“MOONSHINE" BATTLE.
TWELVE OFFICERS KILLED. GANG TRAPPED IK FOREST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ißecd. 5 p.m.) VANCOUVER. Doc, 15. At Lexington, Kentucky, a dozen Federal prohibition officers were killed by the so-called " Moonshine Monarch " gang of Kentucky, but. the gang lost one of their number in a battle which followed in a mountain fastness. Eleven or twelve officers seeking vengeance then surrounded tho Moonshine gang in a forest dug-out and opened fire. They killed the leader and one of his brothers surrendered. Another brother escaped, together with four Moonshiners.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 7
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90“MOONSHINE" BATTLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 7
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