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...
Moonshine
Notorious WV Moonshiner Caught
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,...
Moonshine Still Found in the Penitentiary
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,
Bootlegger William Bonds Convicted
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...
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.
Stamper Moonshine Captured
U.S. Marshall Geo. W. Castle, of Grayson and a posse, captured a large moonshine plant last Thursday. It was being operated by French [Frank?-mm] Stamper.
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
Illegally Selling Liquor 1871
Ironton-Silas Hill and James Gossett were convicted of horse stealing in the common pleas court, and eleven persons were fined from $15 to $60 each for selling liquor.Source: The Vinton Record,...
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.
Bootlegger Liquor and Moonshiners
Bootleggers, liquor, and the making of moonshine – Most of the following stories happened in Southern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia, with the focus being on the area of Lawrence County, Ohio, and the surrounding counties.
Crimes 1909-1948
Five Men Shot After Whisky Trial – Battle of Proctorville, Ohio Crimes-Five men wounded in gun battle following a whisky trial