FATAL ENCOUNTERS
"BOOTLEGGERS" AND POLICE.
(UNITED PRE3S ASSOCIATION.—COPIRWHT.!
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
(Received Bth October, 11.30 a,.m.)
NEW YORK, 7th October. Two fatal encounters between police and liquor smugglers are reported. At Los Angeles five hundred police turned out in an attempt to catdh a motor-car whk* was alleged to be carrying a_party of "bootleggers," who had been hailed by George Christie, a Federal Prohibition officer, whom they shot. The police engaged in a running battle with the motor-car through Hollywood before their quarry escaped. The second case was in Toronto, where the police attacked a motor-boat which was attempting to carry 2500 bottles of whisky to Buffalo. John Gough, son of t'.ie captain of the motor-boat, was shol dead.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 8 October 1923, Page 7
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120FATAL ENCOUNTERS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 8 October 1923, Page 7
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