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...seizure convention, a rumrunner may also be boarded within one hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned. Well aware of the potential technicalities of the Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing, or whether...
Immediately suspicious, Chief Boatswain's Mate Karl E. Schmidt commanding the Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin...