The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-21
DORY FLEET TAKES
RUM Off SCHOONER
Three Mile Limit Off MOntauk
Point Rendezvous for Ba-
hama Smugglers.
BRITISH VESSEL is USED
So. 900, 900 in Liquor Sold Over
the Side at Low Prices to
American Bootleggers.
BRITISH VESSEL is USED

Down or Montauk Point, slipping
through waters closely patrolled by the
revenue cutters and watched day and
night by. the agents OF the Govern
meht. three times within a month a
British schooner has beaten up from
the Bahamas with a heavy cargo of
whiskey and anchored off the three
mile limit, where it unloaded case after
case into private yachts and snug
glers' dories. Last Sunday night The
ship sailed south again to bring back
10000 cases more.
1t is estimated that on her three
trips the vessel has brought in from
the Bahamas liquor worth nearly
$4,000
Capt. Kidd in his most reckless days
would not have disdained the game
these Long Island smusglers have been
playing. Running their small craft
without lights. finding way through
the fog and dark. they have shuttled
between the long Island shore. every
inch of which they know. and the
the Point, bringing their cargo into
coves and the mouths of streams to be
loaded on motor trucks and rushed 20
New York.
, And while the ship comes and goes
the cutters sweep the sea with their
searchlights and force Of agents ashore
patrol the beaches from end to end.
Bourbon. Scotch and Irish whiskey.
champagne and other wines have made
up the cargoes of the smuggling craft.
The Montauk folk say that on its last
trip tho vessel lay off the point from
Friday night until Sunday. In the early
hours of each morning. working by a
carefully guarded set OF signals. the
dory smuggiers and other purchasers
who we're on the inside made trip after
trip out to the schooners side. They
paid cash for their precious cases, but
they got them at a price which reads
like a historical document-from S45
to SOS.
small part of the liquor was sent
ashore simply by tying casks together
and allowing them to float In with the
tide, but the greater part of the deliv-
cries were made from boat to boat.
when the nrSt WISH OF the snip WAS
made and the revenue officers learned
what had happened their efforts to catch
the vessel on its return were worked out
to the last detail. but those who were
on the inside managed to keep secret
the date OF the ships arrival. and she
came and left without being molested.
Not once has the whislSey ship ven-
tured inside the three mile limit. An
chored outside. she has been also out
side the law, and, as q matter Of fact.
II is not the English schooner but the
fleet of smugglers dorics and the pri-
vate bootleggcrs that the Federal agents
have set themselves to catch
None of the liquor has been landed in
Montauk. One small boatland went into
Mattituck Creek, several miles away !:
another went to East Haven. Conn. Two
OF the boats slipped into Huntington
Harbor and another. by what route Is
not known, brought Its load to the cell
lar OF a Sixth avenue restaurant. Dis
guised under cover of fish boxes. more
OF the booze was sent out from Ne
pearue arbor and on to New oYrk.
The vessel is believed to be operated
BY a group of FIVE mmenm. two OF them
from Brooklyn, two Greeks, and an
Englishman. They took over the super
fiuous whiskey stock of Nassau. in the
Bahamas. buying II at So case with
the provision that 1t all be sold before
October I.