Volume 17 , Issue 22

July 1915 - Wichita's Police Chief Arrested As Bootlegger

In The Guthrie Daily Leader, 7 July 1915, Wednesday, we found this article concerning a "Wichita's Police Chief Arrested As Bootlegger." We know there were bootleggers abound in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Wichita, KS, July 7 (1915) -- O. K. Stewart, chief of pockier of Wichita, was arrested on this date on a charge of selling whiskey.

The arrest followed Henry Allen's testimony before the county attorney of Sedgwick county, telling of how his representatives had purchased liquor. The arrest of the chief created great excitement. Allen was publisher of the Wichita Beacon and had been making war on bootleggers.
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