Later I discovered he had been a bootlegger and moonshiner during prohibition and had gone to live on the mountain to flee a gang who thought he owed them money. |
It was evident that the moonshiner was mellow from draughts of his own potent product. |
The moonshiner believed that I would protect him as my prisoner. |
His venture as a moonshiner at all events was, so to speak, a side line of employ. |
In 1930, officer Oscar Lee Duley was shot and killed near Marcola by moonshiner Ray Sutherland. |
The moonshiner himself was in prison, leaving his wife to quite literally run the business from a battered Model T Ford. |