Philadelphia. Apr. 5.
The schooner Nomad owned by! Leland H. Ross, prominent New Yorker, arrived here to-day in tow of United States Coast Guard cutters after drifting helplessly for eleven Jdays at the merey of wind and sea.
Captain John Scofield was missing, having been washed overboard heavy seas, and the crew of four ]was in a state of exhaustion. Mr.
Ross declared that engine trouble and not the drunkenness of the Jerew, as vas originally supposed, was responsible for the dereliction lof the vessel.
In answer to distress signals from the Nomad, Coastguard officials took the schooner in tow 18 miles from the Atlantic coast on Thursday and guided her into port. They found the crew in an unconscious condition, and later arrested Ross and two of the sailors charges of carrying contraband liquor The owner of the Nomad was re eased to-day when the customs were convinced that the incapacity fof the engine and the exhaustion lof the crew were the only onuses of the vessel's, plight.—United Press,
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