LIQUOR SMUGGLERS PALACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 1

LIQUOR SMUGGLERS PALACE.

XKW YORK.. July 9. The town oi Joliet, Illinois, was Lite -erne Yesterday <J an aniamng Prohibition comedy. Acting «n orders from th.- T reasury Department in " asitington, Revenue miicers placed liens on me sumptuous mansion recently - uaired ay Air Lawtvme Cn.w.cy. the reputed King "f the lllmoi-ls ■ hontleggers" (liquor smugglers). who i- ( nTu-m-d with evading income tax to the imuTof Lb iA'-h i.awn ia e is the sun ol a dug-, atyhci. Soon alter the arrival of prolitmtion he rose suddenly from poverty m an almost liicredihie degree of alllucme Ostensible his only means id (dipnoi l consist ot a garage and petrol station, in ivaliu l.e is supposed to be Du director of a highly organised system ot

noer-running, "unit lor tune \cais im. kepi Illinois satisfactorily "moist. He is also alleged by the Dovenmient investigators to be the su'd ownti ot a inunncr ot breweries in the town- ot Klein and LVkin. where real beer is manufactured. Rolling in wealth. nrervntlv alumni a palatial 11 •* 1 ment. 'and this he converted ...to a i.illioiiaire’s home" according to the ideas of luxury which he had gatliend front regular attendance at Uuiema theatres. , ( After purchasing a falntlotis stock Oi co-tlv Oriental carp.-ts and five motorear- L row lev flabbergasted the mcichal,ts of Joliet by ordering solid gold door-knobs for his palate. Besides the palace and the golden door-knobs, the Government has placed a lien upon the Joliet Commercial Club, "hic.t Ltovhbought for C 12.099. a tew weeks ago when he heard that his apphcation to. tuembersliip had been black-ball'd.

RIDDLE OF WOMAN’S DE-VIH. LONDON, July 11

An inquest was held at Ma lord on Saturday on Afary Jane Hinckley 0., of Nc-w-street. Stafford, who wa> found lying dead on the bed-room floor with her head partially immersed m an enamel bowl containing water. Or Frederick M. Blunter, who had attended the woman for heart turn. >hsaid he did not think she could lm\e fallen accidentally on the bowl. The coroner said if it was a eax suicide it was a most extraordniar method to adopt. He 'Tcorded a tei; diet that death was caused hv sultoca tion, due to drowning, hut "hethe done purposely or accidentally was not sufficient evidence to show.