POLICE ACCUSED
OF SHOOTING BOOTLEGGERS. (Baited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON. Feh, 16.
A Chicago message states: Assistant Prohibition Administrator Si lie way says that it is bis belief that it was members of the police lorcc who killed the seven men (whose, shooting was cabled on February 14th). He said lie felt that the act arose from the failure of the police.to obtain the requisite bribes which they had been exacting from various factions engaged in beer running. “The police,” lie said, “have oi'obably accepted the ne" method of murder in retaliation for the fact that a police squad car with a gong on the side was seen by several witnesses, together with the fact that those in the garage recognised two of the murderers who were in police uniforms, and admitted them without question, substitutes my theory that they were policemen.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1929, Page 6
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