GOVERNOR ARRESTED
PROHIBITION LAW BROKEN INTERRUPTED CARD PARTY ALLEGED POLITICAL TRICK Bf Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 24, 7.30 p.m. New York, Nov. 23. A message from Mobile, Alabama, reports that Governor Brandon has been arrested for violation of the prohibition laws. When Federal agents broke into the fishing hut where the Governor and his friends were holding a card party after a day’s fishing, thirteen quarts of whisky were confiscated. The Governor and his party gave a 300 dollars bond each, and they will be tried for the illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Governor Brandon has been regarded heretofore as an ardent prohibitionist, and li is friends declare the affair is a political trick worked by his enemies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 9
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