All posts tagged "bootlegging"
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6.2K1Crime and ScandalProhibition in Vermont and the Legend of Catherine Dillon
Prohibition in Vermont started early. Liquor officially became illegal in parts of Vermont in the early 1800s, with towns demanding the right...
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5.6KCrime and ScandalVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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16.2K5Crime and ScandalCarl Rettich, The RI Mobster Who Invented Cement Shoes
When Carl Rettich moved to a seaside mansion on Warwick Neck in Warwick, R.I., people thought he was a genteel lawyer named...
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6.5KConnecticutGerald Chapman, The Gentleman Bandit With The Phony British Accent
Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated ‘Gentleman Bandit,’ might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
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