OREGON LIQUOR WAR
* MOONSHINER KILLS OFFICER PORTLAND (U.S.A.), August 30. Central Orcgo.i is torn with a liquor war. Two policemen were killed and several citizens were wounded this week. A grey-haired moonshiner named Ray Sutherland is the centre of the trouble. Ho was transporting liquor over a lonely road, when Joe Saunders and Oscar Dtiley, sheriff’s officers, forced him to halt, but ho was quicker on the draw, and killed them both, leaving their bodies ir. the. centre of the highway. A posse raided Sutherland’s house, hut was met by a fusillade, which wounded two of the attackers. They finally captured Sutherland’s son, who said that his father had fled into the timber.
A big party of policemen is following him with a machinc-gun and blood hounds.
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Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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127OREGON LIQUOR WAR Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 9
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