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Front page of the Evening Star, Washington, 26 July 1930, with a political cartoon at center and the item Hold Bootlegger Tricked in Charge Against Buckley in the second column
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Evening Star, 26 July 1930, page 1: Hold bootlegger tricked in charge against Buckley

Hold Bootlegger Tricked in Charge Against Buckley

Paper
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
Date
1930-07-26
Page
Page 1
Headline
Hold Bootlegger Tricked in Charge Against Buckley
Source
Library of Congress, Chronicling America
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.

Front page of the Washington Evening Star for Saturday, 26 July 1930. In the second column is “Hold Bootlegger Tricked in Charge Against Buckley,” with the deck “Detroit Newspaper Says Chock Feared Wilcox Might Send Him to Jail,” credited to the Associated Press and datelined Detroit.

It reports that the Detroit News said Frank Chock, identified as a bootlegger, swore in a new affidavit that Police Commissioner Wilcox tricked him into signing an affidavit accusing Jerry Buckley of an attempted shakedown. The item also says Buckley’s funeral was set for 9 a.m. that day.

This is a newspaper’s account of affidavits reported by another newspaper. It is not a record of any proceeding.