The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-28
Flare of Ships Rocket Leads to
Detection of Liquor Cargo
Worth $4,000.

| NEW YORK, July 27.-Romance
mysterious plotting, the flare of rock
cts telling of ship in trouble, baffled
officials, clever police deduction-all
| things and more figured today in the
campaign of prohibition enforcement
agents against the everbusy boot
| logger.
There was a woman-an alleged
sea going bootlegger-who was linked
up with two ships which have been
| seized; there was plot to substitute
| thousands of gallons of water for good
| liquor in storage here; and there was
the seizure of three ships, all heavily
laden with liquor-and all, it is. as
sumed, coming from some mysterious
cargo vessel which is Wallowing at
anchor, perhaps Is miles off New York
harbor.
Saw Rockets Flare
Early this morning, a coast guard,
walking along the Sandy Shore at
the flare of ships rocket. He warned
his station, and the surf boat went
out to a bar where the sloop ~ H. P.''
had rammed hard and fast. The coast
guardsmen boarded her and found her
low in the water with a cargo of 1900
cases of liquor valued at $4,000.
The guards got the boat off into
deeper water only to find she was SO
heavily laden that she could not make
good storage way. So the revenue
cutter Manhattan was summoned from
New York and late today reported by
wireless that she was coming down
the coast with the 81. H. P" and an
other rum runner in tow. a
Loaded to Gun Wales
The second ship is the Marion
Mosher, a sloop out of New York. She
had been picked up by the dry navy"
chaser Hansen as she hammered along
with seas breaking over her. She was
laden to the gun wales with liquor in
cases, boxes and bottles. The Hansen
continued her cruise, looking for more
contraband ships.
And Then A Third
While these two runners were being
shared off the coast, a third was being
collected by harbor police just inside
Of Sandy Hook. The auxiliary sloop "K
10706" was escorted up to the battery
by the city police boat Manhattan-no
relation to the cutter which is bring
ing the other two in-and her total Of
liquor cases still was being counted by
policemen tonight.
$4,000 Bond
Ashore, things were happening, too.
Mrs. Edith Stevens, 10, was arraigned
in federal court on a liquor law viola
tion charge, and held on $4,000 bond.
Recently the Yacht Edith, rum laden
slipped into a quiet Long Island har-
Dor and was seized by enforcement
officers. Anthony Cosez who was
charged with owning the Edith was
arrested and held in $1,000 bail.
"Woman Behind Bottle"
Captain Charles Oman, commander
of the Edith, on trial for violating the
liquor laws, has accused Mrs. Stevens
of being the woman behind the bot
tle." He says a woman directed the
loading of the cargo at Bermuda and
came with it TO New York. So did
Casez, he claims, but neither was
aboard when the ship was seized.
Mrs. Stevens admits she made the
trip to Bermuda on the Edith, but
claims she knew nothing of her cargo.
Claims innocence
A man who said he was Mrs. Stew
ems husband appeared at the federal
building today and said she was inno-
cent He declared she was no boot
logger.
The New York Tribune, disclosed an
alleged plot to replace liquor stored in
warehouses with barrels of water.