RUM RUNNING IN AMERICA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2101, 9 April 1925, Page 5

RUM RUNNING IN AMERICA.

a -well organised syndicate. aTagnificently appointed OFFICES. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 8.45 a.m.) New York, April 8. The police at Chicago raided the sumptuously furnished offices of a law-breaking syndicate and discovered complete details of the operations in connection with the distribution of liquor and the management of disorderly resorts on a stupendous scale, involving many millions of dollars annually.

The information was obtained from neatly audited ledgers, filing cabinets and other book-keeping devices on the premises, and included the names of hundreds of wealthy liquor customers and saloon keepers with running accounts, the names of disorderly resorts and their inmates, lists of police officers and Government officials who have been brided, also an account of the operations of four great breweries, and liquor deliveries by carloads.

Johnny Torris, an underworld character, is alleged to be at the head of the syndicate, whose magnificently appointetd offices bore the i name of a physician, and contained samples of liquor of every description. The telephone records showed that liquor flowed into headquarters from every known inlet of the United States from coast to coast.