United States v. 5,870 Bags & 100 Kegs

FRANK J. COLEMAN, District Judge.

On April 1, 1930, shortly after midnight, the motor ship Ada M was found lying in the neighborhood of Ambrose Light Ship under circumstances which unquestionably indicate that ábe was engaged in the smuggling of her cargo of liquor. She was unanchored, but her engines were stopped and she showed no light whatever except the intermittent flashing of a white light. Her portholes were covered with some dark fabric manifestly as a precaution against being observed. Part of her large cargo of liquor had been removed in such a way as to leave the ship unseaworthy…