LIQUOR SHIP
ABANDONED IN HUDSON £200,000 OF CARGO SEIZED NEW YORK, October 4. A vessel bearing tho name Texas Ranger on her stern but identified by Customs officers as the British freight steamer Holmwood of West Hartlepool« was found abandoned in tho Hudson River off Haverstraw to-day. Tho ship and her cargo, consisting of 25,000 cases of fine liquors, estimated as worth £200,000, was seized by tho Customs authorities. The Texas Ranger entered the harbor on Monday'night signalling that she was about to go to the Erie Basin for repairs and then proceed up the Hudson to Albany. Later that night what is bolicverl lo ho the same vessel steamed up the Hudson, successfully evading inquiries of the Customs’ patrol men. Yesterday afternoon 19 men were arrested in Haverstraw as vagrants. They told the police that they were Nova Scotians who had como ashore after their ship had grounded. The captain of the vessel had eone to New York by train. The seizure of the ship followed an investigation of their story.. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18258, 29 November 1933, Page 11
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