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Charlevoix County Herald
East Jordan, Charlevoix County, Michigan
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In New York, internal revenue agent Harold B. Dobbs followed a tipsy cat to a saloon at Sixth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street, discovering 50 gallons of alcohol and arresting proprietor Thomas Fitzgerald and bartender Hugh Leckkey for violating the prohibition amendment.
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New York Revenue Officers Trail Inebriated "Tom" to the Source of Supply.
New York.-Confounding those who say cats will not drink hard liquor. Harold B. Dobbs, internal revenue agent, avers that a tipsy "Tom" reeling along the street led him and brother officers to a cache of 50 gallons of alcohol and other intoxicating beverages in the cellar of a saloon at Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth street.
In the place, according to Dobbs, were several more cats, and all hilarious. Moreover, there was a determined effort made by each cat to obtain a share of a dark brown liquid that had leaked from an overturned demijohn on the floor.
Thomas Fitzgerald, proprietor of the saloon, and his bartender, Hugh Leckkey, were arrested by Dobbs and charged with violating the prohibition amendment.
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thomas fitzgerald and hugh leckkey were arrested and charged with violating the prohibition amendment.
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A tipsy cat led internal revenue agent Harold B. Dobbs and other officers to a cache of 50 gallons of alcohol and other intoxicating beverages in the cellar of a saloon at Sixth avenue and Forty-fourth street, where several more cats were found hilarious and trying to drink leaked liquid from an overturned demijohn.