Coast Guard Boats Riddle Liquor Craft

Photo of the Helen, a rum runner, sitting low in the water after being shot up by the Coast Guard. Men on board are seizing crates of liquor.

Two Vessels Captured After Early-Morning Battle in Long Island Sound.

NEW LONDON, Conn., October 25.—Guns aboard Coast Guard vessels blazed away yesterday in a hectic battle, fought in the darkness of early morning, with two suspected rum runners.

With five craft already to their credit as the result of previous encounters earlier in the week, the Coast Guardsmen in yesterday’s engagement riddled the liquor-laden speed boat Helen of Newport with machine-gun bullets and one-pound shells and captured a second speed boat, the Pueblos of Bridgeport, believed to be a sister ship of the Helen.

Carrying a liquor cargo of 1,000 cases and manned by a crew of four men, who escaped Injury, the Helen was beached after service vessels had pursued her In Long Island Sound. Coast Guard officials last night were arranging to have her cargo transferred to the local base and to have her refloated if possible. The Pueblos was brought here for examination.

Evening Star, Washington, DC, October 26, 1930

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