RUMRUNNERS END
EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
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(Received this dnv at 8.30. a.m.)
MIAMI, August 17
•James Horace Alderman, king of rum runners on the Florida Coast and regarded as the most desperate sea criminal of modern times in America, was hanged to-day. About a year ago he killed two Coastguards and a Federal Secret SerWcK man. He oa-ptured a coastguard. .. patrol boat and almost succeeded fn blowing it to fragments. Before lie was executed, ho stated that in Uncle Sam’s coasfc warfare he had made a million dollars, which he left to his family, with this note :--- “Remember ihe violation of the Maw does not get you anything bait trouble. Am ready to, pay.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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