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Page 3 of the Washington Times general news section, 14 October 1927, with photographs of Princess Ileana and others, and the short item Brothers Die in Rum War in the right-hand column
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Washington Times, 14 October 1927, page 3: Brothers die in rum war

Brothers Die in Rum War

Paper
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)
Date
1927-10-14
Page
Page 3
Headline
Brothers Die in Rum War
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.

Page 3 of the Washington Times “General News Section” for Friday, 14 October 1927, a page dominated by photographs of Princess Ileana of Romania. In the right-hand column is “Brothers Die in Rum War,” credited to the International News Service and datelined Cleveland, October 14.

It reports that police were seeking the gunmen in the murder “last night” of Joseph and John Lonardo, brothers, in a barber shop. It calls them sugar dealers who, detectives said, supplied bootleggers with sugar for making liquor, says they had considerable authority in “underworld” circles, and says police believed they had many enemies among local bootleggers. It adds that Joe “is said to have kept a bodyguard on most occasions.”

The account is the wire service’s, from police sources. The same dispatch ran in the South Bend News-Times of 15 October 1927. The page names no suspect and no street.