BEATING LIQUOR LAWS.
Defiance in America. LAW-BREAKING SYNDICATE DISCOVERED. 3y Cable —Press Associstloc —Copyright NEW YORK, April 8. Tho police at Chicago raided the sumptuously furnished effioes of a lawbreaking sjmdicatp, and discovered complete details of operations in connection with the distribution of liquor and the management of disorderly resorts on a stupendous scale, involving many millions of dollars annually. Information obtained from neatly audited ledgers, filing cabinets, and other book-keeping devices on the premises, included the names cf hundreds of. wealthy liquor customers and saloon keepers, with running accounts, the names of disorderly resorts and inmates, lists of police officers and Government officials bribed ahd also an account of the operations of four great breweries, and liquor deliveries by carloads. ' Johnny Torris, an underworld character, is alleged to ho the head of the syndicate, -whose magnificently appointed offices bore the name of a physician, and contained samples, of liquor of every description. Telephone, calls recorded showed that liquor flowed into headquarters from every known inlet of the United States, from coast to coast.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 April 1925, Page 9
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174BEATING LIQUOR LAWS. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 April 1925, Page 9
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