PROHIBITION AGENTS
ATTACK ALLEGED LIQUOR
DISPENSARY
(United Press Assomation- By Electric Telegraph— C'> py right).
(Received this day at 10 80. a.m.) VANCOUVER, March 28.
Three prohibition agents stormed the home of Joseph King. Aurora, Illinois, which they said was a liquor dispensary. They bombarded the place with mustard gas bombs, killed -Mrs King, and clubbed the husband to unconsciousness. A boy, Gerald, aged nine, was tenor stricken, and seeing Ins mother dead, seized a revolver and shot an officer in the leg. Officials justified the attack on the ground that King declined to open the door when the agents called earlier for the purpose oti' executing a warrant.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1929, Page 5
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