Show SHANNON PRANK COSTS HIS LIFE Rum Runner Shows Pro Pro- Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition Chiefa Chief a Close Close- Close up up End Comes BY L IL SpecIal Correspondent of TI The U l-U Copyright 1926 1926 By y The Tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association I IIA MIAMI If Fla ala March March- G-B G Big 6 6 faced red faced jovial Ite Rfd Red l Shannon hom coast guards kne knew as king of the Miami rum ruin runners and who only a month ago aga treated General Lincoln C Andrews na- na national na national prohibition chief to a II close up lip of ot rum runt running audacity has paid aid for his prank with his life The coast guard bullet that end end- ende end ended e ed 1 Shannon's last lass spectacular at- at attempt at attempt tempt to land a cargo of ot lIqUor at Miami beach brought to a close perhaps the Ihl th most dating career of coastwise lawlessness since the do days s 's when the pirate flags of Blackboard Blackbeard Morgan G Gas Gas- Gasparilla Gas parilla s- s parilla and PIerre Lafiette haunt haunt- haunted haunted haunted ed the tho eoa coasts ts of Florida But a posthumous ha has been opened with the tho arrest of ot five coast guardsmen following n a eh civil 11 It inquest which charged man nal manslaughter slaughter death Inthe death of Shannon Six eye cye including Carl Carla G a Fisher Miami Ium Beach Beach Deach financier testified that the runs rum runner had been shot eliot while he had halt his hands bands In the air In tol token toen cn of surrender General Andrews Andrew has taken of- of official of official cognizance of the affair In ina ina a statement declaring that the lIC guardsmen will be defended by United States counsel In federal court since a report to his Ills de- de department de department shows hows that they acted In line of dut duty Little moro more than a a month ago GEneral Andrews visited Miami on an n Inspection tour tO of ot the south district It happened that Shannon pie picked ked that inopportune Inopportune tune moment to run one of his periodical cargoes of liquor Into Miami channel A small coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard boat bat was wal conveying Gen Gen- Gen Gen- General oral eral Andrews to his revenue re cut cut- cut cutter ter outside the harbor entrance DS as Shannon made a II dash dash- down the channel in his super pow powered red speed speedboat speedboat speedboat boat loaded with contraband Friends of tile tie the dead rum runner sa say he lie recognized General An- An Andrew's Andrews An Andrews drews drew's aboard 1 the coast guard boat but Shannon did not turn back Instead back Instead he sped his cr crt crit- t the bows of the coast suard boat insolently thumbed his nose no e at the dry czar and derisively chucked overboard three hams of liquor Before the tha coast guardsmen had recovered from their surprise Shannon's boat Loat was speeding out of danger of their small firearms That day press wires told the story of or ho how a rum runner hurled defiance at the nations nation's prohibition tion chief and friends of Shannon say coast Coart guardsmen swore to toI I get the red headed ono one who hind hal dared to demonstrate their before the Us big N boss hOM Its ils all In iii the game Sh Shannon told hospital attendants attendant when th they informed ormed him that he c could uld not survive his wounds Tied net Shan Shan Shan- Shannon Shannon non played the tho g game me squarely and andon andon on his lila nerve lie He was a dead game sport That wa was the Iho tribute paid the rummie b by the man who fought him to the tho last Corn last Com manlIer C G 0 Porcher of the theMi Miami ml coast guard base bas It was trul truly all a game with this lie daredevil Irishman christened Duncan W IV but ut whom friends friend called Rod Hod Though Shannon probably had haJ run Into inami 2 and south Florida more liquor than any two other rum runners lie he died a II comparatively poor man It was easy money lOoney easily To Red ned the real reDI zest lest of the business was as the battle of wits in which he repeatedly out out guessed the coast const guards Most picturesque of all figures Who frequented the little harbor back of Gun Key In the Bahamas was ted Red Shannon All II the rum rum- rummies mies agreed he was well welt supplied with Irish brass One Ono after after- afternoon afternoon afternoon noon Shannon and a coast guard officer sat In the cabin robin of a rum slUng selling ship Shannon's speed boat boa Goose w was wa l lying along alongside Goose is loaded for the trip tripa a helper announced All 11 right answered Shannon and turning to to- to the coast guards guards- guardsman guardsman man mal lie Ito challenged challenged- I I am ant starting for tor Miami Come lets let's ha have e a race Before Detore the tho officer could board his own craft the Goose had enough lead ICI 1 to outdistance the patrol boat boatin in the mile 43 reach across the gulf stream to Miami |