Show I Fighting Priest I Is Threatened ii i i i i f ft fI L t I I t 9 I I The R Rev v. v Father George GeorgeI I E. E Bennett who caught I i rum ruin runners landing lauding carI cargoes car- car i I I goes under police I tion I 0 Officials S Seize ize I police Blotter J. J Dec 11 ii By U. U P. P P. P Additional Indictments in New r Jerseys Jersey's rum smuggling scandal were fn In pros prospect today as asi I authorities continued to delve Into i operations of the bootlegging 3 syndi l cato cate which is alleged to hive landed thousands of cases of ot liquor at at a of police pollee pier under prot protection cion 11 The investigation is proceeding lpg so rapidly that it now v seems IJ probable iJ I th tho new Indictments will wm be asKed Within 24 hours Assistant Prosecutor tar tor MacMahon said 4 7 Developments in the case in included In- In f. f Father George F. F Bennet Bonnet Catholic priest who disclosed important details de do- tails regarding the plot has received letters threatening him with death as a result re of ot his activities rr Prosecutor Ml MUton o of Hudson Jucson county MacMahon hoi hoity n F ty Detective Ila Hayes es seized the tile Weehawken Wee hawk hawken n station police pollee blotter this his morning declaring they are interested inter ested in something s on tin It The blotter ma may ha oine record of the I activity of ot the twelve t tw lve persons In InI Including In- In I eluding policemen and town of officials ti- ti cia dais Is already indicted as members i of the rum running I I From three to eight new indict indictments U t- t I ments some of ot them l jeral j- j J I eral ral officers are anticipated ted D 3 l Mrs 1 Rose nose whose son son I I I Frank Tank Is believed to to o have been sl slain ln by the rum runners offered ire I re reward I ward of ot 1000 for information which would lead to the conviction of ot his murderers The Tho nev Rev fey Father ather George Gennet has a small parish in Weehawken N. N J. J of some 1200 souls They are poor So is he Poverty is not the Ute worst of misery The women and Vere ere driven deeper into I the illicit liquor Father Bennet 1 not Concerned with the law but he was with the tho welfare 11 of his parish He strove to close tho the saloons at midnight and Sunday Sun Sun- day days They refused Then he went to the source He lIe cau caught ht the rumI rumrunners rum ruin I runners landing cargoes under police police po po- po- po lice protection on Weehawken piers Father Bennet Bonnet has a fighting Jaw Threats and rind bribes did not move him He lie was protecting his ownen own I Ten en policemen and one businessman I face trial triai and the is not yet |