Five men wounded in gun battle following a whisky trial at Proctorville, Ohio. Wounded were:
Seventy-Five gallons of mash was found when seeing a copper worm hanging up on the kitchen wall, a copper still peeking from behind the cookstove, 75 gallons of mash “working” in a large receptacle in a corner,
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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,...