Sunday, October 16, 2016
Machine Gun in Prohibition Cars
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Battle – Minot was also the home of many high speed
automobile chases in connection with the bootlegging activities. One national
magazine was quoted as saying “Minot has more high performance vehicles per
capita than any other city in America”. These powerful cars, Buicks at the
time, were the favored car of the bootleggers. One high speed chase resulted in
the arrest of the proprietor of the Last Chance Barbershop on Central Avenue.
In a shootout, whiskey-runner Avery Erickson was fatally shot by Officer F.S.
Fahler, who later died from wounds received in the same encounter. In 1921 when
state prohibition forces opened their northwest regional headquarters in Minot,
they announced that their cars would be equipped with Browning machine guns.
The office was closed a few years later
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