Bomb Farm Raided
United Press Assn. Electric Cable Copyright
GANG WAR IN U.S.A. Lucrative Beer Traffic Control EXPLOSIVES CAPTURED. V __
NEW YORK, March 8. Two squads of CBicago detectives early to-day raided a countryside farmhouse, near Melrose Park, which the police declared was a factory for turnmg out bomhs in wholesale quantities. Eleven men, the majority members of the Geuua gaug, were arrested. Two powerful dynamite bombs, wrapped apparently ready for delivery, were found in the kitchen cuphoard aud the house was an arsenal, in which four shotguns and many revolvers were stacked. The raid on the "homb farm55 was the first step in the police connter offensive to the threat of a general war in gangland for the control of the lucrative southside beer traffic.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DTN19300310.2.73
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 32, 10 March 1930, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126Bomb Farm Raided Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 32, 10 March 1930, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Daily Telegraph (Napier). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in