PROHIBITION IN AMERICA
A DRASTIC LAW A now peril apparently awaits the rasb man who breaks the United States prohibition laws by putting a flask of liquor in his hip pocket on'going out to dine. The Act provides (say the Times New York correspondent) that wl:ero a person is found transporting liquor the punishment shall include the impounding of the vehicle in which that liquor is being carried. At Chicago the police arrested Charles Neil Thomas, President of the Commercial Trust and Securities Company, who is alleged to have served liquor to his companions at dinner out of a pocket flask, But the Chief of Police, besides charging the banker with distributing liquor in a public placp, added the further charge of transporting an a'coholic bei'orage, and declares that if the latter charge is maintained the law will require him to seize the trousers, which were the " vehicle" employed to convey the liquor.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2
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