Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-02
Coast Cutter Seneca Makes
Capture Off Atlantic City
"A Men Under Arrest i
MUCH LIQUOR FOUND
First Mate of the Seized Ship
Escapes in a Fast Motor
Boat

NEW YORK, Aug. 2-The
schooner Henry l. Marshall with a
cargo of liquor was taken into GUS
tody late last night four miles off
the coast by the coast cutter Seneca,
and brought here. The schooner
was carrying a British flag.
The schooner after being boarded
by officers from the Seneca was
in tow and a guard placed on board.
On her arrival in quarantine the u.
IS. marshal and custom authorities
were asked to take the boat into Gus
tody. Her home port is Gloucester,
Mass.
Recent reports from Atlantic City
said she had been sighted off the
coast and was visited by numer-
motor boats
The schooner was boarded and
seized off Atlantic City officers OF
| the Seneca said. Four men constl-
tuting her crew were placed under
arrest. Her captain, name given AZ
TX. Clausen, and the first t-Eat teLl9en-
titled as E.. Thompson, escaped IA =
fast motorboat.
On the deck of the schooner coast
| guard officers said they found
numerous cases of liquor There also
was evidence that much of the
cargo had been discharged. The
men aboard were asked for papers
which they denied having. A rearch
disclosed she had cleared from Hall
fax. The men are alleged to have
admitted that the schooner loaded
at point five miles off New PrCsf-
dence in the Bahamas, and the
cargo comprised 1900 cases Cf
liquor of various kinds. The men
were quoted as saying they We're tu
have destroyed the Halifax clearing
papers after the cargo had been dis
posed of and then proceed to Glou-
cester. They declined to say what
they had done with the missing
cargo.
The men detained by the coast
guard officers gave the names OF
Clarence King of Barcelona. M.
Murphy, American: M. Maui,
French, and R. Pike, American. all
seamen.
After examining the papers the
Senecas captain placed seven men
aboard as a prize crew and taking
her in tow, started for New York
The Seneca shot a wireless message
reporting the seizure to Captain B,
l.. Read, superintendent of coast
guard of this district. On reaching
Quarantine the guard was increased.
She will be turned over to a repre-.
senstative of the United States mar
shall.
United States Attorney Hayward
said this morning that he had had
the schooner brought to New York
after having been advised of the
seizure He added she would be held
pending conference with coast guard
officers who captured her. He de-
clined to indicate what procedure
would be taken against her, although
he said she might be charged with
violating transportation laws.
Montauk Point and Atlantic City
have been the most active points
reporting rum laden craft scouting
the three mile limit. From Mon
tauk came reports that a ship from
he Bahamas had been most punctual
in keeping appointments with a
swarm of tiny craft, and that liquor
enough to warrant many search
had beer purchased on high seas
and landed along the New York,
New jersey and Connecticut shores.
Atlantic City almost daily reported
rum runners three miles off the
beach, signalling tauntingly to pro-
hibition agents to come and get IL.
One schooner had been seized, but
no liquor was found aboard.
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