Chapter 2On the west side of Boston, the atmosphere was equally gloomy, although for a very different reason. The police, in cooperation with the Bureau of Investigation, had already planned raids on illegal moonshiners before Christmas: now all that was needed was to realise those plans.
Everything, of course, in line with the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Resolution, of course. The bandits – for that is what they were – who were bootlegging liquor were to be caught, charged, and convicted, and the liquor was to be destroyed by committee.
At least in theory.
In practice things looked different. Late at night West Roxbury was not particularly distinctive, but for the trained eye the sight of a few more cars pulling up in the last few minutes could be unsettling, just like unifor
