New York, May 24.
Mr, Edward Tatham, director of Justerini Brooks Ltd.' of London, pleaded his innocence of charges that he had violated the United States prohibition law.
He had been arrested on a train starting for Toronto, and it was alleged that he had solicited orders, fon behalf of a syndicate, for smuggling fine liquors into the United States and delivering them to millionaires using them on private yachts or utilizing the facil yacht clubs.
No liquors had, however, been delivered up to the present time, the investigation indicated.—United Press.
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