Mr. Lanham Revisited: Oct. 11, 1926

He is tickled by a drunken man in court; there's a shoot-out in Chicago

It was a rainy day, but even so business was good at Lanham & Sons. On top of that, Mr. Lanham presided over a “rather large” police court in the morning. One of the people who appeared before him was still drunk and “especially funny,” he wrote.

It was lucky for Mr. Lanham that he didn’t hold court in Chicago. Outside the courthouse, the Prohibition kin…