MOR-0767

Captain Stuart S. Stone

1927-04-22

SFP 39

Still image

1 photographic print : b&w ; 22 x 17 cm.

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Box: P685 Folder: Stone, S - Z
Newscopy: "Slug (Captain Stuart S. Stone). Captain gets his rum-laden ship then loses it. Captain Stuart S. Stone, giving a cheer as he gets aboard his rum-laden steamer federalship, just after he and nineteen members of the crew were released from jail in San Francisco where federal judge George S. Bourquin denounced the seizure of the vessel 300 miles off the Golden Gate as comparable to the causes that led up to the War of 1812. He no more than got aboard when the Coast Guard chased him off, saying they had no orders from Washington to let him board the boat with its million dollar cargo of 12,500 cases of choice liquor. The controversy is to be settled by Washington diplomats as the federalship carried the Panaman flag and its crew are mostly British. All bureaus (List A) Call..4/22/27."

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