan, swooped down upon the tower buai-L' ness district and' ropmiiijf-house, sectione; gathea'ed '■', in their pjisonerg and seized apprqxiinately 1000 pints of alleged illicit) [liquor.\ ... ,'■ .' '■': ... - , POUR I>ROMINfiNT HOTELS ARE I "V ■..•;.,' , .RAIDED.' ... \ ■ Inclnded among the plaoei where jptis j bners W«e taken were four prominent hotels, twel*^ fbomini-houseS, and "twenty-five 1 floftdTink parlours aid pool-; haiis., „ ■.. / : ::■:-;, >- ;■•, -. j"Some of the Worst bootleggers in <*c West," M'Olehahansaid, including somei old-timers who Had operated in Kansas before the days of National Prohibition,' were among the captured. ; I , Approximately one-third of the prkon-j era were released during the afternoon on bonds ranging from 2000 t0'2500 dolJ .lars. '■;,. ■;..-'. ■ ' • • '. i SEQUEL TO THREE WEEKS'^ j • PREPAB.ATION. . ■ ; M'Clenahan said that the raid was made after, three weeks of preliminary work, during which- evidence-was gather j 'cd. " " ' . ' ■ ' ■ . ' ;■ Appioximately seventy-five of the, .prisoners, unable to aeenre bail, were taken to -the county ,gaol. M'Clenahaq said none of them would be tried before the May term of Court.—San Kanoiscol Chronicle, 18th March, 1^22/ i