SMUGGLING PLOT.
BEER IN AMERICA. INSOLENCE OF LAW BREAKERS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 8. A telegram from Philadelphia says a. renewal of the anti-saloon crusade recently commenced under the direction of General Smedley Butler disclosed a beer smuggling plot, showing the bootleggers’ remarkable resources in enlisting the aid of a. number of policemen, who used General Butler’s official motor to effect the removal of the socalled high-powered beer from a brewery. Genera] Butler’s bright red vehicle, wearing the municipal seal, bad been regularly kept in a garage near the brewery, whence issued five giant motor trucks laden with beer. These proceeded down the main thoroughfare, ostensibly convoyed by General Butler's automobile, in. which sat a figure dressed to resemble General Butler. The trucks were escorted to the outskirts of the town, whence the policemen, returned to. the city. The plot was discovered through confessions following the apprehension of two trucks on a suburban highway.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 5
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