THE CASE OF THE BERYL G

Softcover. In the early hours of September 17, 1924, the 'Beryl G', a non-descript wooden workboat, crewless, blood-smeared and bullet-riddled, was found adrift in Haro Strait just south of the international boundary dividing Canada and the US on the west coast. The gruesome discovery set off a continent-wide manhunt that led eventually to one of the most sensational murder trials of the decade of the Roaring Twenties. The era of Prohibition in the US made criminals out of many otherwise law-abiding citizens on both sides of the border. But it also attracted the true criminal element - desperate men who would stop at nothing, including murder, to make their fortune. Si Sowash and Cannon Baker were 2 such men. The trial of these 2 desperadoes for the hijacking and murder of the crew of the Beryl G exposed the darkest underbelly of the world of rumrunning. With Bibliog. 203pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With small mks. to fore-edge, but no creasing to covers. Vg+