Newnan police Chief Walter E. Askew mentioned in his diary today that a Newnan man who had been killed in a car accident in Mississippi was buried and that the weather was nice. What he did not mention was a liquor raid by federal Prohibition agents in Meriwether County that sent two men to the Newnan Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.

One was shot in the back. Such incidents were becoming all too common as the Hoover administration tried a last, desperate crackdown on moonshine makers, rumrunners and bootleggers to make Prohibition work. The story was published on the front pages of newspapers around the state as well as the Newnan Herald.

The shootout occurred near Alvaton early Sunday morning, Aug. 17, 1930. Newspaper reports said a raiding party of federal agents led by a

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