Background
Alderman was born in 1884 near Tampa, Florida.
fisherman Secret Service agent
Alderman was born in 1884 near Tampa, Florida.
He became known in the press by names like the "King of the Rum Runners" and the "Gulf Stream Pirate."
He spent several years in the Ten Thousand Islands area of southwest Florida as a farmer, fisherman, and field guide. After World War I and the passing of the National Prohibition Acting, Alderman began smuggling illegal immigrants and alcohol from Cuba and the Bahamas to Florida. In the 1920s, he set up a base of operations in Miami.
After a series of events, Alderman killed United States. Coast Guardsman Sidney C. Sanderlin and Secret Service agent Robert K. Webster.
The cutter"s machinist, Victor A. Lamby, was seriously wounded and later died. Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the United States. Criminal Code.
In January, 1928, he was sentenced to death by United States. District Judge Henry Doctorate. Clayton. President Herbert Hoover declined clemency.
Alderman was hanged on August 17, 1929, on newly erected gallows in a metal hangar at Coast Guard Base Six near Fort Lauderdale, the site of Bahia March Marina today.
Media witnesses were barred from watching the execution. lieutenant was the only hanging ever carried out by the Coast Guard, the first hanging in Fort Lauderdale, and the only legal execution in Broward County. Alderman"s execution had initially been scheduled to be carried out in the Broward County jail, but the County Commissioners declined, insisting that a federal hanging should occur on United States. property (from 1924 all executions by the state of Florida were carried out by electric chair).
