Word: downey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another suspected liquor trafficker, started another U. S. v. State wrangle for jurisdiction. In ice-strewn Buffalo Harbor on Christmas night a Coast Guard craft came upon a speedboat without lights. In it were two men. The coast guardsmen opened fire on the suspected smuggler, fatally wounding Eugene F. Downey Jr., onetime railroad police sergeant, son of a Buffalo police lieutenant. His companion escaped...
...Guardsmen's Story: The speedboat was a known narcotic and liquor runner; stop signals and warning shots were unheeded; the craft was fired on as it fled guiltily away; not until half an hour later was it found, docked, the dying Downey in the cockpit waving his hand feebly. Although the guardsmen found neither drugs nor liquid aboard, they emphasized the fact that Downey was out on bail, charged with smuggling...