Word: bootlegs
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...preliminaries of a murder trial began last week in Cincinnati. For George Remus, once potent bootleg boss, later a convict, they were poison. They had shot dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky...
...police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant or his friends. . . . This condition is especially true in what have received the common name of bootleg murders. Even when the witnesses are willing to testify, perjury is one of the most common offenses in the criminal court...
...Shumaker said that where state laws permitted prescription sales of whiskey, nearly all of whiskey so sold was for bootleg purposes; that whiskey possesses no medicinal qualities not possessed by grain alcohol and that grain alcohol was obtainable on prescription; that "we must bring about a better enforcement of the liquor law before we start tearing it down...
...Crow' law in your heaven. I heard you sing 'Sweet Land of Liberty' but I don't see how you do it. ... But . . . you have some friends not afraid to sit at the table with you. I have done so, and I've drunk bootleg liquor with you, and in what better way can friendship be manifested...
...Prohibition has saved more lives than any other single policy of government. The drop in the death rate in the first seven years of prohibition has been equivalent to the saving of more than a million lives. Bootleg liquor has killed its hundreds, but licensed liquor killed its thousands yearly...