Crimes

Bootleggers Wounded After Gun Duel

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.

Minnie Copper Still Tossed

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...

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.

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