Tag: Q2 1923
Bootleggers Get a Free Pass from the Feds?
In a shocking move, the Interior Department has come under fire for allegedly giving the green light to bootleggers in the West. Secretary of the Interior Work has ordered a sweeping investigation into the reclamation projects in the region, amid charges of excessive overhead expenditures. The probe will be led by Special Assistant Secretary D.W.…
Fred Ilell Arrested for Theft, Goshen CA, 1923
April 6th, 1923 – The small town of Goshen, California, was left shaken after a brazen heist rocked the community. Fred Ilell, a local resident, reported to the authorities that his prized prune orchard had been stolen, leaving him with nothing but a barren landscape of sixty-six uprooted trees. The cunning thief had taken the…
Rubys, Bootlegging, New York 1922
Washington D.C., April 5, 1923 – In a shocking turn of events, Thomas W. Hewitt, a 29-year-old former member of the famous Lafayette Escadrille, has been arrested and charged with transporting and possessing liquor in the nation’s capital. Just a week ago, Hewitt filed an affidavit against Prohibition Agent Ralph J. Ruby, accusing him of…
