Show Bahama Booze Smuggler I I. I Tells of Thrilling Trip Sub Ch Chaser Chaser- Fouled With Rope to Effect Escape of Speedy Motorboat Journey Nets for Promoters Editors Editor's note note Here Here is the story of a modern smuggler one of of- the of-the the tho fleet of rum runners runners' operating off the Atlantic coast and providing providing one one ne of ot the channels through which somo of the liquor is brought into American ports Captain X whose real name Is withheld made mad this statement to a representative of ot the United Press in lit Norfolk Va where I he lives in the thc guise of a law abiding citizen when he is not at sea slipping past revenue cutters with goods from the Bahamas This is the third of the series of f stories on bootlegging operations opera opera- I I By MAX B. B COOK Written for the United Press Copyright 1921 by the United Press NORFOLK V Va Oct 28 Dodging Dodging I the flotillas of destroyers playing tag with submarine chasers cruising i to the breakers watching for the blink I of a light from the shore signaling allwell all allwell allwell well and cleaning up a fortune fortuno on a single voyage voyage these these are aro some of ot the experiences of an an Atlantic coast booze I I smuggler as told to the United Press today This smuggler smuggle Is one of ot many who I Iare are bringing cargo argo after cargo of liquor into this country from the West Indies II piling up astounding profits and laughIng laughing laughing laugh laugh- ing at the hooch blockade the government government government govern govern- govern govern- ment tries to maintain against them I His real name cannot be revealed He i will be called Captain X He Is a college college college col col- lege graduate and skipper of a speedy seagoing motorboat capable of carrying thirty tons While in Norfolk he lives Ih-es as a law abiding g citizen and resides ina In Ina ina a luxurious apartment While he is resting between trips he docks his rum rumrunner rumrunner rumrunner runner right in Norfolk harbor TELLS OF PLAN Here Is how we work he said Our shore agents quietly solicit orders from men who are able to buy stocks for their cellars and are willing to pa pay a good price for tor high class goods In tw two weeks we have enough orders to load my boat Wo We cleared d decks for action so to speak disposed of all nil nonessentials and took along an arsenal of six rifles and plenty of ammunition For a a crew I had a man who had been taking care of the tho boat in the harbor and a negro whom I hired to help with the engines and stand watch Before I sailed our shore agent told me there were two other boats making the trip but that they would put Into other ports We made the Bahamas In six days and never saw a government craft It was about two hours after we landed landed landed land land- ed that a man came up told me he knew I was a rum runner and said he was a dealer and In a position to fill my order That order Included Scotch whisky gin all kinds of ot brandies rum and about every foreign liquor you I could name but the dealer had them all in his store I j Loading the cargo was ticklish i work We knew the government had I agents bootleg gers d down wn there for tor bootleggers bootleg bootleg- gelS gers so the they could get ready to Intercept Intercept Inter inter- us We worked at night The I booze was carried down to the water waterfront waterfront front and stowed on barges under bales of hay Then we slipped alongside my boat and transferred the cases DANGER BEGINS 1 Then with our valuable cargo under I hatch we started stalled the real dangerous I part of the business We kept a close watch on the return voyage expecting any minute to have some revenue boat II down on us A A. fairly big steamer hove in hi sight one day and passed quite close I I We Wo kept right on our way suspecting nothing when suddenly out from be behInd behind behind be- be I hind the steamer popped a submarine chaser circled the big ships ship's stern and I came for us hell bent We altered our course a 8 couple of times but the chaser kept right on heading for us Finally when she was just close aboard I turned and went straight to meet her We kept our heads down as we passed and laid out a Do cable over our stern She turned around almost on her own axis and did just what we figured she would do fouled her propeller in inthe inthe I Ithe the cable That finished the chase We went on our way It was a close shave I But the next morning was even more startling We ran plump Into a a. flotilla of American destroyers They were all around us Believe me for a afew afew afew I few minutes I thought our cargo wasn't worth a nickel But they never even hailed us and we kept on our way It It was dark and rather thick when we made the coast We were on the tho point of giving up when blink-blink blink came the signal of our agent We sure were glad to see It We picked our way into a cove and there was the shore agent with three motor trucks waiting for us We transferred the i booze that night and that was as tar far faras taras ar I as I went with it I II We made on that trip Brown got half and the navigator and the negro were paid handsomely We have made a number of or trips since then and cleaned up each time I |