BOOTLEGGING
A CEMETERY ORGY
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received this day nt 9.40 a.m.)
NEW YORK, Nov 14
Grave digging being rather dull, Richard Jermyn, caretaker of Peabody cemetery at Boston, turned bootlegger. He started a cemetery night club, and did a lively businsess ai>ongst his dead customers.
A police raid caught nine grls and twenty-six men following the revels, where beer was dispensed from . ». coffin table being used as a bar. Twenty gallons of whisky were found in a tub peacefully resting on an upper slab in a mausoleum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1929, Page 5
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