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Tag: crime in Appalachia

Breaking up a still, Jonesboro, Tenn., c. 1920
October 8, 2010 Appalachian crime / Prohibition / Virginia

Heroes and Villains: Robert Chapman Osborne

On that Sunday evening in 1927, one-armed deputy Chap Osborne approached the vehicle he had just stopped, with his gun drawn.

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doll with pins in it against roaring flame background
August 18, 2010 Appalachian crime / Doctors / Maryland

Embarrassed wife has Oakland’s first doctor executed

Ann Johnson believed she deserved more from life than to work in a general store owned by her husband, Cornelius, & live in the backwoods.

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b&w lineart college thief, moonshine still, murderer
January 18, 2007 Caves and spelunking / Moonshiners / West Virginia

Stalagmites, Stalactites, Moonshine

WV’s largest caverns: Seneca Caverns. Huge chambers, majestic views for visitors…hiding places for bootleggers, horse thieves & murderers.

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