• Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers: North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You - Paperback
Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers: North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You
Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers: North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You

    Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers: North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You - Paperback

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    by James E. Reagen (Author)

    What Grandpa Never Told You... A Lot of Northern New York Families Made a Shady Living As Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Booze Runners During Prohibition

    • 1920 - First Year of Prohibition: A Watertown police officer leaped from a moving taxi onto a fleeing car to arrest Massena bootleggers.
    • Federal agents raided Ogdensburg by land and sea to crack down on rum-running.
    • 2 Potsdam ministers helped federal agents conduct righteous speakeasy raids.
    • Ogdensburg's Fred Lassail: Bootlegger and Dad.
    • A high-speed chase down the streets of Massena led to the arrest of Potsdam bootleggers.
    • An Ogdensburg mayoral candidate defended the city's leading speakeasy owner.
    • 12,000 quarts of liquor were seized on a ship docked at Cardinal, Ontario by Prescott Customs agents after the booze showed up in Ogdensburg.
    • An ALCOA crane operator's suicide in Massena was blamed on bootlegging, smuggling, and gambling.
    • Gouverneur's Fred Scozzafava crashed into the New York Central train in DeKalb while hauling a load of smuggled booze.
    • Ogdensburg's Joseph Rish's colorful career as a speakeasy owner.
    • Burglars robbed the U.S. Customs House for Booze at Rouses Point.
    • Cranberry Lake, Norfolk, Pyrites, and others raided.
    • Federal G-Men Led Raids Across Northern New York.
    Number of Pages: 160
    Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN
    Publication Date: December 09, 2022
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