New-York tribune., 1922-08-20
Is Captured II,
Midnight Rum
Raid Held i'm Jail
New Rochelle Police Seize
500, 900 Whisky, Motor
s-cht and Three Trucks
as Men Unload Liquor
Raiders Tipped by Citizen
Surround the Alleged Boot
leggers From WateT and
Land; Captain Escapes.

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/ Fifteen prisoners, charged with run
ming rum. were held in total Of
$4,000 bail in New Rochalle yesterday
following midnight runa-running raid
by the New Rochelle police, in which
100000 worth OF contraband whisky,
large motor yacht named The Bat and
three automobile trucks we're seized.
The raid was staged at the docks Of
the Huguenot Coal Company, at which
the alleged rum runners had moored
their yacht in the darkness Of the night
and without the knowledge of the com
pany operating the piers
The spot is ideal for rum running
purposes, rs il provided an unusually
snug harbor for the yacht and q
straight runway along the pier for the
automobile trucks. The fifteen men
arrested were working like beavers
to unload the yacht when the police
.swooped down on the party from both
the land md the water side. Six hun-
drad cases Of whisky had been loaded
on the trucks when the police sprang
their trap.
Finest Quality Whisky
Eight members OF the New Rochelle
police force were in the land squad
and four. members were in launch
The latter had little to do save stand
off while the shore raiders boarded the
yacht and made the seizure. The po-
lice admitted they had acted on a tip
received from citizen of New Ro-
chelle who had learned of the inten-
tion of the alleged rum running party.
All the whisky seized was of the finest
quality and was done up in the regula-
tion burlap packages adopted as most
convenisnt for the rum running trade
There are six quart bottles to each
burlap package, and two packages COM
stitute case Of liquor,
The arrival of the police was signal
for all men engaged in unloading the
, yacht to attempt to escape. A grim
game Of hide and seek was played about
the dock before the fifteen men had
been rounded up. 1t was then found
that the captain of the yacht, whose
name ncne of the prisoners would di-
vulge, had escaped.
The yacht, converted submarine
chaser with a powerful gasoline motor
was reported to be owned In Washing
ton, D. c.. The owner was said to be q
Mr.. Ferguson. A dispatch from Wash
/ ington said that a Mr.. Ferguson was
/ listed there as owner of The Bat, and
! that he had at one time been in the
| taxicab business in the Capitol city
hut had left there recently for New
! York. Ell
/ Transferred From Schooner
Three men, charged by the police
! with being the leaders OF the rum run.
/ ming party, described themselves as
! James Murphy, a salesman, of 7l
| Chatsworth Avenue, Larchnlont; Will.
| lam Baldwin, inventor, Darien, Conn.
and John Johnson, real estate dealer
1 Of 2S4 Chestnut Sereet, Philadelphia
These men said the liquor had beer
I, transferred TO The Bat from three
masted schooner off Montauk Point
The police last night had not sue
ceeded IN learning who owned the three
| motor trucks. One of the trucks had
| been sold recently by New York beef
and provision company,
The police said The Bat was a link
between deep water ships and an i'm
portant group of boetleggers on shore
and that revenue officers had searched
| for the craft Tor several months.
Former City Judge Mortimer O'Brien
of Yonkers, appeared as counsel for the
| prisoners when they were arraigned
! He refused to say who had employed
him. The other prisoners, one of
whom it is charged offered bribe OF
$4,000 If he were permitted 10 escape
are:
Raymond Larsen, III Pioneer Street,
Brooklyn; Fred Saunders, 242 Main
street, Port Chester; Samuel Harris
| 1901 East 180th Street, New York Z.
Nielsen, sos Fifty-eighth Street
Brooklyn, and Karl Koschowitz, 13a
| Lawrence Street, New York, all sailors,
and John o'Brien,a salesman, A40 East
137th Street, New York; Charles Ber-
nard, laborer. 1853 Amsterdam Avenue,
! New York; Fred Mayenhoff. laborer,
4s4 Riverside Drive, Lyndhurst, N. j..
Olaf Jansen, cook, ITO Fourteenth
Street, Brooklyn; Anthony Iiska, ma
chinist, 53 Vermilyea Avenue, New
/ York; Charles Braun, laborer, TIA
Westchester Avenue, the Bronx, and
John Miller, laborer, Stl East 152d
/ Street, New York.
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