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When the case of John Miller, colored, 44 years old, charged with selling intoxicating liquor, was called for trial in Municipal court Tuesday, the accused changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and Judge McCall ordered him to pay a fine of $100 and costs after hearing the circumstances which brought about Miller’s arrest.

Armed with a search warrant issued from Probate court on a complaint made by A. Z. Blair, Deputy Sheriffs Frank Bennett and Wanzer? Rickey raided the home of Frank Valentine on the Powellsville road,

Still Found; Owner Missing - December 1921 Armed with a search warrant, the police Friday evening raided the home of Vernon Lowdenback on Lincoln Street and uncovered a ten-gallon copper still of the wash boiler type and two barrels partly filled with mash in process...

Whitman Accused of Having Still - 2 Nov. 1921 Holly Whitman, proprietor of a soft drink establishment on Chillicothe street, near Eleventh, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon on a charge of violating the prohibition laws after state prohibition enforcement...

Five men wounded in gun battle following a whisky trial at Proctorville, Ohio.  Wounded were:

• Alta Pine, farmer, shot five times and probably fatally wounded
• John Smith, shot through the leg
• Harry Pine, shot through the leg
• Dillie Edwards shot through the leg; and another man unknown shot through the body.

Wife Gives Police Tip That Her Husband, Howard Hutchinson, Has Been Operating Still; Both Arrested - 23 May 1921 The police captured a complete and up-to-date whiskey-making outfit consisting of a copper still of the wash boiler type, and worm, together with a small...

On his plea of guilty to a charge of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, Ernest Park, was handed a fine of $1,000 and costs by Judge Sprague in Municipal court Saturday morning.

“Still” Run Down by N & W Train; Owners are in Jail - 16 May 1921 Two alleged bootleggers, John Webb, aged 26? years and H. O. Adams, 49? years old, claiming to live in Adams county, six miles southwest of Peebles, Ohio, on the Steam Furnace Pike, came to grief...

Owner Tosses Still Out of Car and Makes His Getaway - 12 March 1921 Marshall Frank Hall, of New Boston, “captured” a still Friday afternoon, but the owner made his getaway. Marshall Hall was at the mayor’s office in New Boston when he received a telephone call that...

Two Make Getaway but Officers Say They Were Identified - Plant Is Seized - 1921 Four men giving their names as Thurman Thompson, Charles Odle, Charles Clifford, and Harry Beckman were arrested and two others said by officers to be Luther Ode and his son, Dallas Odle,...

Notorious West Virginia Moonshiner Caught at Louisa - 1920 R. A. Stone arrested a man her Wednesday evening said to be known as the “king bee” amongst moonshiners and bootleggers in Boone county, WV. His name is Roman Burgess, alias James Thompson. He is under...

An embryo moonshine distillery has just been unearthed at the penitentiary it is reported. Guards, it is said, caught Charles Mims, Scioto county forger, stealing corn and molasses from the prison kitchen. Mims, who is said to be a former Kentucky moonshiner,

Another Bootlegger Convicted at Waverly, Ohio - 1915 Another arrest and conviction in the Waverly bootlegging cases were had Friday, when William Bonds, familiarly known as “Hoop Pole Bill”, was taken in town on a charge of illegally selling liquor. He pleaded guilty...

On Friday the 13th inst., about sundown, a row took place at the house of Widow Canter, some two miles from Monroe Furnace, Jackson Co., between some Irishmen and Perry Price, Wm. Canter and Levi Canter – all intoxicated. Wm. Mack, an Irishman, stabbed and killed Levi Canter.