CALLED ASSASSINS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 8

CALLED ASSASSINS

Australian Press Association.

prohibition officers shoot to kill.

WASHINGTON, April 28. The House of Representatives to-day sbook with a bitter debate over the killing of a 21-year-old boy bootlegger, who was laying a smoke screen in the streets of AVashington in an endeavour to escape with laquor-laden motor lorry. Ho was shot dead by a policeman. Representative Holclay offered a defence of the police officer who did the shooting, and other members applauded him. Representative Black then sprang to his feet, saying : "I think this is one ot the most outrageous scenes I have ever encountered 111 tlie House — to tlnnk that a statement of oue of our members describing the killing of a boy should be applauded by members oi the House of Representatives of the United States." Representative Laguardia, commenting sarcastically upon the lai'ge sums spent by prohibition agents in niglit clubs to obtain evidence, said, "Enforcement officers do not sboot wlien they go into high-class night clubs. you send the orchid and champagne sqund there to entertain tlie hostesses, but you ea 11 out the assassin squad tn shoot ixior people elsewhere who are trying to make a living out of liquor."