Ex-officials Severely Punished for Conspiracy New York, July 2.
G. B, Means, former Agent of the Department of Justice, and his secretary, Elmer Jarnecke, have been convicted of conspiring with bootleggers to withdraw whiskey from distilleries. 'They were to-day sentenced to two years' imprison ment and fined $5,000 und $10,000 spectively.
While constguards were pursuing alleged rumrunners off Sandy Hook, there was an exchange of shots resulting in the wounding of a man, named Kadenbach, in a passe ing "motor-boat, which led to. his death in hospital.—Reuter's Americ
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