CHURCH TOWER.
Signalling Station For RumRunners. INHABITANTS INCENSED. (United Service.) NEW YORK, September 18. The inhabitants of Wellfleet, one of the oldest towns on the coast of Massachusetts, are incensed because of the use by bootleggers' agents of the electric lights on the church tower for signalling t<i rum-runners on. the shore. There the latter have landed cargoes of liquor. The town clock is in the church tower. The bootleggers , agents obtained a key to the basement from where the lights »r« controlled. They then flashed code their confederates.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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89CHURCH TOWER. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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