LIQUOR SMUGGLERS
BATTLE WITH COASTGUARD GANGSTERS IN NEW JERSEY New York, March 9. A grim battle between a steel-arm-oured rumboat and a coastguard cutter on Lake Erie ended with the capture of the rumboat and its crew of two men. During the battle the cutter was rammed in the middle and one rumrunner critically wounded when the smugglers’ craft was fired upon by the coastguard with a one-pounder gun and rifles. The captured craft, a 65-foot ship, contained 1600 cases of beer and Whisky. At Hobokeu, New Jersey, a policeman was injured when gangsters within sight of the City Hall swept a street corner with a fusillade of machine-gun bullets. Sawed-off shotgun fire from an automobile swept the city sidewalks, seriously injuring three children and an escaped beer runner who had recently announced his “reformation.” The police captured one gangster, who blew out his brains with his rifle.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 11
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148LIQUOR SMUGGLERS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 11
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