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Show Yacht Buying Rum Boarded; Owner Fined NEW YORK, July tt. Julian B. Baker, a member of the Tamooua Yacht club la Sheepshesd Bay, said by Edward Barnes, assistant collector of customs, to b a brother- of former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, today was fined Hired after coast guards boarded his motorboat Modesty yesterdsy oulsld th three-mile limit ad found, six ease of whisky aboard. - - ' ' j Baker.' who wss accompanied on the Modeaty by Harry Hyatt, waa taksn Into custody chsrged with tranaportlng liquor within the twelve-mile limit. Hyatt wss discharged dis-charged when Baker cleared him of complicity. - Barne declared that. tnsamuch as there was no evidence of conspiracy con-spiracy and because the selxur wss mads outside th three-mil limit Baker was not charged with criminally violating the prohibition ' laws. After the fine wss Imposed I Baker wae released. Barnea said. I pending arrangement far payment. I Baiter admitted, Barnea said, that hs waa captured when returning from the rum fleet, where he had purchased the whisky from tha ; schooner J. B. Young, anchored off j riiindy Hook. Hemes quoted Baker ss saying ' that th whisky, which cost 127 a ' rase, was Intended for us at a i Saturday night danca at th yacht ' club. |