Person:Commodore Wilson (1)

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Commodore Lawson Wilson
b.14 Mar 1876 Coalmont, Sullivan, Indiana
d.6 Feb 1931 Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana
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m. 14 Mar 1897
  1. John Minnich Wilson1898 - 1961
  2. Edna Esther Fay Wilson1900 - 1990
  3. Perry William Wilson1902 - 1981
  4. Margaret Honor Wilson1904 - 1999
  5. Sharrai Gayle Wilson1916 - 2000
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Name Commodore Lawson Wilson
Gender Male
Birth? 14 Mar 1876 Coalmont, Sullivan, Indiana
Marriage 14 Mar 1897 Huntington, Arkansasto Frances Ellen Smith
Death? 6 Feb 1931 Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana

Terre Haute Tribune, Tuesday, April 29, 1930:

"Police Find Still, Owner is Arrested. Raid in North Side Residence District Yields Plant and Stock. In a raid at the residence of Commodore Wilson, 54 years old, 1509 Beech Street, shortly before noon Tuesday, a squad of police, lead by Lieut. William VanPool, confiscated a 30 gallon still. Wilson was lodged in jail on a charge of violating the liquor law."

"The officers also found five barrels of mash, nine gallons of liquor, 250 pounds of sugar, a quantity of cracked corn and various pieces of apparatus used in the illicit manufacture of liquor."

"Wilson stated that he had operated the still since last November. He also admitted to the officers that he had made about 200 gallons in that time and had disposed of it at $3 a gallon. He asked to be taken into City Court Tuesday afternoon in order that he might 'plead guilty and get it over with.'"

Commodore was among the hundreds arrested in Terre Haute in those early years of Prohibition. As I was looking for this article I scanned article after article covering these arrests - mostly for small time operations like Commodore's and a few arrests of mobsters from Chicago who had set up operations in Terre Haute

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