DETECTIVE'S DREAM
LED TO RUM-RUNNER’S CAPTURE. NEW YORK, Dec. 20, Bringing to his aid Joseph’s gilt of interpreting dreams, a New York Customs officer succeeded in uncovering 2000 bags of bottled whisky valued at £50,000.
Mr John McGill, a deputy Customs surveyor, dreamed that ho saw n 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 crew being too intoxicated to control the vessel. Next day Mr McG ill instructed In si men to search thei 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. They searched it and found that a secret compartment under five tons of fish held rye whisky.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 26 December 1928, Page 3
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