The New York herald., 1922-07-28
AGENTS SEIZE THREE SHIPS
AND $500 900 LIQUOR CARGO
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pected the K-10706 OF being a rum run
ner when they saw her leave Fifteenth
street. Hoboken. on Wednesday, with
two men aboard and carrying fishing
tackle for twenty men. The Manhattan
followed the launch, but lost track of
her beyond Ambrose lightship.
Yesterday morning. as the Manhattan
waited in the Narrows for the launch to
reappear, the boat was observed wal
lowing in the sea as though heavily
loaded. Her nose had been battered as
though she had been in collision or had
been crashed by rough seas against the
side of a big boat. She was low in the
water.
Capt. Joseph S. Davis Of the Manhat-
tan ordered her to halt and took her
into the Battery.
Capt Davis asked one of the men why
he had chosen the Narrows as a fishing
ground. The elder Williams replied
that he was fishing wherever he thought
he could find fish and the load which
was holding the launch down in the
water was fish already caught. The
police found more than 900 bottles of
choice old Irish and Scotch and a mis-.
cellaneous assortment of other brands
board the launch.
The sloop ]. II. B. was captured by
the Coast Guards, who observed the
vessel grounded on a sand bar. The sloop
was pulled off her perilous position and
was only seized after Coast Guard men
had gone aboard and found 1900 bottles
and thirty-five barrels of whisky.
Nine men were on board the sloop.
The officials believe that the captain
and several of the crew Of the Marion
Mosher were among them. The sloop
was held at Coast Guard Station No. 80,
Point OF Woods, and will be towed to
the Battery this morning.
Seaman BeEs to BE Saved.
The circumstances surrounding the
capture of the schooner Marion Mosher
and the story told by the two sailors.
who said they were shanghaied, was
pointed out as an example of the daring
OF rum runners. Instead of transferring
the liquor to smaller craft and thereby
taking no risk, but making smaller prof
1t on the cargo, the schooner attempted
to come into the harbor and sell the
liquor direct, said the officials.
When the Hansen picked up the
schooner Off Fire Island iightship the
first words heard was q yell from a sea
man. who said he was George Cox, Sc,
of the Old Slip House. South street
For Gods sake come take us OFF,
Cox said he had been hired as mate
on board a fishing schooner making a
pleasure trip to Nassau in the Bahamas
Cox said he was asked to get a cook
and sailor and go to Greenport, l.. L..
to be picked up.
Cox got Fred Meier. "a, OF % South
street, and Harry Hudson. 25, sailor
Of 2S South street, and received money
to pay their fares to Greenport
,'I got down there week ago last
the wharf was little sloop, and when
we got on board We were told to go
below and stay there until We were
called. That was at z o'clock at night
and five hours later, after we had sailed
out around Montauk Point we came to
bigger schooner and were told to turn
out of the forecastle and go aboard the
larger vessel.
almost at once the captain ordered
me with the others to get down into the
forecastle and get ready to stand my
watch. / told him had not had any
thing to eat had shipped as a mate and
all his was surprise to me.
Beaten by the Captain.
'Then tho captain told the cook,
Don't give this man anything to eat
until he turns to- had nothing to eat
all the next day and they came after
me and called me on deck. The captain
said. You won't work. chi? and
knocked me down on the deck, being
helped by another man.
"The captain kicked me in the legs
xxyH L al ha is R1tl,
were blacked and the captain said. Lug
him aft and put him in the lazar and
let him lie there until he is willing to
turn to-
Then I saw everything was against
me and had no chance and although
I had agreed to go as mate. did turn
to in order to get something to eat
Since that time l have been doing the
meanest of sailors work, pulling ropes.
scraping paint and the like, and was
told many times to keep my mouth shut
as to what was going on"
Cargo shifted to the j. II. b.
Cox said that several times a part OF
the liquor cargo was ferried ashore to
Greenport in the J. II. b. He said the
sloop took forty barrels and 100 cases
of whisky Wednesday night. He thought
the Captain was among the nine cap
tured with this vessel.
Meier. who was landed with Cox, cor
roborated the story. The two men were
kept In a separate room from the other
prisoners.
Cox said that while on board the
schooner he learned the owners were
looking for the arrival of a 1000 ton
steamship loaded with liquor from Nova
Scotia. He said the plan OF operations
of the Marion Mosher was to sell the
present cargo of liquor here and then
TO go to Newfoundland, where another
cargo would be taken on board. After
that was sold the schooner was to go
again to Bermuda or the Bahamas and
repeat the program.
AS evidence that the schooner was
doing business on practical scale. the
customs officers took from the vessel an
authentic testing outfit such as is used
by Government officials TO examine tho
contents OF whisky barrels to determine
the alcoholic content. Cox said the
Marion Mosher had been lying off the
eastern end OF Long Island since July 4.
About twenty officials representing the
customs. prohibition and coast guard de-
partments helped unite the three branches
in handling the prohibition feet TO cope
with the smuggling situation. The offi-
cials included Ralph A. Day. State prohl-
biton director X. o. Matthews, assist
ant national prohibition director; John