Evening Star, 3 January 1930, page 4: Rhode Island names the patrol boat crew
Names of Crew Given: Patrol Boat Men Summoned for Inquest Over Rum Case Victims
- Paper
- Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
- Date
- 1930-01-03
- Page
- Page 4
- Headline
- Names of Crew Given: Patrol Boat Men Summoned for Inquest Over Rum Case Victims
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page 4 of the Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 3 January 1930. Under the head “Names of Crew Given. Patrol Boat Men Summoned For Inquest Over Rum Case Victims” and the dateline “PROVIDENCE, R. I., January 3,” the paper reports that the Rhode Island attorney general, “in charge of the State’s case in the investigation of the slaying of three rum runners in Rhode Island waters last Sunday morning, today made public the names” of the crew of Coast Guard patrol boat 290. He had received them from United States Attorney Henry M. Boss, Jr., and asked that the crew be summoned to the inquest.
The OCR spells the attorney general’s surname “Hieltzen.” The research record reads it as Oscar L. Heltzen, which matches the other forms on the page; this archive gives both and has not checked the spelling against another source.
The same page reports a meeting at which speakers attacked the killings, among them John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston. These are the speakers’ statements as reported, not findings.