The Motorboat

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

Without details, it suffices to say that in the first libel it appears the customs patrol pursued the boat to a tieup at Weehawken wharf, boarded and found it abandoned by the crew, no manifest or other papers, laden with intoxicating beverages of foreign label, without evidence of taxes paid, of value $6,765, and seizure was followed by this libel. The boat is of federal number.

In the second libel, it likewise appears the Coast Guard in the nighttime observed the schooner some five miles oft Atlantic City proceeding towards the coast, without lights, and, after some…