GOVERNOR ARRESTED FOR VIOLATION OF VOLSTEAD LAW.
By Telegraph.—F’ress Assn.— Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, November 23. A message from Mobile, Alabama, reports that (Governor Brandon was arrested for the violation of the prohibition laws. When Federal agents broke into a fishing hut where the Governor and his friends were holding a card partv after a day’s fishing, thirteen quarts of whisky were confiscated. The Governor and his party gave a bond of 300 dollars each. They will be tried for being in illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. The Governor has been regarded heretofore as an ardent prohibitionist and his friends declare that the affair is a political trick worked by his enemies.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 13
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