LIQUOR STEAMER SEIZED
fIAREKG SCHEME FRUSTRATED Prest Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. August 12. (Bcccivcd August 13, at 11 a.in.) The biggest liquor seizure made for a long time was effected when police, marine patrolmen, and eoastguardsmon captured the steamer Ausonia beside the Statue of Liberty after chasing her from Staten Island dock. Liquor valued at 1,000,000 dollars was seized, also six motor trucks and three automobiles. Thirty-six of the crow and forty-three other persons at the dock were arrested. Attention was first drawn to the Ausonia when large trucks arrived in the early hours of the morning, and a largo number of men were actively engaged in unloading the vessel at an hour when the dock is usually deserted. The patrolman lelephoned to the authorities, and officers quickly arrived and surrounded the dock, whereupon the crew attempted to dash for freedom in the open sea, hut they wore soon overtaken.
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Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 6
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150LIQUOR STEAMER SEIZED Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 6
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