I’M ALONE CASE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 2

I’M ALONE CASE

CAPTAIN AND CREW DISMISSfeD. (United Press Association— By Electric .? Telegraph—Copyright.) . (Australian Press Association). Received April 18, 10.10 a m. NEW ORLEANS, April 9. In moving for the dismissal of the crew of the I’m Alone, the district Attorney, Mr Talbot contended nevertheless that the action of the cutter was justified. He statedtha he asked for the dismissal on the authority of the Attorney-General. Mr Talbot . declared that any- further indemnity action wou}d have to be handled between the United States and the Canadian Givernments. Captain Randall and the crew, who were present, were visibly relieved. Mr Randall.said: ‘‘Thank God 111 go to sea again some day, but it won t be as ja rum-runner. I m through with that.” The captain added that he and the five white members of the crew would leave to-morrow overland for Montreal.- _ CANADA’S ATTITUDE. REPRESENTATIONS PRESENTED. (Australian Press Association United Service.) Received April 10, 12.5 p-m-WASHINGTON, April 9. Canadian representations against the sinking of the I’m Alone were presented to-day. The contents have not been revealed. The auxiliary schooner I’m Alone, registered in Canada, which was suspected of being a carrier of contraband liquor, was sunk off the American coast on March 22 by a United States coastguard craft, the Dexter. A negro member of the crew of the schooner, Leon Maingay, was killed or drowned. Ho was said to have been a French subject. A message from Washington stated that the man originally came from the ! French Atlantic colony of St. Pierre et Miquelon. It was maintained in some .quarters that Maingay was a naturalised British subject. There are two factors of prime importance m tho situation. The first is whether the I’m Alone was 14 or 15 miles out at sea—as her master, Captain Randall, vehemently affirmed—and, therefore, outside the treaty jurisdiction of the United States. The second point is whether the schooner was in truth a British ship or merely a rumrunner masquerading under the British flag.