ISSUE 04-09-22 OLD CHURCH TALK APRIL 24 ON ‘4-LEGGED BOOTLEGGER’

The Corrales Historical Society’s next presentation in its speakers series comes Sunday, April 24 when Chuck Hornung delivers a talk on “The Four-Legged Boot-Legger: a tale of New Mexico state mounted police.” It begins at 2 p.m. at the Old Church.

Among the topics is how a U.S. District Attorney prosecuted a horse for running illegal booze. The horse’s defense team was headed by a former justice of the N.M. Supreme Court.

The talk is free and open to the public.