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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Canadian Minister Vincent Massey took over the case from Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, because of the registry of the schooner. Secret notes and explanations passed back and forth between the U. S. capital and Ottawa and London. Three U. S. departments puzzled over the problem, namely, State, Treasury and Justice...
George D. Carbary was elected State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...January one Boyd Fairchild, Dry snooper, reported to the State's Attorney a purchase of liquor at the home of one Joseph De King, 38, in Aurora. For this information he was paid $5. A "John Doe" warrant was sworn...
Later a gallon of weak wine was found. State's Attorney Carbary charged the De King home was a speakeasy. De King, recovering, claimed that he had given the State Dry agents a few drinks...
...Springfield the Aurora episode became much-needed ammunition for the Wets in the Legislature in their attempt to repeal the State enforcement act of 1921. Meanwhile Attorney-General Oscar E. Carlstrom prepared to direct the investigation of the De King killing over Car-bary's head...