SEARCHING A HEARSE
AMERICA’S PROHIBITION LAWS. ' A now horror was added recently to tho many evils attending the enforcement of Prohibition. As a funeral procession with the body of James Puller, of Weehawken, Now Jersey, was passing through the town of Milford (Conn?), on its way to Litchfield Cemetery, it was stopped by James Maher, Chief of Police. Majier, who had received information that the funeral was a mock one, insisted on the coffin being removed from the hearse. This waa done in spite of the agonised protests of the widow, who fainted as the police seized the coffin and began a drastic search among the wreaths for concealed liquor. All the mourners underwent a rigid physical examination on the supposition that they were unlawfully transporting whisky. Their motor oars were also ransacked. Not until they had proved their innocence was the cortege allowed to proceed with “apologies” from the Chief of Police.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19041, 11 December 1923, Page 7
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153SEARCHING A HEARSE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19041, 11 December 1923, Page 7
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