MURDER IS MURDER. In the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, a city that will soon be bigger than all the rest of New York, eleven have been killed by poisonous bootleg whisky since Labor Day. That is mur der on an active scale. The Government used to make money by taxing whisky. Now bootleggers, and officials that tax them, take millions of profit from swiftly and deadly alcoholic poison. Killing with bootleg whisky would be discouraged if some of the killers were sent to life imprisonment—as they should be. Murder is murder.—Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 8, 1922. in a sub-leader. Will you countenance this sort of thing in New Zealand? Vote Continu ance. 70
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 4
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