Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers Volume 2 - Hardcover

by James E. Reagen (Author)

Volume 2 Of Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers 1921 The Year of Violence

When Charles "Brocky" Livingston staggered out of his taxi in front of the Ogdensburg Police Station in 1921, the second year of Prohibition, the young cab driver was covered in blood.He described how a mysterious stranger lured him to a deserted road in Lisbon where he was shot 3 times and faced a desperate life-and-death struggle for survival.Some of the other stories include:

• Massena Votes To Defund Police, Smugglers, Bootleggers Blamed
• Smuggling Trip To Prescott Ends in Mysterious Drowning of Montgomery
• Brenno Gang Defends Red Devil Poolhall Speakeasy, Beats Up Ogdensburg Police
• Federal Agent Jailed In Canton, Threatened To Shoot Canton Cop
• Famous Opium Smuggler Busted in Massena
• Brooklyn Mobster Smuggled Booze In Madrid Cheese Plant, Died In Detroit Gangland Assassination
• Governor Miller Claimed He Ended Liquor Smuggling, Forgot To Tell Bootleggers
• Heroic State Police Troop B Wages War Against Smugglers
• Potsdam Trooper Kills Watertown Smuggler, Gets Indicted With Ogdensburg's U.S. Customs Chief
• Second Ward Tip Never Bring An Axe To An Ogdensburg Holiday Dance
• Bootlegger Attempted To Kill Helpless Trooper
• Malone Demands: Remove State Police
• Ogdensburg Moonshine Distillery Seized