Fred Weir - from our story 'Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania'

Fred Weir was one of the main figures in New Castle’s small-time underworld during prohibition, running speakeasies, gambling joints and brothels. His arrest in November, 1947, for threatening to assault someone who owed him money, may suggest that his influence was on the wane by that time.

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