PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.
SERIOUS CHARGES MADE. AA r ASHINGTON, April 7. Federal-Attorney Buckner, in charge of tho prohibition enforcement in New York, testified beforo tho Senate Committee of Inquiry. Ho said: “Fixers’ traffic openly in justice in New York. In the Federal Building, in the course of a year, at least 50,000 bar-tenders, pedlers, waiters and fixers’ pass through tho corridors. Thero is an air of collusion there. I have been told that jurymen are bribed in tho toilets.’’ Senator Reed asked what he meant by “fixers.” Mr Buckner: “I mean those who traffic in justice, those who hang around the corridors of the building and buy jurymen, and influence the memory of witnesses with money.” Mr Buckner declared that if tho right kind of machinery were set up, prohibition migfht be enforced, but with jury trials in such a congested community as New York it was impossible. Tho Police Commissioner was receiving 15,000 complaints of infringement monthly and 8000 prohibition cases were awaiting hearing.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 9 April 1926, Page 7
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