INGENIOUS BOOTLEGGER
RUM KING’S ROMANCE. CODED WIRELESS USED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright). (Sun Cable.) NEW YORK, January 21. As an instance of the ingenuity of bootleggers in hoodwinking the officials, Roy Olmstead, formerly diief Prohibition Officer at Seattle, two years ago turned bootlegger. He made his fortune, becoming “Rum King” on the Pacific Coast. His successors in the Government service assigned their best woman detective to entrap him. She succeeded so completely that she married him and turned over all the official secrets to him. The Government allowed him a broadcasting license, for he had gained a great reputation along the coast, reading bedtime stories to children. The court proceedings showed that his wife was reading into these bedtime stories code messages from her husband to his rum-running ships operating between British Columbia an< American cities. When the radio announced that “Peter Rabbit ran into the forest,” it meant that the American revenue cutter was leaving Seattle next morning on a scouting expedition.
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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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163INGENIOUS BOOTLEGGER Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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