Federal Jesse Leroy Youmans

In the quiet darkness near Hartsville, South Carolina, on April 3, 1923, Federal Prohibition Agent Jesse Leroy Youmans was part of a team of officers conducting surveillance on an illicit still. The 40-year-old male agent and his colleagues watched as the still workers went about their business, planning to move in and make their arrests. However, the workers seemingly sensed that something was wrong. As Agent Youmans rose to advance on the location, one of the workers shone a flashlight in his ...

Federal Prohibition Agent Jesse Leroy Youmans