Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-06 | Page 9 | Woman Liquor Runner Shot

Iii MM RUNNER SHOT Mexican Smugglers Fire on U. S. Guards as She Wades Across River BL PASO. Tc.. Jan C Shiulde. by ban-age fire from enugglera on r be-, Mexican Bide of the Rio 'Irnnde. nn J I apod Mexican woman carried a sack j full of tequilla across the rncr early J I today and deposited the lirptor on the American Bide Just as she laid down her burden1 ; immigration officers from El Paso be-( ; gan to return the fire of the smugglers, smug-glers, according to a detailed report! made by Chief Immigration (r!ieor c. A. Perkins. The woman, Gertrude Momalva, of Joarec, was serloualy wounded, peri haps fatally, by cross fire. A sack J full nf liquor was onflocated. Chief Perkins and other federal of liters declared 'hat It was the first' Itlmt ever reported where smugglers! undertook vo attempt to shield by fire: ia person who was wading I lie rlvori CatT3 'nK liquor. no