Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland:: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign by Jd Chandler, Theresa Griffin Kennedy

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland:: Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

Jd Chandler, Theresa Griffin Kennedy

160 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history travel true crime
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The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market....

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