Show PLEASURE SU E BO BOAT T HIT BY UM CH SE SHOT Excursionist Slightly Wound Wound- Wounded ed When Craft Gets in Center of Fight BT By Associated Press DETROIT July 22 An 22 An excursion steamer with 1000 members of a achurch achurch church young oung peoples people's society on onboard onboard onboard board became the center of a a. brush between liquor runners and U. U S S. S cus cus- toms oms border patrolmen on the Detroit river last night and one of the thc shots fired ired wounded an excursionist in the arm The TIle fugitive speedboat and Its cre crew of two escaped Into Canadian waters having laving dumped a part of or its cargo I The consensus of or witnesses U to the moving fast drama was that the shot which wounded Arthur 23 on the steamer Ste. Ste Claire probably ricocheted from the hull of the rum boat x at as it sped past the steamer The Ste. Ste Claire's Claires rail was lined with merrymakers merrymakers mer mer- who had deserted the dance floor loor to watch the chase WITNESSES GIVE STORY First stories told by the passengers after they landed were that the rum boat had taken refuge from three pursuing pur pur- suing boats alongside the steamer and hat the crew of a border patrol boat had fired 40 shots at the two runners with the St Ste. Ste Claire in the theine theline line ine of fire Walter S. S Petty assistant U. U S. S collector col col- lector ector of customs after interviewing the he patrolmen involved said aId it had been a running fight between the therum therum rum ruin runners and the patrolmen started by the smugglers and that the patrolmen had withheld their fire when the Ste. Ste Claire and a yacht acht that was passing in hi the channel came in line He said 12 shots were fired by the patrolmen all directed away from the he steamer If a border patrol bullet struck Gajeski it must have ricocheted ricocheted ricocheted rico rico- he said Petty said the patrolmen told him they hey had seen the liquor boat heading heading head head- ing ng toward a private dock on the American side and after waiting forit forit for fort it t to tie up approached It Three automobiles au au- were waiting to receive its cargo he said I RUNNER OPENS FIRE FIRE I At the approach of the patrolmen he le said the rum boat sped for the Canadian shore hore one of the runners opening fire at the pursuers from behind a steel shield back of the drivers driver's seat and dumping bulky sacks overboard The fire was returned by patrol officers he said which continued until they reached a point feet from rom the ship channel when our men nen stopped firing iring on account of the proximity of the steamer S Sic Ste Claire going down river Two more more shots were fired when the he ru veered back toward the American shore he said then the fugitive boat circled toward Canada again ahead of or the yacht on the starboard starboard star star- board side of the Ste. Ste Claire and escaped es es- es The only way we can account for fora fori a i bullet striking a p passenger on the thc st Ste. Ste Claire is that either one of the bullets from the rum runner or from one of our men ricocheted he added When th the bullet is extracted from the he patients patient's arm we ve can tell better where it came from p |