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The Government "Investigates": The Story of the Wirkkula Killing
Harris, Abraham I. | July 24, 1929 issue

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Of all the shootings by customs patrolmen engaged in preventing liquor smuggling from Canada, the slaying of Henry Wirkkula near International Falls, Minnesota, has unquestionably caused the greatest embarrassment to the government. The Treasury Department had hitherto been callous, at least outwardly, to criticism in such matters, but the protests growing out of the International Falls incident had an immediate effect. The Department found it necessary to instruct border patrolmen to exercise greater caution in the use of firearms, and it also ordered the withdrawal of the sawed-off shotguns with which such officers along the greater part of the Canadian border were armed.

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LIQUOR industry; SMUGGLING; CRITICISM; BOOTLEGGING; CRIME; CANADA
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