CUSTOMS MAY’S DREAM.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2
Bringing to his aid Joseph’s gift of interpreting dreams, a New York Customs officer succeeded in uncovering 2,000 bags of bottled whisky valued at £50,000. Mr. John McGill, a deputy Customs surveyor, dreamed on Friday night that he saw a fishing smack named Carolina being loaded with liquor under cover of fog, and that later when at sea the ship staggered like a drunken man, its captain and its crew being too intoxicated to control the vessel.
Yesterday morning Mr. McGill instructed his men to search the East and North Rivers for a vessel named Carolina. They found one named Caroline, a harmless-looking smack, unloading fish near the Fulton Fish Market. The agents reported accordingly, but Mr. McGill ordered them to dig deeper. Then the dream came true, in part at least, for a secret compartment under five tons of fish held rye whisky. Mr. McGill explained the incident by saying: “It is a family trait to dream of the sea, and our dreams mostly como true.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1928, Page 2
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