RUM-RUNNING SHIP BOLDLY CAPTURED
NEW YORK OFFICER SINGLE-HANDED TAKES CREW PRISONER By Cable —Press Association. —Copyright NEW YORK, Monday. A daring attempt to smuggle a valuable cargo of alcohol on to the very shores of Manhattan Island was frustrated to-day. A rum-runner, the Greypoint (renamed the Economy), passed the Statue of Liberty en route to New York. She carried a crew of 22 men and was loaded with £IOO,OOO worth of liquor. Ensign Duke, of the coastguard, was alone in a motor-boat patrolling the harbour at dawn when he espied the vessel running without lights. He overhauled her and single-handed took the crew into custody and returned to the shore with his prize. The Greypoint, which is on the British registry, had succeeeded in avoiding dozens of anti-rum-running craft and was within a few hours of landing its cargo. A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 1
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