St. Albans, Vt., Mar. 18.—(AP)—A race between rum runners in a sleigh and border patrolmen in a snowmobile ended today in victory for the snowmobile, a hard but bloodless fight and capture of the liquor traffickers. The sleigh contained 144 quarts of liquor.
For miles Officers Palmer and Salvas chased the light racing sleigh, occupied by three men and drawn by a valuable blooded horse, through the deep, snows in the wilderness north of here. When they caught up the men leaped from the sleigh while two engaged in a combat with their would-be captors the third fled. One of the patrolmen chased him for two and a half miles and brought him back after a tussle.
The border patrolmen said they had carried out their rule of “don’t shoot until they shoot” with the result that not a shot was fired. The captured men were P. H. Maynard and Ferdinande and a James Fountain, all of Ibeville, Quebec. They will be arraigned tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, March 19, 1926