RUM RUNNER EXECUTED
LEFT A MILLION DOLLARS.
DANGEROUS SEA CRIMINAL. HIS ADVICE TO HIS FAMILY. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Oopyrignt.) —United Service). Received 9.35 a.m. to-dav. MIAMI, Aug. 17. James Horace Alderman, king of rumrunners of the Florida coast-, and regarded as the most desperate sea criminal of modern times in America, was hanged to-day. About a year ago he killed two coastguards and a- Federal secret service man. He captured a coastguard patrol boat, and almost succeeded in blowing it to fragments before he was captured. Alderman, who- is the only rumrunner- ever executed in Uncle Sam’s coast warfare. left- 1,000,000 dollars to his family with this note: “Remember that- the violation of the law does not get you anything but trouble. I am ready to pay.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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