Private citizen's letter to Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt about two New Jersey establishments (April 1929)
National Archives Justice Department file: a typed letter, stamped received 30 April 1929, saying Prohibition has not been properly enforced and asking Mabel Willebrandt to act against two named places in New Jersey. The names are not repeated here.
- Date
- 1929-04-01
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 6857733
- 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 a letter to “Miss Mabel Willebrant [Willebrandt]” identifying two establishments in New Jersey said to be breaking the Prohibition law. It is a typed letter from a private citizen to Assistant Attorney General Mabel Willebrandt, stamped received April 30, 1929, saying Prohibition has not been properly enforced and asking her to act against two named places, one in the city of Newark, that the writer says sold liquor. It carries Department of Justice filing stamps for the Tax and Prohibition Division and the file number 23-0.
The letter makes allegations by a private person about named establishments and individuals. They are unverified, and this page omits the names. The item is in Record Group 60, series Class 23 (Liquor Violations) Litigation Case Files and Enclosures, file unit 23-0-19. The catalog date is month-level (April 1929); the stamp on the letter is April 30. The stored copy was resized from a 1.2 MB JPEG.
