In the quiet hills of eastern Kentucky, a tale of lawlessness and tragedy unfolded in the winter of 1908. Special Deputy Sheriff Wiley Litteral, a 45-year-old man, met a violent end on Saturday, December 5th, while upholding the law in a remote area known as Coon Creek, near Louisa in Lawrence County. His death was the grim outcome of a raid on a residence suspected of housing an illicit moonshine operation, a common and often dangerous enterprise in the region.
On that fateful day, Deput
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