GENERAL CABLES
ILLICIT LIQUOR
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). VANCOUVER, Dec. 9. A startling statement has been made that Boston Jlias now assumed a place second only to Chicago as a vice-cen-tre. It is stated that the illicit liquor traffic at Boston City has, since Prohibition, reached the staggering figures of 12 millions sterling annually. In Boston four thousand “SpeakEasies” and fifteen thousand professional ibo'otlqjggers, .supply the city with ninety thousand gallons of booze weekly, while it is alleged that the policemen in uniform and those driving the police automobiles are active agents in the delivery of “wet” goods. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION. RUGBY, December 9. The House of Commons has agreed to set tip a Select Committe to consider the question of capital punishment in case tried by the Civil Courts in time of peace, and to report whether another penalty, and, if so, of what nature, should be substituted for the sentence o'f death in such cases where that sentence is now prescribed by law.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1929, Page 6
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