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Ketchikan Prohibition Raid Ends With Shootout
Newt Casperson, a notable Ketchikan and Cordova businessman, was shot three times during a raid on his upstairs room at Otto Sobere’s store. Prohibition officer D. W. Flanagan returned fire. Casperson and Charles Frazer were arrested for violations of the Alaska Bone Dry Act. Casperson’s condition is reported as improving, with the most serious wound in the leg.
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Newt Casperson
Ketchikan
Cordova
Prohibition
Chronicle
Newt. Casperson
Arthur Yates Memorial Hospital
D. W. Flannevan
Otto “Sobere
Casperson
R.V. Ellis
Charles Frazer
Commissioner’s Court
H. D. Stabler
United States Attorney
Fanagan
George Naud
LeRoy Moyer
Flanagan
Stabler
Reed
Shim
Casnerson
Frazer
Moyer
United States
Charles H. Miller