KING OF RUM-RUNNERS
EXECUTED IN FLORIDA. READY TO PAY THE PENALTY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) l . MIAMI, August 17. James Horace Alderman, king of the rum-runners on the Florida coast, and regarded as the. most desperate sea criminal of modern times in America, was hanged to-day. About a year ago he killed two coastguards and a Federal secret service man. He captured the coastguard patrol boat, and almost succeeded in blowing it to fragments before he was captured. Alderman, who is the only rum-runner ever executed in Uncle Sam’s coast warfare, left 1,000,000 dollars to his family, with this note: “ Remember that violation of the law does not get you anything but trouble. I am ready to pay.” —United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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