HIGH-POWER BEER.
A SMUGGLING PLOT. BREWERY IN GARAGE. NEW YORK, July 9. General Butler, Philadelphia's antiliquor crusader, has unearthed a beersmuggling plot showing the remarkable resourcefulness of the bootleggers. They enlisted the aid. of a number of policemen, who used General Butler's official motor car to efTect the removal of a quantity of "high-powered" beer from a brewery. General Butler's bright red vehicle, bearing the municipal seal, had been regularly kept .in a garage near the brewery. From the latter there issued one day five huge motor trucks laden with beer. The trucks proceeded downi the main thoroughfare apparently escorted by General Rutler's car, in which' sat a figure dressed to resemble the general.
The trucks were escorted to the outskirts of the city by policemen. When the latter returned to the city the plot was discovered through the confessions of the drivers of two of the trucks, who were arrested on a suburban road.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 162, 10 July 1924, Page 5
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