Bureau of Prohibition letter on charges against agents investigating the Tacoma case (2 August 1932)
National Archives Bureau of Prohibition case-file letter from the San Francisco office to Washington about charges brought against two special agents by a clergyman and the mayor of Tacoma. It reports one side of a dispute.
- Date
- 1932-08-02
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 298455
- Rights
- The National Archives catalog lists this item's Use Restriction status as "Unrestricted." Federal records are public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
The National Archives catalog titles this “Letter regarding charges against special agents who had been investigating the Tacoma case.” It is a typed letter from the Bureau of Prohibition’s San Francisco office to the Bureau in Washington, referring to charges brought against two special agents by a clergyman and the mayor of Tacoma. It describes the Tacoma investigation of an alleged conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act by the mayor, police officers and bootleggers, and says partisan politics entered the case. Case 1055-M is printed on the page.
The letter names several private and public persons. They are left out here because the page shows only one side of a dispute, and the allegations in it are unproved on this record. The item is in Record Group 56 (Treasury), Investigative Case Files (Bureau of Prohibition), file unit “Tacoma Alcohol Seizure Investigation,” National Archives at Seattle. Only page 1 of 5 is stored, converted from GIF to JPEG.