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Show 1 f I m t Confiscated Liquor I By Frederic J. Ha skin. , WASHINGTON". Sept, 26. How woulfl you !ike to liave the responsibili:y ci guarding JlOO.OvO worth of liquor, wh'.ch you were not allowed to use or dispose , of in &nv wav? That is the situation of Edwr.rd B. Hesse, chief clerk of the "Washington police force and guardian angel of all tiie liquor which ihe capita' cops take away j from the bootleggers and others, i This situation in Washington is inter-j inter-j esting because it is one that may tecome , general. Of course, this liquor in Wash-j Wash-j incion was confiscated under the rteed amendment, which applies to the District of Columbia aione. The framers of tn-s law failed to provide any method for the disposal of confiscated liquor. But the framers of the national law. which goes into effect next January, did no better. An official of the internal revenue department de-partment was asked how liquor conns- i cated under this law can be disposed of i without violating the law, and he said . he did not know, unless the liquor was destroyed. But to destroy It would Ve ; an enormous economic waste. It would j mean pouring millions of dollars in alcohol alco-hol down sewers. Mr. Hesse does not want to do this with . the $iA000 worth thai has fallen to his , care, and he does not know what eie to do with it. The collection contains numerous brands of liquor. There is cheap, violent bootlegging "likker." and there are also bon which would bring fancy prices if placed upon the market. It is all bottled in half -pints, pints and quarts. yr. Hesse says he never saw so much tooze at any one time before, even in the wettest wet-test days of the capital. A number of persons from whom liquor was taken contend that it was taken away from them illegally, ar.d they have entered suits against, the police clerk to compel hi in to return it. These cases are now pending. But a Jaree part of the liquor wiil never be claimed by the persons per-sons mostly bootleggers from whom it was taken. " It has become the embarrassing embarras-sing property of the police department. Mr. Hesse is very much opposed to destroying de-stroying the liquor by emptying it into the Potomac, as he fec'.s that this would be a wilful waste of som.eth,rg that could be made use of for medic; n:al or scientific purposes. The alcohol a:one is worth much money and couid be used industrially. in-dustrially. Several of the hoe pita Is in i he District of Columbia have asked for a supply of 'he liquor, but the i a w does not permit the clerk to dispose of -it in that fashion. Xot only the hospitals, but individuals as well, have tried to get some of this collection to use for mc-dicinial purposes. The other flay a colored woman of middle mid-dle age calitd at one of the police precincts pre-cincts and said that her son was very ill with "flu." the explained that when he had it a year ago the only tiling that helped him was whisky, and that the did not have the money to buy whisky now. She asked the ofneer in charge of the pohce station if he would give her just one good dope for her ton from the confiscated con-fiscated SUPp;V. Some Washington physicians agree with this colored woman that good whisky is the only thing that will cure imiuenza. Thc-y are strongly advocating that the liquor In the hands of the police be placed at the disposal "of the medical fraternity for their patients in case of a return of "flu" this fail as predicted by Dr. Blue, head of the United States puMlc l.ea.th servlr-e. These physicians claim that hquor was the only tiling that gave rel.ef to their pa. ients during the epidemic a year ao. and now the poor ptop-.e. who did not have money to stock up before the country went dry. will have a hard time getting l.quor for medicinal purposes. j J h:s l.r(-.:or in t.e po?s-"s?:on 0" t::e police po-lice has Yc-?n pi line v.p ever since the. national cnpitai went-dry on Octoter SI, 1:17, uTt'Kr tie terms of the tf.ieppard law. This act made it possible for an. individual to brine honor into