KING OF BOOTLEGGERS
ANXIOUS TO LEAVE AMERICA. SEQUEL TO DAUGHTER’S. UNHAPPINESS. .'ma* I —JBj XilagraiFh CayjTiabV NEW YORK, April 11. (Received April 13, at 6.5 p.m.) Mike Cusamano, the king ot American bootleggers, desires to leave America, not because oi the severities of the law, which he has been flouting lor several years, but Decause of his ci-year-olcl ciuugtiter s tears. Cusamano was for a long time a prosperous baker and realty agent. He then entered into bootlegging, which netted him in three years a fortune of I,ooo, ecu dollars, but the money could not ury Rosa’s tears when her schoolmates pointed their fingers and sneered, remarking:— “lour pa is the king of bootleggers.” He was arrested again, and accordingly visited the office of the prosecutor, who is now preparing two further indictments, and asked; “ Would you drop the charges if I went back to Sicily? There I would be the richest man in the village, and Rosa would never cry again.” It is understood that the charges will be dropped. In the meantime Cusamano is preparing to sail, but in any event he is determined to quit bootlegging.—A. ana N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19146, 14 April 1924, Page 8
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