Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-02-07
OCEAN SWALLOWS 800 CASES
OF WItlSNET.
inrmonth'" Cargo is Broachrd in
tort Hero and Captain Must
Explain Today.
MORE STILLS ARE SEIZED.
brooklyn Residents Getting Steel Safe
Doors to Guard Private Booze Gel
lars.

Somewhere Off Cape May. settling
into tic sea bottom | cS a treasure
more to be desired than the gold
do2h.ConS and pieces OF eight in the
we'll known collection Of Capt Kidd
For tho sad truth is ont that not all
Of the 10000 case; of Wh;Skcy with
which the steamship Yarmouth put
cut for Cuba are still under h2r hatch
cS. Davy Jones added to his private
stock 500 cases or COCO bottles.
which had 10 re thrown overheard
VIII lc the ship w&s battling with the
heavy seas of Che coastal storm.
This Dtiahlc rCumStanccs and soy
rral others interesting facts came to
light yesterday afternoon rs the re
suit Of visit paid to Federal Pro
hihition Agent Shclvin's Office by Ed
ward ID Smith Il young Negro who
Is secretary ot the Black Star line
under whose flag the vessel is oper
utcd.
Mr.. Smith also informed Nh Shcv
lin that the $4,000 600 cargo had been
consigned to eighteen or twenty New
York people. to I've delivered. how
ever in Havana. He said that the mani
tests and bills OF ladng had been
made out that way.
The secretary confidently told Mr..
Shcvlin that the Yarmouth WAS ey
rr"tcd to resume her interrupted voy
aGr Sunday morning having hccn pro
nonncch sCaworthy by the rcpaircrs.
nut when MIR. Shcvl II had finished
lis questioning with the request that
Captain Emshus Cockburn OF the
Yarmouth appear before him this
morning to explain some OF the mys
t""i0nS d'%aprcaranccs from the wills
key cargo which have taken place
s'nCc tie vessel returned TO New York
tN" rccrctary Of the Black Star Line
was not so certain about the sailing
date.
. MUSE EXPLAIN MISSING Wits.
KEY.
S''i'h wanted to know why the pro
riM.'i"n agents had taken charge Of
. j. vc&%ol
"Bcr1usc want to know just
y vat ycs,r intentioTS are with re-
E at. ~ tbs r>rw,." M. Shcvln
tc'f him. "Io my knowledge sixty
hG' '"% have been talon from the ship.
! W.T. t'rr disappearance explain
-. ;"' also thc rCagon why f0urt ~
cases were fonnd slowed away on the
"t'"" ""ck apparently ready to lie
moved"
Some l'cht on these qu"stioH$ l.;
cH' o~tod from the visit which Capt.
C'"hhurN win pay to the Custom
inc ~
veg r"Nhlr to oficr any explanation.
tiNN' they are answered satisfactorily
Mr.. %hoVlin told him, the aM y will no.
DO permitted to sal.
Mr.. Shcvlin questioned the steam
shin official regarding the nature OF
the dNni1@c3 which made it ncccs-
Gary for the Yarmouth to turn back.
The secretary was unable to tell
what damages had been sustained
tnt he said that he understood the
slio he'd sprung y leak. lie did not
think it was n the hull hut that q
pcr;holn had figured IN some way.
Asked why the captain had chosen
to como back to New York when there
were other ports nearer at hand the
preference to come back here. as this
cleared.
LOCK SAWED OFF A BULKIIEAD
"l'ow did one Of the hatchcss come to
re brokcn?" asked Mr.. Shevlin. I un
dcrstand that lock was sawed off
a steel bulkhard leading from the Ell
CINE room to the hold and that one OF
the wooden matches were smashed
Smith said he didn't know. but
fhot he had heard that some men had
tried to Dig through the bunkers to
get at tho whlslcy and that one man
had tried to take whole case OFF
the ship. IIc said he believed Captain
Cockburn had tho key to the hatch
es.
Continued evidence Of amateur &c
tivity in the manufacture Of booze was
uncovered yesterday by the Drohibi--
ton agents. 4 squad OF the still hun
tcrs under Ray Lotus went to an
apartment In the rear OF a shoe store
at 124 Cherry street and found fifty
eight empty grape crates. a fruit
crushcr and three barrels Of red wine.
John Vosocea, living there said that he
had made tho wine six months ago.
hut he was placed under arrest.
One man appeared at the Custom
House yesterday morning with a ono
gallon still which he wanted to surron
der. IIe was J. Mosor OF 1882 Putnam
avenue Brooklyn. He told the officers
that he had seen the contraption nd
vertised in n paper that he had bought
X to experiment with"
BARRELS OF RED WINE SEIZED
Federal Prohibition Agents Dennis
Nolan and John r.. Kilcourse found
FOUR barrels Of red vino ut 200 East
.126th street Louis Zapoig told them
no had begun to make 1t back in Sop
tember but he was ordered to appear
In the United States Attorneys Office
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