PROHIBITION AGENTS
PROTESTS AGAINST USE OF FIREARMS
OFFICERS CHARGED WITH MURDER
Australian Press Association.
Washingto., June 18.
The situation caused by Prohibition agents’ use of firearms has now become acute and created a major problem for the Administration, with President Hoover admittedly worried over the widespread indignation throughout the United States. Among the latest developments are these. In Georgia a constable is held on a charge of first degree murder for killing a youth he thought possessed liquor. In Arkansas a sheriff, held in a similar case, is placed in the State Penitentiary to protect him from mob fury. In the meantime an even more delicate feature of the situation is the continuous protest from Canadian officials regarding the actions of American agents at the International border. One instance is a report made by Police Chief Proctor, of Sandwich, Ontario, to the Ottawa Government that a Canadian woman in a speed boat was menaced by machine-gun bullets fired by an American coastguard boat in Canadians waters. In another case recently a bullet crashed through a window at Sandwich, narrowly missing a sleeping child. President Hoover to-day strongly deplored the taking of human life. In commenting on recent shootings, he said: “I deeply deplore the killing of any person." The President simultaneously announced that the Treasury Department was making a constant effort to prevent the misuse of arms by border patrols. He declared that what constituted a misuse would be determined by the “orderly processes of the Treasury Department and the Courts." At the same time President Hoover called upon residents in the border cities to co-operate with the Govern--ment to prevent the violation of American laws' by international criminals. “I hope the communities along the border will do their best to end the systematic violations of the laws of the United States by international criminals.” i
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 226, 20 June 1929, Page 11
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