BOMBING AS A BUSINESS
EXPERT’S SCALE OF, CHARGES. “First-class bombing on easy terms” was on a business card discovered on the person of Frank Phillips, an exconvict and an American veteran of the Canadian army. He was captured by the Chicago Police recently in the act of lighting the fuse of a bomb placed in the doorway of a night club. Phillips confessed that he went to Chicago for the express purpose of selling his services ns an experienced dynamiter. The “job” at which he was arrested, he continued, was the third he had undertaken in a week for bomb terrorists. For a single bombing, Phillips safet he charged £3O, but for larger orders his price varied, and was based 011 the standard of three bombing for £IOO. Until he was captured his business prospects were good, and he had h.id several tentative offers from “racketeers,” who made a profitable business of exacting contributions from shopowners under threat of bombing them if they refused to pay.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1930, Page 5
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166BOMBING AS A BUSINESS Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1930, Page 5
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