Charles Carroll Rouse, a 34-year-old man, was working as a federal Prohibition agent in Baltimore when a tip drew him and two fellow agents into the city’s back-alley world of nighttime liquor deliveries. Word had reached the agents that illegal alcohol was being brought night after night to a house on Wayson Alley, and they set up surveillance, waiting for the routine to repeat itself. When a vehicle finally arrived and liquor began moving into an open garage, the quiet stakeout broke into su
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