{"id":254923,"date":"2023-01-25T18:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=254923"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:30:59","slug":"lost-vegas-libertys-last-stand-was-not-what-it-seemed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/lost-vegas-libertys-last-stand-was-not-what-it-seemed\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST VEGAS: Liberty\u2019s Last Stand Was Not What It Seemed"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s appropriate that the hottest bar to open in Las Vegas in 1931 opened on April Fool\u2019s Day. More on that in a moment.<\/p>\n

\"LIberty's
Liberty’s Last Stand was the most notorious speakeasy to open in Las Vegas during Prohibition. (Image:\u00a0 UNLV Special Collections)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liberty\u2019s Last Stand, located at 10 Stewart Ave. downtown, was a dilapidated Wild West saloon packed with the city\u2019s best booze and worst drunks.<\/p>\n

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W.W. \u201cBill\u201d Cantrill owned the building. He was also the self-appointed \u201cboss of the red light district,\u201d and his \u201cFish and Shrimp\u201d bar on the adjacent Block 16 was a front for the prostitution going down in 10 rooms out back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What the customers, liquor suppliers, and even the bartenders didn\u2019t know about Liberty\u2019s Last Stand was that it was a front, too. Ralph Kelly, acting as an undercover agent for the US Justice Department, had rented the space from Cantrill to aid in a sting operation against the bootleggers hired to supply it.<\/p>\n

Even the local police didn\u2019t know \u2013 because the sting was meant to ensnare them, too.<\/p>\n

Get it now \u2013 Liberty’s Last Stand?<\/em><\/p>\n

Prohibition Opposition<\/b><\/h2>\n

By then, Nevada had enough of Prohibition, which began 103 years ago last week. That’s when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment as a well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to lower the crime rate, improve general health, and raise the morals of its citizens.<\/p>\n

More than half of Nevada\u2019s adults drank illegally, either from bottles at home or at the city\u2019s numerous illegal speakeasies. The magazine Literary Digest,<\/em> which published public opinion polls on Prohibition, found that Nevada had the highest rate of Prohibition opposition in the country. Even Las Vegas\u2019 mayor, Fred Hesse, was arrested for operating an illegal still in 1928.<\/p>\n

\"Prohibition\"
Before this carefully staged photo was taken, sometime in the mid 1920s, you can be assured that most of these patrons of the Northern \u2013 one of several Las Vegas establishments that openly flouted Prohibition laws \u2013 were holding a drink. (Image: UNLV Special Collections)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nevada voted to repeal Prohibition \u2013 which it also had on the state level \u2013 in 1923. But it was a symbolic gesture. Alcohol would still be federally illegal for 10 more years.<\/p>\n

\u201cProhibition was unsuccessful in Las Vegas because we have never, as a community, had an appetite for controlling vice,\u201d Claire White, director of education for the Las Vegas Mob Museum, told Casino.org.<\/em> \u201cThis was a town that was wet before Prohibition, it was wet during Prohibition, and it only got wetter after Prohibition ended.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Nevada no longer had a state Prohibition statute, police officers in the state were not technically duty-bound to enforce national Prohibition laws. Las Vegas did have a city ordinance against alcohol. But fines for violating that were considered a cost of doing business.<\/p>\n

The situation is reminiscent of today\u2019s confusing and conflicting state and federal laws regarding the legality of cannabis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s very difficult to legislate morality, so there are definitely comparisons to be made,\u201d White said. \u201cThe voters who pushed prohibition through Nevada\u2019s legislature were not necessarily the majority in most of Nevada\u2019s counties. State and city law enforcement didn’t want to enforce it. It was costly. It was time-consuming. It didn’t really benefit them. And many of them personally drank and had no problem with drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice Principles<\/b><\/h2>\n

We wrote that Kelly was acting<\/em> as an undercover agent. He was really just a wannabe who happened to be friends with a federal officer. Since Kelly knew all the speakeasy owners and suppliers in town, that officer hooked him up with Special Agent Wayn Kain of the Justice Department, who drove down from San Francisco to set up the sting with Kelly in February.<\/p>\n

A fake speakeasy was concocted as the easiest way to nab the producers, distributors, and transporters of alcohol.<\/p>\n

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For Liberty\u2019s Last Stand, Kain directed Kelly to buy liquor from multiple distributors and pay them with bank checks to form a paper trail. Kelly easily contracted for whiskey, gin, absinthe, and beer. In exchange for his role in the ruse, Kelly claimed, he was promised money and a position as a Prohibition agent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the back of their new speakeasy, Kain hid a Dictaphone recording device, which would pick up conversations with unknowing government officials \u2013 including local US Commissioner W.H. Hooper, who stopped by one day requesting a bribe. (Oops!) It also captured a fellow speakeasy operator stating that he paid the Las Vegas chief of police, Percy Nash, $100 a month for protection from the city\u2019s anti-drinking ordinance.<\/p>\n

\"Prohibition
Prohibition officers pose with illegal bootlegging equipment taken during a raid in Fallon, Nev. in 1923. (Image: Nevada Magazine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three weeks after it opened, the fake bar closed, and the real fun began. Using the evidence gathered at Liberty’s Last Stand, 55 agents were summoned from San Francisco, Reno, and Los Angeles to execute the raid. (Because of its small size \u2013 5,165 people as of 1930 \u2013 and remote location, Las Vegas had no federal building, court, or office space for Prohibition agents.) They arrived on May 18, 1931.<\/p>\n

The Prohibition agents had to drive all the way down from San Francisco because local law enforcement refused to enforce the federal law,\u201d White said. \u201cThat\u2019s an uncomfortably long drive today, but just imagine it without the interstate highway system or air conditioning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kelly and Kain bought another bar on Boulder Highway, four miles from Las Vegas. (Unfortunately, its name is lost to time.) They ordered illegal booze from 12 bootleggers to be delivered there. As the trucks arrived in the morning, the 20 Prohibition agents with Kelly and Kain arrested 35 suspects. The other 35 agents raided 25 speakeasies, five breweries, and three stills.<\/p>\n

In all, the agents made somewhere between 100 and 200 arrests that day. (Sources vary.) In addition to bootleggers, saloon owners, and crooked cops, they included the local administrator for Prohibition, W.G. Walker. Neither Hooper nor Nash was arrested, but both resigned shortly after that. More than 220 gallons of whiskey, 15 gallons of gin, and 15 gallons of beer were seized.<\/p>\n

The bootleggers received the heaviest sentences of those convicted \u2014 a year and a day in jail.<\/p>\n

Kelly never received any money for his part in the largest raid in Nevada history at the time. But Kain lived up to his promise to get him a job as a Prohibition agent. Unfortunately, he could only hold onto it briefly \u2013 until he failed the required civil service exam. At least Kelly got to write and publish Liberty\u2019s Last Stand, <\/em>his 1932 book about the raid.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s so easy for us to look back and question how Prohibition happened or to assume that if it became a law that people were clearly on the up-and-up about it,\u201d White said, \u201cbut you know, from day one, this was just an opportunity for people ostensibly on both sides of the law to make a bunch of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLost Vegas\u201d is an occasional\u00a0Casino.org\u00a0<\/em>series featuring remembrances of Las Vegas\u2019 lesser-known history. Click here<\/a> to read other entries in the series. Think you know a good Vegas story lost to history? Email corey@casino.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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