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' TRICKS OF RUM RUNNERS. CODE IN BEDTIME STORIES. BY CABLE— EEES3 ASSOCIATION-COP YRipHT ‘(Received Jan. 22, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 21. As an instance of the ingenuity of bootleggers in hoodwinking the officials the following instance is cited. Roy Olmstead, formerly chief prohibition officer at Seattle, two years ago turned bootlegger. He made his fortune, becoming a rum king on the Pacific Coast. His successors in the Government service assigned their best woman detective to entrap Olmstead. She succeeded so completely that she married him and turned over all official secrets to him. The Government, which was chasing him on account of 'his alleged liquor imports, allowed him a wireless broadcasting license, for he had gained a great reputation along the coast for reading bedtime stories to children.
Court proceedings showed that his wife was reading into the bedtime stories code messages from her husband to his rum-running ships, operating between British Columbia and American cities. When the radio announced that “Peter. Rabbit ran into the forest,” it meant that the American revenue cutter .was leaving Seattle next morning on a scouting expedition. —Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 5
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192HOODWINKED Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 5
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