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Show TRUCKLOAD OF-INTAKE OF-INTAKE IMPORTED I LI0L1SEIZED :: - -iX . "'" "' :; Bootlegger Wraps Hooch I! in Sack Dampened With Sea, Water to Resemble ' .; . 3 m u ggled Cargo . . ..'' SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. A J ) bootlegger toe law respecting to violate the counterfeiting law, but ,' who sought 40 disguise his moon- -shine whisky sa distillery liquor. ,' Irecentty smuggled Into this country - -by wrapping it In sacks dampened .1 Jn salt water, has appeared here, -aceordlne to H. H. Dolley. chief of - -the prohibition field forces here. - - The bootlegger apparently sought ' 'to turn to hie own account the ex-I ex-I ' r tensive publicity that has attended . , -alleged smuggling of large ouantl-. - -ties of liquor Into this city from -' -vessels off the three-mile limit tax ; ," ;the Pacific, Dolley said. . I Government agents spoiled He .plana, however, by arising a truck "sextifad' na 'Teaor eda! and eeiBaee"' -. -ng the driver, W. O. Smith. Smith ' "told the agents he did not know the ;man wn nlred him to drive the Struck from here to San Jose. r- According to Dolley, the bootleg-" bootleg-" -ger had sought ts disguise the ' 'moonshine further by puling strips ' marked "export." across the corks. . . attaching stsmps resembling Inter-i Inter-i nal revenue stsmps, and atlrklng en ' ' a caution label declaring the liquor ' 'was for export or medicinal pur-I, pur-I, Jpoeea only. While the stamps re- . -sembled internal revenue etampa. It was aald they were sufficiently dlf-" dlf-" - f erent from them to save the dle- trtbutor from a charge of violating the counterfeiting law. |