Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-05-21
Domestic

Hundreds of cases OF malt, several
barrels OF hops and thousands OF pre-
scriptions said to give instructions on
how to make home brew with high
alcoholic percentage, were confiscated
by raidlng prohibition enforcement Of
ficers in New Orleans. and according
to the officers the raid involves more
than ten thousand persons in New Or
leans and the Gulf Coast. Books OF
the Tropical Food Products company
in which are recorded the names Of
thousands Of persons who have pur-
chased home-brew outfits were taken.
Twenty-four tenants in an apart
ment house at Chicago formed com
pany and bought an apartment of their
own, preferring to pay $40 month
rent rather than 500. The movement
is reported to be spreading.
The SUDDEN clang of motorman's
gong cost David Gerstein, an auction
eer, $12,500 in cash. He had just with
drawn the money to invest in a stock
for auction. A motorman's clang of
his bell frightened Gerstein into do
ing a hasty step to safety and in do
ing so he lost the package out of his
overcoat pocket containing the money.
He tainted and was rushed to New
York hospital, where he told OF his
misfortune.
Edgar Watkins, sometime defeated
candidate for congress from the Fifth
Georgia district, general counsel OF
the Southern Wholesale Grocers' AS
ISOLATION, advised the the association,
in session at St. Louis Mo, to disre-
fard the Lever food and fuel act in
the sale of sugar
The confessed bigamis-murderer
sentenced at Los Angeles, Calf, to
life Imprisonment under the name Of
James P. Watson, according to District
Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine, told
that official of the murder of ninth
woman victim and stated his true
name was Dan Holden and that he
was a native of Arkansas. The ninth
victim was tha1 of Eleanor Frazier.
who. Holden admitted he had drowned
in the Spokane river near the city Of
Spokane.
Completely disguised as woman
from blonde wig to corset and silk
lingerie, man who gave his name
as Bruce Barthing was captured by
the police after chase through the
streets OF Chicago. The police are
holding him in connection with mum.
Der of robberies committed in an ex-
elusive north side residence district.
One of the most daring train robber-
les in the middle west in recent years
ended in the death of a bandit in Chi
cago who looted mail car Of the IL
linois Central New Orleans Limited
of currency estimated to total about
one hundred thousand dollars. The
money was recovered One police
man, shot by the bandit, died later in
a Chicago hospital. and another was
wounded seriously.
One hundred horses were burned to
death in Chicago in spectacular blaze
that for hours threatened to sweep
through the entire stockyards district.
The fire started from cigarette
Despite the ravages Of tuberculosis.
which has progressed so far that her
life Is nightmare that may end at
any moment, Mrs. Henry c. Fredericks
continues to smile as she losses on
her bed in the city Jail at Elgin, ILL.,,
after she had deliberately pumped
seven bullets into the body of her
wealthy husband as he entered her
Tome. Mrs. Fredericks says her hus-
'and was going to marry another wom-
N without waiting for her demise, and |
he feels happy now II the other .woni-
n Is suffering some OF the agony that |
be has endured for some time.