EX-FELON TAKES TO RUM-RUNNING.
MAKES (HUGE FORTUNE ’ BY' USING AIRPLANES. | (Special. to “Star.”) CHICAGO. October 29 How a. convict, released from prison virtually penniless, amassed a fortune of 5.000.000 dollars by. using aeroplnaes in his bootlegging business and operated’ forty-five breweries, Lwas disclosed her® to-night following .the indictment today of eight xpen .charged with prohibition' law violationa. The ..transportation by,aeroplane of liauor 'prevented hijackersf from robbing the firm of supplies that developed into profits. Frank G. J*arker' is aaid by Federal agent a to have amassed morel than 5.000,000 dollars by aeroplane bootlegging since he was released from the Joliet Penitentiary five years ago He became known to jtha-public in March. 1923, as the aviator who carried food and clothing .to the group of fishermen trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Later he figured as the guarantor of the Carpen tier-Gibbons fight at Michigan City. Ind. His sentence to prison followed his arrest in February, 1917, at Minneapolis a? the “Crown Prince” of a group Chicago automobile thieves whicA,, was headed by Ira . Bond, a Miimeapoliß’ broker. r .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18043, 31 December 1926, Page 1
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