Evening journal., 1921-07-28
rum SKIPPER
TELLS HIS STORY
Outside 3 Mile Limit He
Calmly Admits Huge
Smuggling Operations
SAYS 10 WORK
FOR SYNDICATE

ATLANTIC CITY. July 2s.-Cap-
tain Eric Anderson. the young skip
per OF the schooner Henry T. Mar
shall, the rum smuggling ship which
has been floating around outside the
three mile limit for some time here.
waiting to dispose OF her cargo OF
whisky. talked over the side Of his
vessel to a group OF men In a motor
boat and gave some interesting IN
formation regarding the methods OF
smuggling liquor from the Bahamas
TO the United States and about the
svndicates who handle 1t after II has
been landed here. Among other
things Captain Anderson said that
although he has no wireless he
knows all about the efforts the gov
ernment is making TO catch the
whisky runners. as motor boats
come out to him every night and
give him papers and information.
The Henry T. Marshall. according
TO Captain Anderson's statement, is
the rum smuggler which was recent
ly seen off Montauk Point and vari-
where he had transferred cases OF
whisky from his ship to motor boats
that put out from the American
shore. The principal point for this
transfer, he said. is at the Egg Har-
Dor buoy. out from Egg Harbor. n.
]. When ships that have whisky
aboard arrive of the buoy, he said,
at least five motor boats are always
there to meet them and run back
and forth with the cargo throughout
the night At daybreak the whisky
smuggler drifts further out to sea
and stays the5e until nightfall.
Il used TO sail out OF Gloucester
and I was a fisherman" said Cap
tain Anderson Il do not own this
ship, neither do I own the cargo oi
several thousand cases OF old Scotch
which have aboard. And I am mo-
going TO tell who does. I might sa.
that ! am working for a crowd o.
wealthy men. The old smack uset
to sail out OF Gloucester. but when 4
was decided to run whisky she wa
sold and transferred to British reg
istry.
when ] got my cargo I left tn
Bahamas and sailed straight up tn,
coast 20 a position OF Montaul
Point. I laid out there and durini
the night came within ten miles o
the shore. where at a certain buo.
motor boats came out to meet us
My ship was the phantom ship tn
papers talked about. They made m
laugh. All OF the members a. m,
crew are Gloucester fishermen, ex
ceptng three Newfoundianders an
one Frenchman. We make a Ger
tain profit on each case we sell. W
are only responsible until the slut
goes over the side into the sma
boats. Then We are through wit
IT."
Captain Anderson was asked n h
would sell few cases and wha
was the price.
Whisky is $50 a case" he sal,
"and gin Is $50. but I won't sell le.
than $4,000 worth. II youIl bu
$4,000 worth I'll knock or $40
case"
He said that the whisky cost 81
a case at the Bahamas.
after We left Montauk Point
the captain said I'VE came dow
here and laid of Beach Haven, an
some OF the boys in tho boats can
out and met US"
who are the people in Atlantl
City who are buying the li1uor?" h
was asked.
They are saloonkoepers. mostn
They are the ones who send IN
boats out. When we 90 10 the ligl
buoy in Little Egg Harbof the stu
is stored in shanties several hundre
feet back OF the shore line. This
the third time I've been here with
cargo in two months. and W;
never so long getting rid OF a care
before"
Captain Anderson said he laughe
about the stories OF a country sic
whisky syndicate. because there
no such thing. He said that thei
is a syndicate in each big city. br
that they work Independently.