On This Day in West Virginia History, December 11th

December 11, 2022

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

On December 11, 1907, a Federal judge sentenced ten persons to prison for conspiring to defraud the federal government in a Lincoln County bankruptcy case.

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