The Archive · 1926

British Trawler as Rum Runner

Capture by Coastguards in New Jersey New York, Oct. 4.

The sudden appearance of coast-_ guards at Bayway, New Jersey, caused a scuttle among the crew unloading the cargo of a large Br tish steam trawler, which officials describe as an, old ram-running offender.

The vessel apparently sailed through the coast-guard fleet and eluded the police-boats.

She had unloaded 1,000 out of 2,000 cases of liquor which she had ard before the coast-guards arrived and took possession—Reuter,

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