View Full Version : Queen of the Mountain Bootleggers' dies at
age 101  12-07-2005, 08:13 My scanner is on the blilnk...This
was published in the Lexington Herald, Tuesday, December 6,2005,
Lexington, KY.  <font color="red"> 'Queen of the Mountain
Bootleggers' dies at age 101...BAILEY/She knew the ins and outs
of search and seizure law. By Jennifer Hewlett, HERALD LEADER
STAFF WRITER </font>  Maggie Bailey, known as "The Queen of the
Mountain Bootleggers", died of complications from pneumonia
Saturday at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. The Kentucky
legend, who began selling moonshine when she was 17 and was
still selling alcohol from her modest home at Clovertown in
Harlan County when she was 95, was 101.  Over and over again,
often despite a preponderance of the evidence against her, Mrs.
Bailey beat charges of illegally selling alcoholic beverages.
Juries just would not convict her.  "Everybody knew her and she
had helped everybody. Why do you bite the hand that feeds you,
as the old saying goes", sai