ENFORCING PROHIBITION
AGENTS BOMSAR3 HOUSE WOMAN KILLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, March 27. (Rocevod March -6, at 10.40 a.in.) Three Prohibition agents stormed the home of Joseph King at Aurora, Illinois. which they said was a liquor dispensary. They bombarded the place with mustard gas bombs. They killed Mrs King and clubbed her husband into unconsciousness. 1 heir boy Gerald, aged nine, who was ' terrorstricken on seeing his mother dead, seized a revolver and shot one ot the officers in the leg. Tlio officials justified the attack on the ground that King declined to open Jn's door when the agents called earlier for the purpose of executing a warrant. —Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 8
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112ENFORCING PROHIBITION Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 8
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