Otto P. Butler

In the final, hard winter of the Prohibition era, Federal Prohibition Agent Otto P. Butler, a 39-year-old male, was still relatively new to the dangerous work of chasing bootleggers when he was sent into the small Oklahoma community of Cushing. Born in Kansas in 1890, he had joined the Bureau of Prohibition only a few months earlier, in April 1929, and was still learning the rhythms of undercover work and federal raids. At home he had a wife and a young son named Tommy, a family that expected hi ...

Federal Prohibition Agent Otto P. Butler

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