To staffers on the small (circ. 11,456) Shawnee, Okla. News-Star, there were unmistakable signs of a quiet invasion. Bootleggers and gamblers, driven from Oklahoma City 40 miles to the east, were settling in Shawnee, where local police were lax in enforcing the state's dry laws. The News-Star, Shawnee's only daily newspaper, had been as lax as the police. Then the paper got a stunning reason for changing its ways.
News-Star Reporter Jim Bradshaw, 32, went to County Sheriff Jim Harrington's office to find out why a known bootlegger for whom there was an arrest warrant had not been picked up. In a...
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