SHELLED OF U.S. COAST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 9

SHELLED OF U.S. COAST

CAPTAIN DIES OF WOUNDS

CANADIAN CITIZEN

Xfnlted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. • NEW YOEK, 25tli January. Captain. William Oluett, o£ Lunenfcerg, Nova Scotia, has died in the United States Marine Hospital at Stateii Island of wounds received when a coast-guard cutter shelled an alleged rum boat —a British vessel, the Joad-1 phino X., registered at Digby, Nova Scotia, of which Cluett was master. Coast-guard officers stated that the cutter discovered a British ship trans- . ferring liquor to a tug and barge near Ambrose Channel. The cutter fired blank shells as a ■warning, whereupon Cluett's ship tried to escape. One-pound shells were then fired, one striking the pilot house in which the master was found wounded. When the boat stopped the coastguardsmen boarded it, took Cluett to hospital, and seized the Josephine X, the tug, and the barge. REPORTED liIQTXOR CARGO. The coastguards reported that the value of the liquor cargo seized was 250,000 dollars. They arrested 19 men, including the crews of the barge and the tug which belonged to a: local shipping organisation, and which is believed to have been_ co-operating in liquor smuggling without the knowledge of its owners. The British boat is said to have been running rum for a long time, but never before has it been caught. Those held have not yet testified, but the local coastguard commandant stated: "There is no doubt that the Josephine K. was within the twelvemile limit." '. He praised the ■unidentified cutter captain for his handling of the situation, and said that the firing o£ the shot which killed Cluett was entirely justified. He considered it certain taat the Canadian Government -would request an explanation, as in the I'm Alone case. The only version of the Josephine K. case yet available is that of the coastguard officers.