SOBRIETY BY KILLING.
QUEER METHODS IN U.S.A. MOONSHINER. SHOT DEAD. PIKEVILLE (U.S.), Dec. 28. Well known, as an intrepid feudist and mountain moonshiner, Willie Fleming was mortally wounded by Government prohibition agents near Pikeville, in Kentucky. It was a desperate battle, fought on a mountain crest. Fleming had barricaded his aged mother in a log cabin. It has been a family boast that no Fleming wqs ever taken alive. Fleming’s father and brothers all died with their boots on, killed in various shooting episodes among the mountains.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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87SOBRIETY BY KILLING. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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