WHISKY BALLAST
BOOZE SMUGGLERS’ MISFORTUNE. On January 18 the British auxiliary schooner Bertha A had the misfortune to be rammed rixteen miles off the New Jersey coast by the British steamer Sheaf Field, lhe schooner was cut to the water-line but managed to make New York harbour. When the authorities boarded her the captain explained that he was bound from West End, Great Bahama, to St. John, New Brunswick, but a succession of storms had blown him far to the west. The authorities not having heard of any recent storms examined the ship’s ballast and found it to consist of 116,000 qqarts of whisky packed in bags ready to lower into small boats, of which a large fleet manned by smugglers is constantly cruising off New Jersey coast. The ship and its cargo were seized, and the captain, mate, and crew of 12 arrested on charges of conspiracy to violate the American Prohibition Laws. The Revenue Authorities declared that they had a long list of smuggling charges to prefer against their prisoners, who for many months had successfully evaded capture within the territorial waters of America.
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Southland Times, Issue 19480, 1 April 1922, Page 10
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186WHISKY BALLAST Southland Times, Issue 19480, 1 April 1922, Page 10
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