REAL RIP VAN WINKLE
BACKWOODSMAN’S WHISKY
NEVER HEARD OF PROHIBITION
John' Scliexnayder, an 82-year-old backwoodsman, lately told the Judge in the United States District Court a£ Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that he liad been making whisky for 50 years and had never heard of the prohibition laws.
Scliexnayder, who was barefooted, - and speaks only French, pleaded guilty through an interpreter to a chargd of - manufacturing intoxicating liquor. .. • The Judge placed him on probation/for five years. Among other tilings, the- > h backwoodsman, said he had not ■ been:’:, told that the American Civil War had ended, though it finished in 1805. ,v/::
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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99REAL RIP VAN WINKLE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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