Diver1111
02-06-2010, 09:05 PM
I read this article and immediately thought of the alleged load of rum/booze on the bottom of Lake Winni-again-allegedly-due to a chase and subsequent shoot-out on the water between LE and rum-runners during the Prohibition off Rum Point in Alton.
Story goes that the runners scuttled the boat during the altercation.
I'm still on this Rum Point/Rum-runner tale-but have little information to actually work. But my prior posts clearly indicate that booze smuggling was a major enterprise during Prohibition, for the most part coming down from Canada.
2 articles attached. As they are from old old newspapers and in the Adobe pdf format, click on the +- button in the pdf to blow them up so you can read them.
Imagine finding cases of booze from the 1920's on the bottom of Lake Winni? Wow-I bet the taste would be amazing.
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/ernest-shackletons-whiskey-found-buried-near-south-pole/19347440?icid=main|main|dl1|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fwww .aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fernest-shackletons-whiskey-found-buried-near-south-pole%2F19347440
Any help appreciated.
D1111
Story goes that the runners scuttled the boat during the altercation.
I'm still on this Rum Point/Rum-runner tale-but have little information to actually work. But my prior posts clearly indicate that booze smuggling was a major enterprise during Prohibition, for the most part coming down from Canada.
2 articles attached. As they are from old old newspapers and in the Adobe pdf format, click on the +- button in the pdf to blow them up so you can read them.
Imagine finding cases of booze from the 1920's on the bottom of Lake Winni? Wow-I bet the taste would be amazing.
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/ernest-shackletons-whiskey-found-buried-near-south-pole/19347440?icid=main|main|dl1|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fwww .aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fernest-shackletons-whiskey-found-buried-near-south-pole%2F19347440
Any help appreciated.
D1111