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Dutch Schultz: The Malone Trial
Dutch Schultz (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After living as a free man for his Malone trial, Dutch Schultz was remanded to jail on July 23, 1935. For the first day, he had to endure the same food as the other prisoners. This included sardines, boiled potatoes and cabbage, tea or water–certainly not the fare we serve today. However, …[ read more ]
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The Dutch Schultz and Malone: Part 1
Prohibition ended in 1933, but Malone ‘s last hurrah with it came in the summer of 1935 when the gangster Dutch Schultz came to town. Schultz, whose real name was Arthur Flegenheimer , made his fortune bootlegging . He dodged $92,000 in taxes on $481,000 income. He said he was told he didn’t have to pay taxes on it …[ read more ]
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Bootlegging Buffoonery
1931 Packard 833: it’d be a shame to shoot up this beauty. Information for this article was found in: Mooney, Elizabeth C. “War on Rum Road.” Adirondack Life . November 1980. Buffoonery in Rumrunning ? Yes, some of the things people did in the name of booze was quite funny. And there were no shortages of risk takers …[ read more ]
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Moonshine Madness: The Source of Prohibition Alcohol
Prescription form for medicinal liquor (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Prohibition did not stop drinking–in many ways it glamorized it. For example, people began flavoring the whiskey with fruit drinks and sodas, making cocktails. o to any bar today and look at the wonderful, colorful creations with the alcohol masked by alluring flavors. Since drinking didn’t stop …[ read more ]
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Bootlegging In Malone
Mary Riley Road–top left, in pink Lost Nation Road–to the right, in blue Bootlegging was not considered a big deal–thus when Dutch Schultz arrived in Malone, NY for his second tax-evasion trial, no one thought of him as a gangster. Grandpa and Dad both made hooch in the barn. English: Dutch Schultz 1935 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) However Malone saw …[ read more ]