Mary Curley was the bootlegger to catch in Marble, Colorado. After traveling from Ireland so her husband could join the Marble Mining trade, Mary opened up a hotel to start a business of her own and distill moonshine. It was in the hotel basement where she brewed her batches using water from the Crystal River, fed by the pristine Rocky Mountains. Notorious for frequent run-ins with the law, she never did pay a single penny of the bootlegging fines tied to her name. On a January night, the town Marshall raided Curleyʼs hotel saloon and she was arrested. Determined to not pay up, she served her sentence by making her cell a home by requesting that her stove and cooking supplies be delivered to the jail. A caring woman at her core, Curley was said to have cooked meals for her weary jail cell neighbors.
