Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-08 | Page 3 | Coast Guards Put in Irons, Court Hears

I COAST GUARDS PUT IN IRONS COURT lEARS I-lEARS NEW V YORK Jan S AP lIow coast suspected ot of rum tum running V vere ie kept In Ott Oh a government boat until they confessed confessed con con- was told In federal court here by a former coast guard Juard commander corn com mander in the trial of eighteen members ot of the alleged Cos Kelly tello telio rum running syndicate Nicholas Brown formerly commander corn com mander ot of the coast guard patrol boat No testified yesterday that While on bail baU alter after his arrest on a charge ot of aidIng rum runn rs treasury department agents seIzed him and several others ethers Ut ot his drew crew and put them aboard the Seneca They were chained by theIr legs Ond arms to stanchions in time the foreCastle forecastle fore fore- castle of the craft Ime he said and kept there for O a week while a cruIse of rum row Was underway The hatches hatchs were battered down do the air was foul and the food and water given us was rotten Drown Brown said ald It was like a mad house and t I was nearly out omit ot of my h head ad Time The other prisoners were William Pump John Levine and Hughes he said Finally Drown Brown declared he was wa taken ashore after ho he signed a con con- ot of his rum running activities and admitted d to bail on the new charge Later he turned witness for forthe forthe the government and became an undercover agent for tor A. A Bruce Druce i. Many bribes one as high as 1800 were received from the runners said Brown Once he testifIed he was given ten 00 bills to be pass passed d to Samuel Briggs ex executive officer in charge of t coast coastguard coastguard guard base No 4 at New London Coin Cohn S Edward and Franl and Edw Edward rd and Frank Kelly are arc alleged al- al by the government have been ringleaders ot of the rum running run run- ning ring