Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1923, Page 25

BLOW TO DRY LA SEEN N VERDICT 000 Liguor Fraud Surprise to Federal Officials. ' WY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Prohibition enforcement, according to high federal officials, has suffered a severo blow in the acquittal at New (L. Hart and The former fed- and those ! rged with the government | of | cation wil permits. The ac- them were gatinz $10.000.000. partment of Justic R Homer 1. Kitt Co. 1330 G " Unusual Piano Values COME EARLY! Wany ‘pianos and us player in ex- good pianos have come to <change during our Knabe Ampico i and small apartment grand cam- paign. These instruments Washington homes. Tittle, and a 2 owing ‘o made for many of them. These instruments cairy our guar- 2 exchange priv- | antee and ou are amply pro- USED PLAYERS Solo Concerto. . Emerson Lockwood Chickering Haines Story & Clark. . Haines Bros.. . . Hampton Artistone Foster Solo Concerto. . J. H. Williams . . tory & Clark CONVENIENT TERMS USED PIANOS J. C. Fischer. .. Hardman .....$175 Ludwig .......$235 E. Gabler. ... ... .$210 Stieff $310 Stuttz & Bauer.$175 Kohler & Camp- bell , Davies & Son. . McEwen .. ... Regent ..... H. P. Nelson. Bailey 175 Smith & Barnes. $185 . §195 $ (Coren winrs ) Homer L. Kitt Co. 1330 G N. W. Washington’s Complete Masic Store gomprehensive prosecution of frregu- larities in the enforcement system so far instituted. Anxious for Conviction. The government was anxlous for a conviction, because Hart's indictment typified the Department of Justice's policy to tackle vigorously every de- The policy that nothing {press it to a conelusion | springs from the be is so surely designed to bring pro- ! hibition into popular disrepute as un- punished malfeasance within the en- forcement sy tected case of official crookedness and | | were indicted in January, 1922. The case against them was ably prepared and vigorously presented. Although the trial lasted four weeks, and the United States submitted voluminous testimony, the jury deliberated less than two hours before bringing in a | verdict of not guilty There has just begun at phin g t Philadel- | ¢ an al'most similar prosecution ainst Mec tion dlrector forty or fifty ¢ charged. broadly, with the Whibi- | Years in the l‘\\.l)' robbery GET 15 YEARS. Negro Sentenced on Conviction in| JB 4y rial G round Three Hold-Ups. Division 1. penitent Harrell three cases of “ho rred last month are | from some of the most prominent Most of them | are of finer makes and used but | allowances | | redations—falsification of liguor with Without ai t s in the penitentiary was justice or oth cislon by whic | fendants were . federal offi. clals consider that the acquittal|of the New York acquittal, there are oo oo graphically illustrates the difficulty |some misgivings in Washington as to | P00k containing $200 fro of punishing thoss indicted as prohi- | the result, | May 16, 1921. Jordan ha bition malefuctors in an atmosphere| Public opinion in “wet” communi- | at Atlant like New York, where the Volstead |ties, rather than shortcomings upon | .0 IR oAt L law is unpopular. the part of federal judges, districtat- | Ardie Payne, colored, convicted o Another contributory factor in the|torneys or juries, is held re e | dope peddling, was sent to the peni- case was the high political connec-|at Washington ary for years. tions of the principal defendants. |riages of justice Wilino g Hart was an upstate republican poli- |federal authoriti ium tician from Binghamton. Willlam A. [tal typifies. Citizens in all parts of | convicted of = Orr, one of his chief lleutenants in|the country are said not yet to re- |ing the death of Walter 15 th i former | gard it as pa ic dut |G es 8. W private [to see that timent . 4s produces jurie: ninent in Bronx |to convict in The defendants |there is prima-facie evidence of guilt e entence imposed on Charles Jor- light | dan, colored, who snatched a pocket- 1 a woman done time . colored, recently Owen Mu - democratic cfrcles. ted self-defs Corner Ninth and F Streets N. W. GUNN SECTIONAL BOOKCASE, in Mahog- any, Oak or Fumed Oal: finish; consists of one top, one base. two scc- tions 914 inches high; and two sections 1114 inches high; stacked as shoun QLS ‘“ALASKA” REFRIGERATORS: famous for their dura- bility and scientific construction; very good-looking as well. Top-icer Refrigera- tor. with a capacity for 30 pounds of ice. Three-compartment refrigerator, with a a0-pound ice capacily. $19.75 . 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