Our Multi-Talented Federal Prohibition Agents

On June 17, 1922, the New York Times reported on several raids by Federal prohibition agents. Upstate, agents conducted an undercover operation at the Nikko Inn in Harmon-on-Hudson.

The agents—William McKay, Peter Reager, and Leonard Gallante—posed as entertainers. When the inn's proprietor Charles Hase requested a performance, the undercover officers obliged: "McKay fiddled, Reager sang and Gallante danced." After Hase served them alcohol at $1.50 per drink, they arrested him and waiter Hero Gotow for violating the Volstead Act. Both individuals received $1,000 bail.