# Bootleggers' wrecked car after a chase by Capitol police, Washington (21 January 1922)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89709483-capitol-police-bootleggers-chase-1922/

Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a wrecked automobile and bystanders after a chase through Washington streets. The title says the bootleggers "come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police".

The Library of Congress title begins "After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington" and says a couple of bootleggers and their car "come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police." The photograph shows a wrecked automobile and bystanders in a street. It is National Photo Company No. 18491, dated 21 January 1922.

The same event is shown in another Library of Congress item, 2016832404, titled "Bootlegger's wreck, 1/21/22." The FBI's history article filed here as the Bureau and the Great Experiment also uses a Library of Congress photograph of a 1922 Capitol Police car chase. The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/89709483/