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Extra alert were the Coast Guard outside of New York Harbor one night last week. They had been tipped off that a big load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...
...Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
Puzzled harbor officials called up the Newtex Line next day, asked whether its Texas Ranger had arrived. President Dennis Moloney replied no, of course not. She was several hundred miles from New York...
Word came that afternoon from Haverstraw, N. Y., 30 mi. up the Hudson, that a freighter had run aground in the mud and that the captain and six of the crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
...Barbados, owned by Continental Indies Shipping Co., Ltd., the abandoned ship was towed down the river into New York harbor and her cargo placed under guard. As she lay at anchor near the Statue of Liberty she created amazement among the officers and crew of the real Texas Ranger as they steamed in from Galveston...