the Dis- . trict for J-.is own j ersonai use, and u:;der 1 tat heading a great quantity of spirits . wag bronsht in; It -was very difneuit for ; the police- under the P'lepperd law to pet j evidence aeainst anyone doing- an iileeal j importing trade, as invariably the excise j was that the liquor was heine brought in j from Faltimore and otht-r near-by wet I towns for personal use. Tiie pnlk-e made several arrests un.ier this law, tut they soon cave up trying to prevent importations, because the courts would not con K t. For example, j a colore! man was arrested by the police on the highway le.iduig into Wash.: niton from P.al tmiore with. Ih'O half -pints of liquor in his po?op;on. -ie asserted that it was for his own u but the police po-lice refused to bclie e tills when they learned j -. e had not been w o : k i r. g and. didn't have enough m.on.c y to tuy s.: ch , a Urge quantity of liquor for hiniself. This ca.se was tried, lut the police were unablo to get a conviction. Tho police have been getting better re-suits re-suits with their cases s i n e 1 1 : e R e c d bone-d ry law went into effect here last February. This law prohibits the importation im-portation of honor into the Pis: net for any purpose o:h-r than medicinal, scientific scien-tific or sacramental. Indcr this law the j police havf arretted scores of bootleggers ; and sent them up for violation of the law. Some ingenious met hods have bt-en adopted by Ntotleeeors to pet by the police po-lice with their wrm-s. Thc-e bon-.b-Lrcers worked out of Faltiniore before the country coun-try went dry, and the police wore stationed sta-tioned ftlonsr the highways lfahiiiie from that city Into the 1 Ms: rict. It was not an easy matter to get through the blockade. block-ade. One story is told of a Baltimore furniture furni-ture firm which shinned a trnckload of furniture to Washington. The Washington Washing-ton !an who boucht the furniture ft '.so toucht a supply of liquor in Ialtimore. worth almost 51000, and had it concealed In the drawers of the furmture. In tome way the police heard of the scheme ami coruscated tho li-juor and furniture iust as the trii'-k entere-1 the P:stri-t. It row forms part of the eohrot'on reposlnc, seem se-em elv in the m::r; Sr.'l Muhdint:. Poot'e irlnc, u'oriinu to th.o police, bis been a hi!:ly pron t uble business. ; Tuey have bren told t h:i t one co'nved man has made nearly ?Pi''V s.nce Wash-j Wash-j Inpton went dry two yeurs aero. Jut thev have been unsueersfnl in tiieir rfi'ort to pet evidence- aeainst him. One police ofllcer sahl: "We pot susnicious when w( foo it colored man. who a few years n co-was co-was a Inlorcr, riding Hronnd Iti a linmn-flnf linmn-flnf or pfvrn-pas!en.eer ton vine our of h's own. Tliei e is inst one tb.iru: for us to Fuspeot that lie made the money to buy tho car from boot 'oc clusr." One colored man rerrnt 1 y arrest ri1 bv the polico nd-mittfd nd-mittfd that it was n poor day for him if lie did not make :.: Th nr.lirr s:y tint the boo; v-':er? cct from tn a or- rt. and then don t rive the pnrrvnser b.juor tba! ;s u to drink. Case have be,-i njorted to the pohee Of beo;lr:;-ers s-lMmr t--a, vine-Mr. ( olored war-T nil T.-:o'is oi'-'.-r ii-riv. tieivj tblt l.k- bke bo-u'e. Vot of the transactiiM1?; are earrirj mi in the ,brk. ami tho buyer d."es not b,-ie a ch:i;iee V examine the contents of the be:tl unMl th' Illicit Honor dea'er is out of s'r lit . Tbpp hootlnrcers, when trapped bv the poPoo, think up some humoro;s excuse-. One you r.c rolored wonvi fi , who t ramrht with thirt v h:il f-pint on n t va ;n that pulled into W.n shine fnn from Pain-more, Pain-more, explained to the police court bnUo t tin t 5he w:i s brinrin the p. uu' homo for p'ek members of her LimUv. When nd;rd wbv it lo.tk so much Honor to (;"-feet (;"-feet ji n:r she s.i id slir r pe,-; f. of b'T iieinhbors to i:et y'.rU, ni-d :inteJ to be In ;i posil Son to cai c I'uni. Another eoor.-1 nvm, -whe-i e;vu:bt with a 1: Tl.- e S'.'P11! v of w e1 r- o -,p- k , j, 1b if be h.-id 1 -h' t; bi I-.' .-,,, i,,r "-.l : ih . o;i- ' p,r p.- ( . |