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Show CANADA PROFITS BY RUM RUNNING Taxes Collected at Night When Smugglers Are Loading Boats HAMILTON. Ont.. March 24. (By The Associated Preasi. A picture of Caaafla8 custom officials standing at nlo-hr on the river bank collertmc 18.G') a cae on Dominion liquor an It was loaded on boats to be smujr-tjled smujr-tjled into the I'nited States was drawn In police court Thursday. Tli.- o!-ture was sketched by Herbert Her-bert G. Guest of Brlditeburir, a trucking; truck-ing; contractor, and Charles Russell. neribed ae "body nnd soul'' of a iioffalo importlno: comptui) They I took the stand during a hearing in ' the case of Roy Mitchell, and William Hughes, of Brldgcburg, employed by , Guest, who were charged with keep-I keep-I Ing luiuor for barter and sale. Distilling is permitted under the iiniar... ll.iior but the product I must not be sold (n the province. Sixty ' cnr.es which Mitchell nnd Htuches were taking in a truck through Hamilton on their way to the border were seized seiz-ed on March 15. Guest promptly acknowledged that Mi. truck belonged to him and that his two employes had no Interest In tho shipment. He identified a letter found on the prisoners, addressed to him by the Ruffalo company, ordering order-ing him to truck the liquor from W.-f-lerloo and testified he had given It I to his 'employes so that If they were stopped on the road they could how they were acting In good faith. Describing his usual operations, ISOTt suld that trucks were stopped :i blot 1c from the custom house and the papers taken inside Custom of-flclnln of-flclnln then superintended all further movement. Often, the witness sniff. v. hen custom men could not be lo-IcalOd lo-IcalOd at night to check off cases. Do-I Do-I minion or provincial police officiated. oo |