The Milwaukee Leader, 30 December 1929, page 3: clash over the Black Duck inquiry

Page 3 of the Milwaukee Leader, 30 December 1929, Home Edition. The story is a United Press report “Continued From Page One” under the headline “Clash Over Quiz of Three Rum Slayings.” The carried-over text says an inquiry was “based on the fact that the shootings of the crew of the Black Duck occurred within the three-mile territorial limit.”

It reports that “The crew of the CG-290 saw the speedboat running without lights entering Narragansett bay near Dumpling Rock,” that Boatswain Alexander C. Cornell “signalled Black Duck to halt,” and that “The Black Duck increased her speed.” It names the dead as Jack Weiseman of Providence, Dudley Brandt of Boston and John Goulart of Fairhaven, and gives the survivor Charles Travers’s statement that the Coast Guard fired without proper warning. The page spells the Providence man’s name “Weiseman”; the Washington Times spells it “Weisman.”

The page reports two conflicting accounts of a shooting and the start of official inquiries. It makes no finding, and this archive takes none from it.