ARRESTED TWICE IN ONE DAY.
Italian Saloonkeeper Persisted in
Keeping the Lid Off.
Twice in one day was Filippe Spalitto, an Italian saloonkeeper, arrested on a charge of "lid-lifting," in his saloon at 1027 East Fifth street.
Saturday night a woman went to police headquarters and told Lieutenant Michael J. Kennedy that the "lid" would likely be unscrewed in Spalitto's place yesterday.
Harry Arthur and John R. McCall were sent to watch the place. They avoided four lookouts who were guarding the saloon, and in one hour saw thirty men and women enter and leave. Some of the women carried away beer under their aprons. After watching two hours the officers "rushed" the place. They found seven men and two women there. Arthur went to the basement. There he saw an arm extending a bottle of beer to a customer. He caught the extended arm and drew the man attached thereto over the bar. The possessor of the "lid-lifting" arm was Spalitto. This happened in the morning.
After Spalitto was taken to the police station and released on a $51 bond reports came that the place was still doing business. Last night Sergeant Peter McCosgrove and Patrolmen Michael Mullane and Gallagher Boyd went there. They got by the lookouts and saw the Italian selling beer to three negroes. He was again taken to the police station and again released on $51 bond.
