ENFORCING PROHIBITION
BATTLE WITH GANG OF MOONSHINERS. THE LEADER. KILLED. United Service Telegrams. '.Received 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 16 At Lexington, Kentucky, a party of Federal prohibition officers killed the so called ncorshino monarch of Kentucky. but lost one of their own number in a battle following the pursuit of ti e niocriluner s into the mountain fastnesses There tho officers surrounded tho gang i* a forest dugout, and opened fire which resulted in the death of the leader, tho surrender of on© of liis broil er„ and the escape of another along with four of tho moonshiners.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6793, 18 December 1922, Page 2
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