Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-09
SELLING BOOZE
IS CONTINUED
Come Has Big Job in Unload
ing All Cases From Ship
Here
is SHIPPED TO NEWARK
Great Caution Taken by the
Guards When Liquor is.
Shipped This Afternoon

Federal Prohibition Enforcement
Officer Sam Henri Cone and his
squad of workers found it impossible
to remove all the liquor from the
booze nip Harbinger which was
seized yesterday at the plant of the
Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company
here and the journey to the ware
house in Newark will not be started
until this afternoon. The liquor
that had been removed yesterday
was placed in the automobile truck
and dri zen to a garage where IL was
guarded throughout the night by
enforcement agents. while the re-
mainder was placed under seal and
guard aboard the ship.
Under the direction of Cone the
unloading began again early this
morning. Most of the stuff removed
Yesterday was that still remaining
;n cases, while today the men are
busy unloading bottles that had
been removed from cases and stack
ed high in the hold of the boat. 1t
is estimated by Cones that a total
of 5000 bottles were piled up in the
ship and at II o'clock today there
remained still 1000 of these bottles
to be removed and cased before the
start to the government warehouse
in Newark could be made.
The work of unloading tEe liquoc
was stopped last night due to tbs
fact that the Harbinger is not equip
ped with electric lights. Had the
vessel been equipped with cleo
tricity. 1t is likely that
the agents would have continued
| the unloading process until well into
the night, SO that the truck coul
have started for the warehouse early
this morning.
The fact that many of tho bottles
had been uncased delayed the work
considerably as they have to be
raised to the deck of the boat in
baskets and then packed into empty
cases that have been placed on the
pier. Cone said today that in all
there would be in the neiGbborhood
of about 800 cases taken from the
vessel Up to the present time 1G
cases have been loaded on the truck
and forty-fivo or fifty eases are scat
tered about the pier waiting to be
loaded into the vehicle ami started
on its way to Newark.
There were rumors about the city
last night that an inventory made
of the liquor after its seizure show
ed that only eighty cases pf the 900
supposed to be on board the vessel
we're found. A visit to the ship to-
day, however. proved that this ru-
NOR was false, as already ever 200
cases had been removed from the
hold of the vessel
Last night the ship and liquor
still on board was guarded by six
prohibition agents. Mr.. Cone en-
deavored to borrow the sawed off
shotguns of the local police depart
ment in order to arm the men, but
the police refused to ALLOW them to
be taken from headquarters. How
ever the prohibition men were arm
ed with revolvers and other fire.
arms. Following the removal of the
liquor the prohibition men will re-
main in guard at the ship 50 that Il
cannot be taken from the harbor.
Although it has been learned de-
finitely that Perth Amboy men are
mixed up in the affair, the custom
officials still refuse to give out the
names OF those who were connected
with the attempt to remove the stuft
last Sunday night. 1t has been
learned that it was some of the party
which boarded the ship On SUNDAY
night who removed the bottles from
the original cases.
In the forward part of the YES
sci con g IOunu several DunulcS OF
card board containers. These. ac-
cCrding to information obtained
from the crew had been placed
aboard the boat during the visit of
the alleged bootlegGers on Sunday.
The original cases in which the
Whiskey was shipped contained the
name of the manufacturer and brand
in large red and black letters. Tnis
would have made it unsafe to trans
port the stuff and according to what
can be learned, the idea was to take
the bottles from the printed cases
and place them in the card board
cc ntainers on which no names APP
poared. IT is said that it Gas while
the changing of the bottles from
one container to other was going on
that the custom men made their raid
that resulted in the arrest Of several
members of the crew and implicat-
ed several Perth Amboy men in the
affair.
The hearings Of men already ar
rested and now in the Essex county
Jail viii be held tomorrow at
o'clock in the afternoon before
United States Commissioner Emery
in Newark.