FUNERAL HELD UP
HEW PROHIBITION HORROR
NEW YORK, October 18,
A new horror was added yesterday to the many evils attending the enforcement of Prohibition.
As a funeral procession with the body of James Fuller, of Weehawken, New Jersey, was passing through the town of Milford (Conn.), on its way to Litchfield Cemetery, it was stopped by James Maher, Chief of Police. Maher, who had received information that the funeral was a mock one, insisted on the coffin being removed Loin the hearse. This was done in spite of the agonised protests of the widow, who fainted as the police seized the coffin and began a drastic search, among the wreaths for concealed liquor. All the mourners underwent a rigid physical examination on the supposition that they were unlawfully transporting whisky. Their motor cars were also ransacked.
Not until they had proved their innocence was the cortege allowed to proceed with “apologies" from the Chic! of Police.
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Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 5
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