All posts tagged "bootlegging"
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9.4K1Crime 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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9.4KCrime and ScandalVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard: A Tale of Bigamy and Bootlegging in the Roaring ’20s
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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23.4K5Crime 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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10.3KConnecticutGentleman Gerald Chapman, Connecticut’s Celebrity Gangster
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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8.7K8Crime and ScandalOliver Garrett, Boston’s Booze-Busting Million-Dollar Cop
When dashing Oliver Garrett was in charge of it during Prohibition, the Boston Police vice squad made 25,000 raids and 17,000 arrests...
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