AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19046, 17 December 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

SMUGGLING CHEISTMAS LIQUOR. PIRATE SHIPS ACTIVE, Press Association—By Telegraph—CopyrfcjSit NEW YORK, December 14. The prohibition officers find unexpected assistance in preventing the landing of the Christmas liquor from the twelve-mile limit from pirates, who are attacking the liquor ships anchored off the coast and robbing the captains of money and cargoes. Several gun fights are unofficially reported. On land bootleggers are also subjected to highway robberies on the Canadian border.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AN OHIO SCANDAL. PROMINENT CITIZEN INDICTED. NEW YORK, December 14, (Received Dec. 16, at 5.5 p.m.) The New York Times’s correspondent at Tiffin, Ohio, telegraphs that the Mayor and 24 other prominent citizens of this city have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury and charged with conspiracy to manufactnre and sell liquor. The group’s activities were spread over a large territory, and involved annual business believed to exceed a million dollars. It continued to operate unmolested through the Police Department's inactivity, and as a result of the Mayor’s influence. Several convivial parties, however, were given bv the group, and resulted m a scandal. The Federal Grand Jury, after investigating the case for three months, ultimately returned the indictments. —A. and N.Z. Cable.