The New York herald., 1922-09-16
DRYS SEIZE 2 MORE
BRITISH SCHO0NERS
Find Captain of One With
$19,793 and Heavy Cargo
Of Whisky.
THIRD SHIP GETS AWAY
Abandoned Launch Full of
Liquor Sinks When Being
TOwed In.
THIRD SHIP GETS AWAY

BY day the rum ships stand safely
out to sea. BY night they crawl shore
ward and anchor where motorboats of
the booze runners mosquito fleet can
snuggle up and take off Scotch in bags
and rum in kegs. While waiting for
customers the crews visit each other,
sample each others stock and breath
and play cards for more money than
sailormen ever dreamt of in the days
before alcohol was outlawed.
Then (once in whitley a lean con-
verted subchaser Of the United States
prohibition navy comes purring along
when the moon is gone, points Its
searchlight and its one FOUNDER at the
reputed smugglers and gathers them
in. them and their ship.
Thus two more schooners from the
Bahamas. British registered. low in the
water from the weight of thousands OF
full bottles, were towed up the harbor
yesterday by the one revenue cruiser
that captured them both, and laid
alongside the Barge Office to await
judgment as to guilt and future owner
ship.
The schooners are Buema. forty tons,
out of Rockport. N. S., and the Eta b..
thirty tons. out of Nassau. They were
brought In by the revenue patrol boat
Hahn of the prohibition navy, George
+. Tawes. captain.
Four h,inJral na cL roe of whiclxy
mostly in bags. and five kegs of rum
were found on the Buema and seized
Even the life boat was full of them
Capt. John Sims had 1898 cash in a
tin box and First Mate John MacNeil
$e150. The captain said he was no rum
runner. but was bound for st. Pierre
off Newfoundland, when his reveries
were interrupted. He also said he put
part of his cargo overheard in big
storm off Hatteras. but did not say he
put 1t into the ocean. The Buema was
made prisoner nine miles east of Lone
Branch on Thursday night, according
to Capt. Tawes. Her captain had a
manifest listing $50 packages of liquor.
While towing the Buema. the prohibit
ton dreadnaught sighted the Eta B.
and seized her three miles south OF
Rockaway Beach.
Were going to board you." Capt.
Tawcs megaphoned.
Never mind" came a resigned voice
from the Eta b.. I'll go in under my
own power" Nevertheless she was
taken In tow. The Eta B. was trinity
loaded but not with money. The Hahn
sighted third schooner. but an attempt
to board her was abandoned when a
DOR was smashed against the side OF
the Hahn.
Capt Sims and mate Mcneil of the
Buema four members of the crew and
another man said 10 be a stowaway Ca
sto yaway in hold full of booze). were
cha ar1ed before United States Commits
sioner Stanton in HobokeD with con-
spiring to defraud the Government by
violating the volstead act Sims and
Mcneil were held In $4,000 bail apiece
and each of the others In $500, for a
hearing next Wednesday.
The crew Of the Eta b. were
arraigncd in Brooklyn. Capt. Charles
Peters was held in $4,000 bail and the
four others In $4,000 for a hearing on
September %. Everybody on both
ships pleaded not guilty.
The prohibition cruiser Newberry
came upon a launch loaded with liquor
but deserted by the crew two and half
miles of Sea Girt early yesterday. The
launch sank as Il was being towed
toward New York. but the Government
agents were able TO remove from n
231h cases OF Scotch whisky and 90
bottles in bags. The launch bore the
number 1911. which had been painted
oy ar