Florida Banker’s Bootlegging Bust: Miami’s Prohibition Puzzle

In a shocking turn of events, Florida’s banking world was shaken to its core when C.M. Clayton, vice president of the Miami National Bank, was arrested on charges of liquor smuggling. The arrest was the latest development in a high-stakes crackdown on bootlegging in the Sunshine State. On Tuesday, March 21, 1922, Clayton was taken into custody, along with Y.C. Phelps and T.X. Lewis, in a raid led by Colonel L.C. Hunt, a determined anti-prohibition agent at the internal revenue service.