WOMAN ARRESTED FOR TRANSPORTING BUTCHERED HOGS CONTAINING JUGS OF MOONSHINE
Weirton, West Virginia (JFK+50) On January 19. 1924, The Evening Star reports that yesterday prohibition officers stopped "a woman driving a horse and wagon into Weirton*" and discovered "the interior of each of the large freshly-butchered hogs" she was carrying "contained a ten-gallon jug of moonshine."
Mrs. Mary Tolpovich was arrested for "transporting liquor from Pennsylvania into West Virginia." She was sentenced to pay a $200 fine and serve sixty days in jail. Her husband is already serving six months in Ohio County prison for liquor possession.
*Weirton is located along the Ohio River in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The town was founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909.
SOURCE
"Woman Jailed For Smuggling Liquor in Pigs," Weirton, West Virginia, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 19, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, ww.loc.gov/
