6/23/2023 0 Comments John lewis marble run![]() ![]() He was pardoned by President Hoover in mid-1932, even before prohibition ended in 1933. When the government wanted Herb to turn state's evidence and name the shooter, Herb refused and went to prison for three years. Unfortunately, one of the rum-runners fired a shot in the ensuing melee and killed one of the T-men. He was supervising a large landing of booze in Moss Landing when his party was raided by Treasury agents. By the late 1920s he wound up in prison for rum running. ![]() managed in that same year to be both building patrol boats for the Treasury agents who were attempting to enforce prohibition, and indicted for running rum. The 20s were the decade of prohibition and Herb Sr. ![]() In the early 1920s he was elected to the City Council and by 1925 was Mayor of the town for the first time. In 1915 he bought land on the Sausalito waterfront and, with his brother, founded what later became Madden and Lewis, one of the largest wooden boat-building firms in Sausalito history. He helped run a successful delivery business to Sausalito in the early teens (pre GG Bridge) of the last century. He started as a skilled Boatwright, claiming to have been a foreman on the building of Jack London's "Snark". ![]() was a man of many skills and roles and paradoxes. ![]()
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