The Triaca Company was a brewery and distributor located in Baltimore, Maryland.
History
editThe Triaca Company was founded in 1882 by Marcello Triaca on 98 Light Street and Camden avenue in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] Triaca gained some national notoriety in 1884 for losing $5,600 to a fellow Italian in an elaborate swindle involving money handling.[2]
With prohibition pending, all distributors were given until January 16, 1920, to sell or export their stocks out of the country.[3] In December 1919, Triaca company president Charles Vincenti shipped thirty-six thousand cases and twelve thousand barrels of whiskey to Bimini. Vincenti was taken by force in boat raid by revenue agents and taken back to Baltimore for trial before the British Colonial Government demanded his return for capture in their territorial waters.[4][5] In 1920, Whiskey was distributed to cooperative households throughout the Baltimore area like the A.T. Caroza Ingleside Mansion in Catonsville. Carozza, a road contractor bought a steamship from the Navy and sued the government to return his 500 case whiskey gift from Vincetti. After agents seized cases of Whiskey, a trial was held against the owners, drivers, salesmen, and holders of the Whisky in 1922.[6] The trial became part of the Triaca Conspiracy, also known as the "Million Dollar Whiskey Conspiracy".[7][8][9][10][11]
Timeline
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- 1882: Company Founded
- 1890: Moved to Light Street & Camden ave
- 1904: Great Baltimore Fire
- 1909: Move to Light and Pratt Street
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ Maryland Comptroller's Office (193). Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury.
- ^ "A Successful swindling game How a Italian Restaurant-keeper lost $5,600". The New York Times. 22 May 1884.
- ^ "Only rum in ships cargo". The Washington Times. 27 December 1919.
- ^ Sally J. Ling. Run the Rum in: South Florida During Prohibition. p. 35.
- ^ "US agents accused of abducting wine man". New York Tribune. 28 March 1920.
- ^ "arrests grow in triaca case". The Washington Herald. 15 August 1920.
- ^ "Loses Liquor Guard Suit". Baltimore Sun. 1 October 1921.
- ^ "NEGRO DRY AGENTS STAGE LIQUOR RAID Colored Operatives Seize 53 Cases Of Whisky And Make Two Arrests. A. T. CAROZZA'S STOCK TAKEN 470 Cases Confiscated After Search Of Tenant House Owned By Him At Ingleside--He Says It Was Gift From Charles J. Vincenti". The Baltimore Sun. 23 May 1920.
- ^ Eric Mills. Chesapeake rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. p. 28.
- ^ "A.T. Carozza loses fight for Whisky". The Baltimore Sun. 8 December 1922.
- ^ United States. Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Through the 1930s. Prohibition Legislation, 1921: Hearings on H.R. 5033 May 12, 13, 16, 17.
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