Milford chronicle., 1930-01-03
COAST GUARD SEXES
S25O,OOO WORTH OF
rum AND 36 MEN
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acy to smuggle intoxicating liquors
into the United States was ISSUED
Tuesday by u. S. Commissioner Lou.
der T. Hearn, at Salisbury, upon in
structions of U. S. Customs officials
Four of the persons named in the
warrants are alleged ring leaders OF
the rum smuggling ring. Commits
sioner Hearn fixed bail for each al
$4,000.
The other thirty-two persons are
all residents of Ocean City and i'm
mediate vicinity.
Meanwhile customs officials i'm
pounded six motor trucks and four
boats which had been seized by coast
guard and other authorities assisting
them.
Commissioner Hearn set the date
for hearing of the SO men at 10
O'Clock Friday morning in Salisbury.
The four alleged leaders are Sam
uel Hill, George Bolton, and Edward
S. Murtha, of Philadelphia, and Ed
ward F. Miller, Trenton, N. ]. They
have been held at the Snow Hill Jail,
though it was intimated they would
prepare to furnish the aggregate
cash bail of 100000 to procure their
release.
Ocean City residents named in the
complaint we're: James Bradford,
Dorsey L. Cropper, Elwood Parsons,
Norman Lynch, Orline Powell, Den
ard Quillen, Walter Redden, Levi
Cathell, Harry Gibans, Charles Quill
len, Clifford Harmon, Richard Har-
mon, Harris Powell, Harry Lynch,
Herman Wooten, Richard Hayward,
John H. Elliott, Charles Johnson,
George Jones, John E. Quillen, Ebe
Elliott, Spencer Elliott, Crawford
Savage, Charles Hastings, Joe Bunt-
ing, Joshua Bunting, Ralph Rich
ardson, Sim Harmon, Alfred Quillen,
Will MumfOrd, Ned Lynch.
U. S. Deputy Marshall Sewell W.
S. Reid left Commissioner Hearn's
office at o'clock to serve the war
rants against the four alleged lead
ers at the pail and to notify the 80
others to appear here for prelimi-
nary hearing Friday morning. If the
latter are ordered to appear in Fed
eral Court by Commissioner Hearn,
who will hear the testimony, they
will either be released on bail, the
amount of which is at yet underter-
mined or held in Jail until the case
is docketed and called.
In addition to the blanket COM
plant, warrants were issued against
the alleged leaders charging actual
and fraud against the U.
S. Government for non-payment of
import customs duty.
Inclusion of 13 other names to
those given out Monday came as
surprise move by the Customs Off
cials. The four leaders and 19 Ocean
City residents were caught in the
coast guard net Monday and placed
in the Ocean City Jail. The local men,
after being questioned for some time,
were released Monday night and
ordered to report at the Coast Guard
station at 8 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Each of them reported and af-
ter further questioning were again
released to report to the station at 8
o'clock Friday morning when they
will be brought to Salisbury for the
hearing.
After citing the location of the
seizures, the complaint alleges the
36 persons named "unlawfully and
did conspire to and did
import into the United States and
lid transport and conceal certain
to wit, approximately
!, $50 cases of intoxicating liquors"
u. S. District Attorney Amos w.
W. Wood cock and o. N. Forrest, his
chief assistant, will personally con-
luct the government prosecution of
he &c at Salisbury Friday. Colonel
Wood cock went to Ocean City late
Tuesday afternoon and obtained first
land evidence.
Though on leave of absence from
lis Baltimore office to serve on
ipecial prohibition investigation |
with President HoOver's |
aw enforcement commission, Colonel |
Wood cock will return to personally |
axe charge of the government
'osecution.
Captain Purnell, who has been
With the Coast Guard personnel for
hirty years, Tuesday showed the af-
ects of the severe strain of the past
wo days. He said he had not been
O bed since last Friday.
MANY SUSSEX SCHOOLS