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Bootlegger cache in Lake Erie

<>And since it was a bootlegger boat, who know what else could be on board, so if your diving in Lake Erie and find a 35 foot boat, don’t be so quick to pass by it with out looking around first and making sure it not the Ada Maybelle.

Here is the copy from the Ohio newspaper

Chronicle Telegram (Elyria, Ohio)

24 Apr 1925 Fear Crew of Rum Runner Lost

Cleveland O., April 24 - With the finding of the body of George Knaggs, one of the members of the crew on board the Canadian launch Ada Maybelle, which cleared Port Stanley, Ont., Saturday bound for Cleveland with 300 cases of beer aboard, authorities today considered reports confirmed that the rum-runner went down in a storm on Lake Erie Monday with her crew of three Canadians and her supercargo, a Cleveland bootlegger.

Knaggs' body was picked up yesterday morning thirty miles northeast of Cleveland by the tug New York, of the Booth Fisheries Company, Cleveland, according to reports. He had died from exposure in the icy waters, it was believed. A life preserver, stamped with the name “Valkrie”, the former name of the Ada Maybelle, was strapped to his body.

posted by The Mulacs at 6:19 PM