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Show Whisky Buried Deep in the Bay How Canadian Smugglers Cached Wholesale Quanti-. Quanti-. ties of "Booze." BROUGHT FROM VANCOUVER Arrests in Seattle Cause Breakup of Big Ring Trips Between Seattle Seat-tle and Vancouver Were Made Under Cover of Darkness. Seattle, Wash. Watery depths of Elliott bay formed the hiding place in wuicn a uquor smuggling ring cached wholesale quantities of Canadian whisky whis-ky brought by boat from Vancouver prior to the arrest of four of its members, mem-bers, uccording to disclosures made by Lieut. E. C. Collier, head of the police dry squad, says a recent issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Lieutenant Collier made public the Information regarding the ring following follow-ing the sentencing of two of Its members mem-bers in federal court and the failure of the launch operated by the gang to arrive at its customary place in keeping keep-ing with the schedule planned previous pre-vious to the arrest of the four members mem-bers of the ring. Gus Hanson, licensed mariner, and John Morris, a deck hand, were sentenced sen-tenced to serve 30 days in the county jail and pay a fine of $200 by Judge Jeremiah Neterer when they pleaded guilty to transporting liquor. The charges against them were the first in this district to be filed directly under the authority of the new federal prohibition pro-hibition law. Bert Jackson and John Olson, laborers, were arrested at the same time Hanson and Morris were taken and are still held in the city jail. The arrest of the quartette took place at the base of a 200-foot cliff on Magnolia bluff while the men were taking the last 180 quarts of Canadian Cana-dian whisky out of the water preparatory pre-paratory to carrying it to the top of the cliff above and storing it In a thicket less than forty yards off Mag- nolia boulevard near the southern end of Thirty-seventh avenue west. A member of the dry squad bad purchased the amount In question by making an initial payment with marked money, when he was joined by his fellow squad members, and the four men arrested. The launch that had brought the whisky from Vancouver Van-couver was scheduled to return with another load some time between midnight mid-night and daylight. In the mornir dry squad oilicers waited In vain for its arrival at the customary point off Magnolia bluff. According to the plan of operation as gathered by Lieutenant Collier, the ring was composed of about seven men, three of them thoroughly versed In navigation and particularly acquainted ac-quainted with sound waters. Trips between Seattle and Vancouver were made entirely under the cover of darkness, dark-ness, the boat taking its load at a scheduled spot near Vancouver and unloading it into the bay off Magnolia bluff. Each sack was tied to a small cord and lowered to the bottom of the hay, the cords being tied together on an iron bar and the bar placed under shallow water near the shore. The sacks containing the whisky seized by the dry squad were still wringing wet when found, while a maze of cords was discovered near the water's edge where they bad been discarded. The path up the side of the cliff showed that the place had been used for seme time, apparently for the purpose pur-pose of bringing up whisky. |
