Hat Abbott, after all, was a man who began his career running bootleg whisky, hurtling down country roads, and ended his life watching Lawrence Welk with the rest of America.
My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky.
There are a number of things they were accused of, including keeping bootleg whisky in the White house.
The boy was playing poker when he was 7 and running bootleg whisky at 17.
She runs the town's general store, doctors those who come to her with their ailments and, back in the swamps, tends a still that makes the best bootleg whisky in the county.
Past Instanter's only gas-lit intersection, Mr. Nitsche said, was Dewy's Confectionery, where he had a good job washing bottles for bootleg whisky during Prohibition.
The family moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1929, where the elder Smith distilled bootleg whisky for a living.
Russell wrote in his diary that Dink had a room at the back for selling bootleg whisky, and kept a gun in a sacucepan "because the police would never look there".
(The county lawyer could be counted on to call them accidental deaths from tainted bootleg whisky.)
What Molley doesn't know until it is too late is that Al and Marty work for Marty's brother Matt running bootleg whisky.