WITNESSES MURDERED
“RACKETEER” TRIAL TERRORISM. NEW YORK, July 1. That the. four persons who were to have given evidence at the forthcoming trial of “Waxey” Gordon, the notorious “racketeer,” have been murdered, was the statement made to-day by ths U.S. Attorney, in explaining why the Government refused to accede to a motion by Gordon’s counsel tor a bill giving particulars of the trial. "The Government does not dare supply the bill,” the Attorney declared, “as wo do .not know who would be left, alive to testify.” “Waxey” Gordon, New York’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” who is on a bail of £20,000, is charged with income-tax evasions amounting to £lOO,OOO,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 7
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109WITNESSES MURDERED Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 7
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