RUM PIRATES.
RAIDS BY BOOTLEGGERS. BY GABL1 —FRIES ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 11. Following the report from Halifax that the French steamer Mulhouse was raided by rum pirates off the New .Jersey coast two weeks ago, prohibition officials received word that a second ship was boarded by pirates, who killed the captain and threw his body overhoard. The identity of the steamer is not revealed, hut she wAs of foreign registration. The raids are directed by one of the biggest bootlegger’s in the country, in retaliation for the cutting of rum prices by foreign ships, it i s stated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 July 1924, Page 5
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