YOUTHFUL BOOTLEGGER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20703, 29 April 1929, Page 9

YOUTHFUL BOOTLEGGER

SHOT DEAD BY POLICEMAN. BITTER DEBATE IN AMERICAN LOWER HOUSE. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April 26. (Received April,27, at 5.5 p.m.) The House of Representatives to-day shook with a bitter debate over the killing of a 21-year-old boy bootlegger who was laying a smoke screen in the streets of Washington in an endeavour to escape with a liquor-laden motor lorry and was shot dead by a policeman. Mr Holaey offered the defence of the police who did the shooting, and other members applauded him. Mr Black then sprang to his feet saying; “I think this is one of the most outrageous scenes I have ever encountered in the House. , To think that a statement. of one of our members describing the killing of a boy should be applauded by the members of the House of Representatives of the United States! ” Mr Laguardia, commenting sarcastically upon the large sums spent by the prohibition agents in the night clubs to obtain evidence, said: “Enforcement officers do not shoot when they go into high class, night clubs.' You send an orchid and champagne squad' there to entertain the hostesses, but you call out an assassin squad to shoot poor people elsewhere who are trying to make a living out of liquor.”—Australian Press Association—United Service.