Narcotics Bust

ID: 1450 ~ Source: "Wilson “Big Bruce” Broussard Looking Over Pills Confiscated from the Royal Tavern" Newspapers.com. The Daily Advertiser, January 1, 1952. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-advertiser-wilson-big-bruce/143166934/. ~ Date: 1952

This file appears in: Rich History at the Royal Tavern: Twenty years of Roy Gathe's legacy, the Royal Tavern

Wilson "Big Bruce" Broussard of the Lafayette police department looks over some pills confiscated at a drug bust at the Royal Tavern

This file appears in: Rich History at the Royal Tavern: Twenty years of Roy Gathe's legacy, the Royal Tavern

Rich History at the Royal Tavern: Twenty years of Roy Gathe's legacy, the Royal Tavern

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