South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-16
USE MANY TRICKS
IN TRANSPORTING
LIQUOR INTO U. S.
T ederal Officers Baffled by
.SmuggIers' Methods Along
Canadian Border.

. 0eatn. INJURY and arrest most OF
4 rltrn runners atoms the New Ems
4 land-Canada line are using an sorts
ot cunning tricks % make quick and
/. a. fortunes.
sMorc than 5000 900 worth n
liquor finds lts way from Canada 90 .
III United states monthly. the ac-
t1oriiles saw.
rPerah9s tho most picturesque fea-
t'sres II the bored liquor traffic are
.7e cline houes" The BARRON butt
% the International boundary has
org been q favorita setting for nov
eHs-s and scenario writers Many If
these exist Ears are mounted ca
p.hecls Wlen Canadian officers
raid. bar is moved t0 the United
States side ~ The room. When Un.-
tod States officers arrive bar is
wheeled into Canada Patrons enter
deOr on United states territory. CROSS
nc room and buy i1 Canads. OF
feials unless .hcy cooperate and
raid simuItsniousiy. age helpless Co
make arrests
eCrossing the line jon airplane laden
with liquor was the first and most
obvious method Of nuilifying the
Prohibition laws whsch presented it,
self 20 hOot,Cggers Moreover TO
date 10 has perhaps been enc most
0accessful The method Of rum run
ming Is said 10 have been used con-
thIOusly since prohibition went to
effec,, despite the expense Of Is
operation. To checkmate this form
a traffic the Canadian authorities
are said 20 he planning an airplage
ratroI Of the border of Vermont
Ncw Hampshire and Maine.
tIIere are some of the otEeF i'm
r7enious schemes the willy rum rum
ners use
Fast motor boats loaded with
Ihuor leave Canadian s.Iore OF Lake
Nemphramagcg. preceded Jas speedy
IHIoJ boat innocent. of contra brand
Pilot ObaOt ,nears American shore.
II federal officers are in evidence.
IDIOT boat flashes warming tC rum
r3n1ers who are far out iu Lake 20
raake their escape I'm spite OF pur-
s0it If there is no DANGER the cen
trabrand is landed.
TWO high-pcwercd automobiles
cross the line from Canada into
Maine, the FIRST carrying camouhass
whisky cases. the second loaded WITH
genuine liquor. Government officials
mold up the first machcine Its
drivers turn out from tine road and
the search proceeds. While officers
are thus engaged. the real whisky
runners i'm The second auto speed
past at sixty miles am hour and (
escape
SPIGOT u EXHAUST PIPE.
Automobile seized ~ Worchester. /
Mass. ana found Co have false
body-a hollow shell capable of car
rynlg large quantity OF liquor. Auto
mobile said to have cost $1,000 10
construct Believed 10 have been
used FOR months in liquor traffic be-
tween tho United states and canada.
TdGuor poured into body by hidden
opening near top Of tonneau. end eN-
uracteI from small tap 40 bottom
Hundreds OF varieties OF the false
gas tanks discovered ON automobiles
and motor boa-s running between
Canadian ami American points.
FaISo bottoms small interior tanks,
~ De completely surrounded 10y gas
cline and similar devices are COM
mon. one variety is divided into
TWO compartments and turns on a
nlNNIr tine -a.tf. I. tIiA'.Nt ~ tN-l ..'N'.t-'
and the tank "a theu revived. briug-
ing tho gasoline compartment TO the
top.
CCastinE sChoOnerS from Canada
K..ave too off small islands near The
Maine coast and consignments OF
bonded LIQUOR are landed and care
fully concealed. The liquor Is
brought off little at time by
Fishermen. VINO load their do~ics
arlth 81 case or two of WHISKY ana
cover the conraband with fresh
eauSht cod fish.
Motor boats running between Car
adam ports and towns along The up-
Der Maine coasi have been found 90
have hollow keels IN which many
kauons of whisky have been brought
into Castine. Sacketts harbor Ma
ehias. towns on EgEsmoggin Beach
And Deer Isle Liquor is shipped 20
Boston and other markets i'm cases
labelled .lobsters' and containing
shallow layer of shell fish. in cars
supposed TO contain potatoes
Brandy POurs I'm.
Ten gallons Of whisky seized I'm
tonneaus OF two automobiles shipped
in a box car over the Canadian line.
siouor found in boxes labelled NO.
and No . Photographs Records.
Handle With Care
Shipment of wires in bales, pulp
WOOD and honeyccmbs packed and
marked according go these classihca-
tsons and addressed Co reputable
firms in the United states found ct
border 10 consist Of rare Scotch
gin and brandy Broken bottles iu
freieht cars and reSuluns arom@
aroused suspicion of authorities
Doubtless. hundreds Of such ship
nents go through uudatected.
Crews Of timers smiling from Eu-
ropean countries have smuEEled
hue amounts Of liquor TO. their
friends i'm the United States Whole
caaes 0f booze are thrown over
board outside the three-mue limit
and marked with % buoy Smugglers
in rowboats 60 after them under
cover OF darkness and bring the
booty ashore Nothing can Doe done
s. stop thiS unless the federal agents
are fortunate encuE N to nab the
smugeIers in the ACT Of landing the
tCntraband.
Porters on international train runs
are in a pcsiuou- O. smugSle liquor
with ease Hidns places are found
for liquor CA Ihe trains The liquor