Moonshine

Whiskey Leads to Murder

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.

Murder of a Moonshiner

Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 1. – Peter Bowles, a moonshiner, and ex-convict, was murdered yesterday, and just before he died accused Thomas Trail and Albert Maynard.

Bowles throat was slashed, and his body riddled with bullets. The murder was committed at the home of Trail at Burnside.  According to the statement made before he died, Bowles staled that Maynard and he were Infatuated with Trail’s daughter. The two met at the latter’s homes.

1874 – 1896

Lizzie Stamper, a young woman who went to Portsmouth, Ohio, about two weeks age from Lewis county, was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Prichard of Lewis county, Kentucky, on the charge of selling whisky without a license. The Marshal says the woman belonged

Guyandotte Crimes 1853

GUYANDOTTE, VA. – We are glad to learn from the Guyandotte Herald, that the hand of improvement has at last reached that locality, and that it seems to be rapidly changing its former character. The editor is right in admitting that it was a ‘hard place’ a few years since, the hardest, that ever we planted foot in. We spent a day there in the summer of 1844, and must say, that of all the vile and abominable holes we ever fell into, Guyandotte was the worst.

It was then a mere cluster of rickety, tumble-down groggeries and dwellings, with grease, fifth, drunkenness, brawling and blasphemy within, and mud, discomfort and desolation without.

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