The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-22
|N0DERN PIRATES PREY
ON LIQUOR RUNNERS
,ocANEERs IN SPEED BOATS
.vrpHAUL RUM SMUGGLERS
OFF FLORIDA COAST.
cApTIJRE CARGOES AND CASH

~. If Escapades Read Like Chron-
G ;.lss Of Capt. Kidd. Have Racing
Moi Motor Boats. Procured $4,000 in
one Daring Robbery.
,uAnr Fla.-When Bobby HES
..,..,i 70 the hay loft or crawls I'M
- ,be house and in wide eyed won
', oerpses a paper backed chronicle
|, Morgan Capt. Kidd and other gen
!. who roamed the seas under the
|orc Roger, he usually expressed re-
=. that he did not live a century or
H. AGO SO he could have joined the
Tbs how may not know it, but the
nv rorerS are on the job again and
fe,oades of liquor pirates Oft the
f,tbeastrrn coast of Florida and III
4. Bshamas if recorded in book
&;gbt cause Bobby to regard Morgan,
WI E. Co. with less awe. Morgan
III Kidd were forced to depend upon
IN, for motive power, but the mod
h oirate has a gasoline motor and
rs 10 sea in a boat that will move
BGg than any sailing vessel ever
He overhauls a liquor runner, holds
M steals all or as much OF its cargo
4 hi, vessel will carry, waves his
Ind TO the luckless owner and disap-
lar. to land his loot at some untre-
&reated cove on the Florida coast
Stbers have landed on small keys IN
N Rahaulas. where cargoes OF liquor
rum runners have been assembled,
IN raided the warehouses.
Smugglers Keep Silent.
&Oncial reports Of piracy have not
len frequent. The liquor smugglers
ho have been held up at sea charge
II occurrence to profit and loss and
Ike no complaint, because they are
Ebreakers themselves. The pirates
lturally do not tell about their opera
.kns but numerous stories OF hold
and robberies leak out through
foreground sources and there is ev-
Indication that prohibition Off
are not the only people the liquor
ltners are constantly on the lookout
Haniord Mobely, 10, held in jail at
est Palm Beach as one of the four
n charged with the robbery OF the
nk OF Stuart, at Stuart, Fla, sew
months ago, also has piracy
Erge hanging over him. Just what
1 n he is believed to have taken in
hoIdup the federal authorities have
stated, but they have announced
"A il Mobcly was granted his liberty
bail, Or was acquitted OF the rob-
IA charge, he would be arrested I'M
diately on a federal warrant charg-
81 piracy.
Shot Negro Master.
Ihe most recent case of alleged pi-
3 to be made public officially result
in the shooting to death of George
gecomb negro master of the Brit
schooner William H. Albury, at
Key, in the Bahamas, a short dis
&c from here, and the theft OF be-
en $1,000 and $4,000 from the yes
# The robbery occurred July 80. The
Pury according to British officials,
been engaged in the rum carrying
Dc between the Bahamas and ia
ica Dody Carey, cashier aboard
Abury, was sent to Miami by the
tHh commissioner at Bimini to tell
story of the holdup to the British
consul and state and federal OF
BIS here.
he Albury was at anchor at Cat
Carey said, when an auxiliary
ooner, said to be the Falcon, ap-
ped. Three men were aboard the
Con and after anchoring they
Tded the Albury and informed
Edgccomb they wished to pur-
a cargo OF liquor They were
tanned during the forenoon while
crew piled $2,100 worth OF liquor
peek to be transferred to the Fail
according to the account.
noon the Albury's crew except
eComb and Carey went below. Ca
was working on his books in his
room when one of the visitors
eaFed pointed a pistol at him and
req HIM to hand over what cash
mad. Carey gave him $1,000. The
visitors in the meantime had
below and covered the Albury's
with pistols. Edgecomb was pac-
me deck within view of the cabin
one OF the men saw him. The
gr was ordered to enter, but see
me pistol turned his back. A shot
nTed and the captain fell dead.
u crew Of the Albury then was
81 IN the cabin and the visitors de-
~ Inc prisoners, Carey said, re-
"a their liberty within few mo-
e iF,a.cen, which had been absent
mann several days, having been
ny ITS owner to a man said to
recently been released from the
,Sa pemtentiary, was found at her
ing IN the harbor here the next
, 5s' having entered port some
u1ring the night.