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[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0634]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Is the fantastic luck of Russell Gilbert Cofer, one of Oklahoma's most publicized rum-runner about to run out at last?"
Date: October 9, 1955
Creator: Oklahoma City (Okla.). Police Department.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0642]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Russell Gilbert Cofer, who once bootlegged whiskey on a bicycle, was stabbed in the heart during a roadside fight early Saturday in southeastern Oklahoma City."
Date: September 9, 1947
Creator: East, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422B.0153]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two bootleggers fouled up the wheels of justice Monday when the voluntarily committed themselves to the county jail on whiskey possession charges."
Date: January 1, 1955
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0907.0572]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gordon Mitchell, for years " the Park Avenue bootlegger" her, hands liquor agent application to Mattie Mae Harris, ABC board receptionist."
Date: November 6, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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