| Show JUDGE CALLS LIQUOR TRAFFIC GREATEST NURSERY OF CRIME Dry Laws Have Brought About Condition Never Before Even Approached in His His- History History His History tory of Jurisprudence Court Says tr BY BV LEI LEE 1 0 R It V RM 1 vI f on of ot The Standard Copyright 1923 1925 by The Th Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated PI Pleas ess Aso lation SAN FRANCISCO Jan 10 10 the thc severest sc indictment as a result of or prohibition ever to emanate from high plans places Ls within the government Itself were wera voiced hero heo this week neck by United Slates Judge S Partridge veteran federal ted ted- eral rAl jurist when In ruling on tho statue of ot a Canadian runt rum rumrunner rumrunner runner he took look to b char char- characterize the tho created create liQuor as ns our greatest nut nui- sery ery of ot crime and j l breeding breed Ing place of ot brazen e both to the government O and its courts Because Became however hoe of ot the opinIon opinion ion lon rendered by Judge In the he captured runner rum-runner easo ase that that the American ov government has nn an International right to seize selzo rOI foreign de mum iuni um runners either Inside or outside the he 16 mlle limit his limit arraIgnment of ot prohibition and I Its effects was as almost entirely lost loot sight Ight of or I Charging that apprehended li II iI- iI liquor e quor law violator ale only a I Ismall small part of ot those engaged In III Inthe Inthe the Illicit traffic and that foreign liquor smuggling ships hips h Ding liln Ing oft oct American shores hores while they send end heir cargoes to land smugglers help to lo S swell Sell ell the lido ot of liw 1 violators ho said ald OUI Our Oui dry laws las law o ha brought about a condition nevi nen never esen en ape ap- approached ap approached In our whole history or of commercial jurisprudence Vio- Vio Violators Vio Violators apprehended run into thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands in III this district alone The Tho result Is congestion of ot our courts making it almost almott Impossible to cope with the situation Delas resulting from the tho 0 overwhelming situation haw havo encouraged 1 other thousands not alone alon In persistent of ot the th Vol law but butIn butIn butin In most brazen and open or of our go government and Its Iti courts This I 1 his disrespect and co tempt for tor law and Government has spread to 10 o alarming proportions Particularly has it grown among the Ignorant and Illiterate of ot oura our r a foreign born population It I Is not too much to ea say ay that hal the resulting I lt illicIt trade traC Ic In liquor Is our greate greatest ot of crime ot of e every cry des Added weight eight must be given Iven to Judge Partridges Partridge's utterances be- be be 1 of ot the tact filet that thousands ot of such cases ha have hale 0 passed through Ills hIs court and that of ot all the federal judges ud es on the coast he Is the th mo most feared among law violator It li Iq accepted as Inevitable b by bootleggers whose tAS cases c cs S c come corn me Into his hi court that or a apica plea of guilt guilty means mean the th heaviest I I penalty the law all allow 0 r 8 both In and imprisonment Among hundreds of ot instances instance In to which Judge Partridge has hai ha sent persons Judge with PO powerful Influences Influence to jail for tor maximum terms lerms sr are aru the tho cases I lof or Pete Pelo McDonouch millionaire ball bond hond broker and underworld orld king and I cracker lire Jim fin Grif Grif- Griffin fin famous prizefighter refer referee e I promoter and political overlord ot of ofSan ofSan San Francisco o s colorful North Beach tach district Under tinder such circumstances It cannot bo be said eald ald that he h Is either prejudiced or Ignorant ot or the facts Apropos Judge Judg Partridges Partridge ruling rul- rul rulIn rul ruling In ing that hit American authorities ha hale the right to 10 pursue puru and nr f ret foreign rum running ships be beyond ond the 16 mlle ren limi-ren- limit ren In the th case of ot the C ru Quadra seized oft orf Islands overal weeks It ago It alread already ha has resulted in ina Ina Ina a change or of o policy In coping with rune rum smuggling on the Pacific COlSt Brien Briefly summarized Judge Partridge held that j of whether hother the Quadra was WIlB wa seized within the supposed ono one hour steaming distance ot of o American shores or beyond such tuch distance the United States State had the th right lIght under both International maritime law and the th 1924 1 2 treaty with Great t Britain to seize cize her an an- an any anywhere where hero on tho rho high seas teas Judge Partridge further points out that not only Is the th treaty bet between een Great Britain and the tho United States made mad My 26 1924 1 designed to frustrate such traffic traffic fic fit but Jut that the supreme court ot of Canada itself has held that Irrespective 0 of ot any treaty anY nation nallon has a right under International la law to pursue and take be- be beyond be lond b-lond yond ond the limps limits limit of ot her shores any vessel essel that has line violated or Is I charged with Ith violating na- na nation nation na nations tion s B laws n |
