The Bootlegger
Subtitle: A STORY OF SMALL-TOWN AMERICA
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780252068447
Subjects: True crime; Illinois - Local History; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / 19th Century
First sentence: On April 8, 1929, shortly after nine o'clock in the evening, in the quiet little town of Colchester, Illinois, a man named Henry Wagle, whom everyone called "Kelly," was shot dead on the street a few hundred feet from his front door.