LIQUOR RUNNERS CAUGHT.
AX EXCITING CHASE. STOPPED ONLY BY BBI.BBTS. Liquor running in America is <m exciting and (latinorons occupation, as the following incident related in :t New York paper shows : —• 'l-1.0 ships of Rum Row ci-mml ilioiv anchor chains in .1 heavy .sea. Han; fell through the mist. As night deepened, the iiimieis ill their sneer! boais prepared for the dash to shore with their cargoes of liquor. _ The revenue culler Gresham was in the vicinity of the Brm«h schooner Dnimnnlina at 10.45. dhe I>.an.a«t iii-i h-J been off the derse.v coast foi * '"’ r disposing of thousands of I ns \ s the Clresham carno looming 11 u onph tU* foe. she made out a ,notor boa hcs. lo t o schooner. The revenue cutler hove to a t rmCerl her speed boat overboard. Iho cXr were 100 slow to catch U.o flee craft of the liquor pirates, and so come to fighting tiro with lire. f q'he rum runners did not wait tm mi inei oWuliolk but cast off from the ti.ui and prepared to slip away ■>’ „ p ™ The Government, boat vs as quick v maimed ami was off with, a tour <■ T„ the how -V ( ;lvU e hisL«nie t omitted toms people ask th ; l T"Vnw are 100 tolorwia vca.iv. k "£”\Zi Si Uieir' C searcldight playing over the water ah Tl,ev we've within hailing distance after W[ »» !’-'Ldlel the W* ag (i a Til .G gunner, but. stopping leading hoal onh t. c,ou gunner began Sr hhT’work'!more P w^io«sly, U - the next 15 minutes sent: 40 pilots down the "''Amu as e t/m w" .hvork of the leader began J hen as uu iv.rrow grooves made 1° 'it "-'i;:,.;;.: mA... .lolm .ml Thomas i;»k , “.io.4'u» *o. ” [ he jo ;, n , , ;"ik” o: n" T”‘ 'iS .tid ended fair S::d~e.il"f I-fa.SAo . nd
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 12
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303LIQUOR RUNNERS CAUGHT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 12
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