Show Gentleman Bootlegger I Faces Ele tri Chair I i 41 L lv 1 4 b- b 1111 Jw r rj JANES C A f fr t FOR Q BUFFALO N X 1 Y Aug 17 11 1 Once James C Voel Voel- Voel-ker Voel ker was WIlS a a bootlegger and a a good one The Tho white white gentry of the Buffalo speak speak- speakeasIes had only to iy say siy Its to assuage any doubts of their patrons Ills His name carried such prestige prestige that other jobbers borrowed It as 1111 a 11 guarantee of their fiery nery prod products Now faces death In the tho electric chair He H Is charged with first degree murder for tor partial pi responsibility f for r the tho wave of poison polson liquor which swept away 46 6 l I In Ic Canada adI and ad we te New York I 7 S A SIt of M It Is 1 ld n no nty o tt r ty ae v ae marid mand the death V for bootlegging did not plot the tho deaths of more than two score score sons pel-sons whom ho he never ne had seen Nor dId did 10 h e cause the tho deaths while en- en engaged cn In the commission of ofa ofa ofa a felon felony Bootlegging Is s not nota not Il a felony telony and for tor that mat mat- matter matter matter ter transportation and sale or of wood alcohol are ar not even cn Illegal All In tn all the charge looked d slightly ridiculous wh when n It first was placed attorn e s laughed of ot It as a bluff But DI District Attorney Guy B Moore 1 has las found a 0 certaIn clause In the tha homicide law lawand lawand lawand and precedent both of which he says sas will apply to th the case It seemS seems according to New NewTone NewYork- NewYork Tone statutes that the th kill kill- lac log of ot a human being Is murder In tho the first degree when It Is la committed by an ana a act t Imminently dangerous to others and evincing a 11 do- do de depraved prayed cd wind mind regardless of human life although with with- without without I out a 11 premeditated design to effect the th de death th of o any n in- in In Individual Chemists report amazing amounts of brought to tb them m f for r analysis Boot Doot- Bootleggers teeters Boot are in a J frenzy arid have lost thousands of ot dol dol- dol dollars lars And the boycott goes goeson goeson on No one will drink drink from froni from the poIson polson cup rip nn I |