Then Again: A bootlegging gone bad launched career of Vermont’s first woman lieutenant governor

The 1926 murder trial of Walter Mason put prosecutor Consuelo Bailey in the limelight. Items related to the trial — Bailey’s handwritten notes, court summons for witnesses and newspaper clippings — are housed at Special Collections at the University of Vermont’s Bailey-Howe Library. Photo by Mark Bushnell
Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.&