New Britain herald., 1923-08-22
rum SCHOONER
APPEARS AT HALIFAX
Captain and Cook, Wounded, in
Gloucester Grew Sail Boat


Scotian schooner J. Scott Henderson
for which the United States coast
guard has been looking since she was
boarded by rum pirates off Rockport.
Mass, on Monday and her captain and
cook wounded, appeared at anchor
this morning off Yarmouth harbor.
Because of the heavy sea, communi-
cation with the schooner could not be
had.
The pirates boarded the schooner
OH Rockport in a motor boat known
as the Greyhound, with record as a
rum runner in New York waters. The
motor boat was found abandoned
near Gloucester.
Moore and the cook were landed by
fishermen who answered the Hanken-
sons distress signals. The rest of the
crew apparently then sailed her to
Nova Scotia.
Gloucester, Mass, Aug. 22--Captain
schooner had been peddling rum.
Efforts to confirm through cook and
captain that pirates had obtained
profits reaped through rum running
locked in the shippers safe failed.
Glocester, Mass, Aug. 22.-Captain
Arthur Moore of the schooner j.
Scott Hankenson, dangerously wound
ed by rum pirates off the Cape Ann
coast passed a fairly comfortable
night at a hospital here. Although
he Is still In a critical condition some
hopes are expressed that he may re-
cover. Harry Harm, ships cook, Is
convalescing from wounds received in
the attack on the vessel.
The police of Gloucester and Rock
port are busily engaged in running
down possible clues to the men who
boarded the schooner discharged
their revolvers and then fed in their
motor boat apparently without taking
anything of great value from the rum
runner. 1t is generally believed here
that the attack was made by north
shore men who had previously bought
part of the vessels cargo. Accord
ing to Harm, s $4,000 received from
such sales had been deposited in
Gloucester bank before the attack.
The abandoned motor boat, brought
in here yesterday contained little to
assist the police in their effort to es-
tablisf the identity of the pirates
Earlier reports that the pirates who
boarded the schooner and shot the
skipper and his cook, Harry Harm,
obtained a large sum of money from
the rum-runner's safe and the cap
tair's purse, could not be confirmed.
Profits In Bank.
The cook, in hospital with bullet |
wounds in his neck, shoulder and both
legs, told the city marshal yesterday
that the pirates could not have taken
more than $50, that the captains
personal funds, amounting to $500,
were intact when he was landed at
Rockport late Monday night by fish
ermen who responded to the Hanken-
sons distress signals, and that the
profits of the schooner's rum cruise,
estimated lat $4,000 had been brought |
ashore and deposited in bank some
time before the pirate attack.
Identifies Boat.
Capt. Moore, too gravely wounded
to tell his version of the struggle. was
able to identify photographs of 35-
foot motor boat, K-12113, found
abandoned off Jeffries Bank and
towed to this port yesterday as the
vessel used by the seven or eight
pirates who boarded the Hankenson.
This craft, which has a record in the
rum running business in New York
waters, is known as the Greyhound
1t was well known to the prohibition
authorities until its seizure off New
York in November, 1922, with a cargo
of whiskey. Later it was sold by the
government and passed from official
notice.
The Gloucester police claimed to
have evidence that the Nova Scotia
schooner had been lying off this port
for some time and had disposed of
large quantities of liquor to shore
boats. They were working in the the
Dry that the pirates had had dealings
with the schooner before and for that
reason were allowed to approach and
board the vessel without protest as
possible customers.
The motor boat K-12113, reported
10 have been used by pirates to board
the Nova Scotia rum runner ]. Scott
off Rockport, was identi-
led by customs authorities here as
the Greyhound, until recently one of
he thorns in the side of the enforce
nent officers patroling the rum fleet
off Atlantic Highlands.
The Greyhound was captured by.
he coast guard cutter Hansen No
1ember IL, 1922, a cargo of whiskey
valued at 100000 seized and her crew
IF two arrested. She was sold at auc-
ion by the government on January
%. her purchaser giving the name of
Joe Jones" and his address as Al
Spring street, Manhattan. Prohibi-
ion officers said they knew nothing
Lbout Jones and had not heard of the
Greyhound since her sale.
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