Publisher's Synopsis
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.
