New Britain herald., 1924-07-29
RUM RUNNING SHIP
 RIDDLED WITH SHOT
Finally Gives Up Alter SpeCtacu'
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III
 New York, July :s,-Ths osAssrl
 sa submarine chaser Williams is an
 cargo Af sU0 eases of se0lel
 Hhlskey, valued al tia,eg9. ssFs cap
 tuTed of h0uiauk Point early ytsteF
 asy after the crafts steel hull ha'
 been pgHctuFed by most Of ths se
 shots fired by members ef the neV customs marine patrol sith s LsSi
 machine gun, The steel plates weFi so full Of holes that half af ths esFg'
 sas ahhst wRen the captive sFFiyef st The Battery.
 The Williams ls was ene Of t~t vessels chased by the customs marine patrol snsedboat, the Shark, rh' gunner Of the Shark trsd 500 shou at the first rum.runneh a high pow, cred yacht sighted In the fog at o'clock ln the morning. He believe, | that most of tho shots ssrs hits and | that they may have caused the yacht to sink. She was nowhere 10 b' seen st daybresk. when the wstsri off Montauk were searched for her.
 The Shark arrived at the barge ot'
 hee st the Battery a little after o'clock last night manned by Special Agents Lyons. Geary and Dursck They reported that they had turned the captive boat and three prisoners aboard it over to the marine pstro launch. Liberty, to be lowed 10 th. Battery.
 We were patrolllng of Montauk Point in the early morning. and were running without lights when ws sighted speedy yacht headed straight for us" said Lyons. "As she approached we increased our speed to 25 knots to be prepared for a chase"
 Lyons. through mesaphone, yelled:
 "Heavs to, customs officers." Tries to Ram Patrol Boat. The yacht increased her speed and headed directly for the marine patrol boat, which steered hard to port to escape being run down. The ma chine gun of the Shark uas brought | into play and three magazines of ammunition were emptied at the yacht.
 Three times they attempted to ram us. and, despite the fact that at times re attained a speed of 55 knots in pursuit of her. the yacht began to leave us behind.
 The third time they attempted to ram IFS we were going about 30 knots. Lyons had just emptied his eighth pan Of bullets, which will penetrate an eighth of an inch of steel at half mile. when Geary threw the wheel hard over to star board to dodge the yacht Lyons who was at the machine gun in the stern of the patrol boat was flung overheard.
 We were forced to circle about him twice before he succeeded in grabbing a lSo-foot life line which we threw out. Meanwhile the yacht mad disappeared.
 As we were about to draw in Lyons, Geary yelled, There's another one over towards Cornfieid Lightship.' We put our craft full speed ahead at j5 knots, while Lyons swung on the life line and was dragged through the calm sea as smoothly as if he had been on an aquaplane.
 We had a four-mile chase and fired 500 shots at the fugitive before re cut her tiller rope and captured her. Then we found she was the converted submarine chaser William 1S. When we boarded her she was half full of water and her cargo was partly afoat Judging by the con dition of her riddled hull it is quite likely that the yacht we encountered became waterlogged and sunk"
 Three Prisoners Brought In.
 Tho prisoners will be arraigned this morning before Edward Barnes, as- sistant solicitor of the legal division at the custom house, They gave their names at the barge office as Baldwin N. Raymond of 152 West Forty street, Norfolk, Va; AL ford Reiter of 32s Sixth street, Grecnpoit, Long Island, and William Herlacher of 25 South street, Man haitian.
 Raymond appeared to be Of su- perior bearing and education and asked 10 be excused from making any statement, adding, with a wave to his captors:
 "If there's anything to say, I guess they can say it."
 The Williams IS, it was learned, was famous for its speed along Rum Row where it was unofficially dubbed. Ginger" The boat was originally the yacht Grayling, built in 1914 at cost of s15GOo0. It was eighty-six feet over all, and had speed of thirty knots.
 Divisional Prohibition Chief R. Q. Merrick announced yesterday that he had confirmed reports of the snug gljng of Chinese and other aliens, as well as narcotics and liquor. by rum runners operating between the liquor fleet off Montauk Point and the shore or Long Island. Mir. Merrick began an when he vas advised by a resident of Montauk Point that nu- merous Chinese had been seen in an q abandoned farm house on the edge of the village. Activities al the deserted house increased with the appearance l of two auxiliary schooners off the point.
 A free-f for all fight between men and women patrons of the Penataquit Inn, Ba vshors, l.. l., and prohibition agents who raided the establishment. was de- scribed by the raiders when they ar raigned Chauncey c. Cozine, owner Of the inn before United states Commis- sioner Rasauin in Brooklyn. Cozine