LIQUOR-SMUGGLING
RING IN CANADA A HUGE ORGANISATION OTTAWA, Nov. 1. The Iloyal Canadian Alounted Police have discovered a huge liquor-selling! ring which has been operating on the south coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Evidence of its activities was secured in the course of a seltrch for the bodies of two girls, Afaude and Alarguerite Ascah, cousins, living in a village on the Claspe Peninsula, who mysteriously disappeared some weeks ago. Recently the mutilated body of Alaude Ascah was found floating near tho shore, and tho inquest revealed that she had been murdered. Her cousin is still missing, and the theory is that the two girls were killed bv bootleggers in revenge for the part taken by the girls’ relatives in checking smuggling off the Gaspe Coast. All boats plying in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are being searched, and four have been found heavily laden with liquor from the French islands of Saint Pierre and ATiquelon. Raids made on Sunday at suspected centres put the police into possession of documents in which were found the names of over 500 persons involved in smuggling, which is a very profitable pursuit, as liquor which evades the Customs can be sold below the prices of the Quebec Liquor Commission.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18279, 23 December 1933, Page 5
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