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James E. Reagen

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

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

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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.
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