Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-12-02
AIRPLANESs ARE
I. USED BY CRIME
/. RING IN WINNIPEG

II Declare Some Dealers
Have Agreed to Pay Their
Fines if Captured.
Winnipeg, Man, Dec. 2.-Airplanes|
are being used constantly by members
Of the alleged CRIME trust which po-
lice believe has It's headquarters IN
Winnipeg, to smuggle liquor and other
goods across the border,s Chief rat
tray Of the Manitoba police revealed
today.
The mounted police and customs Of
ficials' campaign against The snug
glers is proceeding with great energy
Within the last Two months ~ aulo-
mobiles have been seized while active
ly engaged in the running Of liquor
and smuggling of other goods.
Officials are now in possession OF
full evidence proving the most THOR
ough and costly organization on the
part Of the laW-breakers, even TO the
extent that American smugglers nave
been and are guaranteed by certaln
eliquor dealers and booueggers against
interference by the Canadian law, SO
that when the smugglers are captured
the liquor people with whom they 40
business in Manitoba pay the penalty.
offered Projection.
Some dealers claim to have "protec-
ton" from certain officials charged
with preservation of law and order
and only last week one western lQuor
man visited Winnipeg for the avoWed
purpose of getting the same protec-
tion as other have" He complalneo
that he was unable because he lacked
protection to continue to rum runners
the guarantees he had been carrying
out against legal penalties of their
acts, and that in consequence he was
losing business and slnugglers were
trading with other concerns.
There have been some serious do
,ne.s upon some trails. Attempts have
been made to murder police officers
by driving full speed at them in high
powered automobiles in defiance of an
=. sts. have been fired to intimidate
Gs..sers:: Officers engaged upon this
ori ,,.,.: daily ana nightly facing the
80, /. t;,ilitHic treatment dealt out to
: a Aiaxaaslex McCurdys James Uttiey
John Dineen, Stockyards hotel victims.
~ Get, II ,smugg1ers.
During the week Just ended officers
OF customs together with an escort OF
mounted police, toured southwest
Manitoba and, part iof southeastern
Saskatchewan, with the result that
stolen cars, most Of them running
liquor. They captured six gunmen,
who were all convicted, fined and their
guns conflscated. though one gang OF
the auto gunner was not captured
before volley Of fifteen shots had
been fired by them, without anybody
being hit. .
v A story of the trails between Win
nipeg and the boundary, use Of air.
police officers, nightly gun play, would
provide the finest material for
thriller and before the end of the
trail is reached there will be sensa.
j: tional revelations as to alleged com.
i plicity of higher ups, both in and ou
OF public service.
Those recently guilty Of breaches
of the Manitoba temperance act. are
E. H. Ferguson and Archie Dawes
Deaking, Sioux City,-Iowa; G. A
Forseth and E. ALTON, Grand Forks
Nd; Ike Goldberg, Grand Forks, N
d.; H. c., Collinson Of Neche, N. D.
Edward Chapman, Winnipeg; r. A
.MacNeil, Winnipeg; r. A.. Engel, 56t
Fenrer and Dodd Road, West st
Paul Mimi; G. Weigner, 133 Wes
Il Winnifred street, st. Paul, Mimi; j
J, Burbeck, Avon. S. d. Andy iSDrin
kIe Bottineau. N. D.; r.. l. Flynn
alias Flett. st. Paul, MINI; Nei, Hur
ley. Ala Seventh avenue East. Mime
4 apolis, Mimi; A. G. schoonmaker
I, MINI; Royce Nelson Minot, n, D.
Andrew Kachal and F. Clswski
Jamestown, N. D.; j. Parsonss 1914
Fifteenth street, Sioux .City, Iowa
Barney Fry, Wichita, Kas.;; D.. Wilson
Minot, N. D:,,and ]. 3. Logan, Crane
Forks, n. D.
having been seized from parties un
known. >. ostly because the owners o
. drivers escaped sometimes after firini
shots at police. d
). 81 ss5j sis Close Calls.
Some thrilling tales Of night trai
are told in mounted police circles
Sergeant Major 1T. u. Green. Of Bois
sevain detachment. seeing lights an
car shearing through the night, com
n. ing across the boundary into Canada
!. planted himself in its trail and in ful
uniform called upon the drivers Q
!. the car to halt as it approached him
The car was promptly driven y ful
4 speed right at him, and as he jumpe
from the trail ne was struck, glanc
a. into the ditch. maryellously escaPin
seriouss injury or worse. s A e
In another case acting on inrOrma
tion that led them to expect hug
gflau,3tof contrahand. oftfcers plante
themselves at St Norbert bridge
81 w Y,riroeg. "a high p0wered car 10
which the ofTicers Law In waiting 500
.s appeared. Gne detect i've called ha
hut the car drove stra ight y. at hin
passed him as he jumped. and the
slowed up slightly to make the ,tur
.,r. - tl1s bridge detective fired \
&: warning shot. and Constable Burtol
his rcd coat and ibraSs but tons piaiI
~ showing in he S$glA are fghts OF th
Ss.5 ear. stood with upli fted hand IN u
& ssetstn~ Of the bridge a ar,pro achs IN
j3S q car, va inst antiys acceSe Grated to-
M IS miles an sflour ~ and driven VI {
III w the course ,ef 90 operative II,
.I.ss Mi ies 3 lle notice became invo.yN Vi y
s S.s Il e,i,, FIGHT near Mo fdslt. Inspsctr
woods and Sergeant sM Moodie signa,le
5 sonne autos sputhbound to sstop, Pa
ties in one Of the car atopp ed an
n nnened fire, running as they fired i: I
fSs n notl1er car fnrt her down the roa
RAJ iaiid held In waiting. Jumping I'M
III fI,ile Srar they Disappeared, leaving
roaAGter, license number =. III SOL
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