This Week in History, 1927: A prominent Vancouver business leader is arrested for rum-running in San Francisco

  • 📰 VancouverSun
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 29 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 15%
  • Publisher: 61%

Indonesia Berita Berita

Indonesia Berita Terbaru,Indonesia Berita utama

This Week in History, 1927: British Columbia businesses smuggled a lot of booze to the U.S. during Prohibition

“the largest and most powerful smuggling syndicate , controlling a near monopoly of smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast.”

Parsons went to Tahiti to “obtain the landing certificate” of the Malahat, which would release his clients from the bond. He got it, then boarded the SS Tahiti and went back to San Francisco. New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach , watching agents pour liquor into a sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition.One of the other men charged was John Murphy, who the Examiner described as a former general agent for Consolidated Exporters in San Francisco and was now a “fugitive from justice” running the company’s operations in Tahiti.

 

Terima kasih atas komentar Anda. Komentar Anda akan dipublikasikan setelah ditinjau.
Berita ini telah kami rangkum agar Anda dapat membacanya dengan cepat. Jika Anda tertarik dengan beritanya, Anda dapat membaca teks lengkapnya di sini. Baca lebih lajut:

 /  🏆 49. in İD

Indonesia Berita Terbaru, Indonesia Berita utama