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United Service.
desperado's message King Of Rum=Runners Hanged CRIMINAL'S LAST WARNING
(Eeoeived This Day, Noon). MIAMI, August 17. James Horac-© Alderman, kmg of tlie rumruimers on the Florifla coast, and regarded as tbe most desperate sea criminal of modern tiines in America, was hanged to-day. About a year ago lie killed two coast guards and a Federal Secret Service ma n. He captured a coast guavcl patrol boat and almost succeeded in blowing it to fragments. Before lie was captured, Aklcrman, who is tlie oqly rumrunner ever executed in Uncie Sam's coast warfare, left 1,000,000 dollars to his family, with this note "Remember that violation of tbe law does not get you anvthiilg but trouble. I am ready to pay." _____
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 7
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126"Ready To Pay" Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 7
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