STATE GOVERNOR ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF LIQUOR.
(Rcc.- November 24, 7.30 p.m.)
New York, November 23.
A message from Mobile, Alabama, reports that Governor Brandon has been arrested for violation of the prohibition laws. When Federal prohibition agents broken into a fishing-hut, where the Governor and some friends were holding a card party after a day’s fishing, thirteen quarts of whisky were confiscated. The Governor and the others comprising the party gave 390 dollars bond each. They will be tried for 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 bv his enemies.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 11
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112STATE GOVERNOR ARRESTED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 11
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