INNER RING OF RUM ROW BROKEN
Controls Fleet of 18 Ocean Steamers TWENTY “HIGH-UPS” NOW UNDER ARREST [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday 7 p.m.) NEW ivHK, December 3. In what the Federal authorities describe as the greatest raid on supposed rum importing and distributing forces yet made, in the United States, twenty men wore arrested today and charged with being implicated in an alleged liquor ring. The District Attorney, Mr Buckner, said the organisation controlled eighteen ocean steamers engaged in bringing liquor to Rum Row from foreign ports. Among those arrested is William Dwyer part owner of race tracks in Montreal and Cincinatti, who is head of the ring, according to Mr Buckner.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 9
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