blog post from Oregon Historical society.
https://www.ohs.org/blog/the-moon-shines-on-the-moonshine.cfm
Excerpt from the blog post
On February 7, 1932, a boat named Sea Island manned by a Canadian trio — Charles Ryall, William Kerr, and Stanley Babcock — ran aground in Oregon’s Whale Cove, locally known as Bootlegger Bay. The cove was ideal for small boats sneaking to shore in the dead of night to drop off bottles of Hennessy. The Canadians unloaded 400 cases of whiskey and several dozen bottles of 190 proof alcohol and buried it in the sand. Then — probably — they set the boat on fire to disguise its purpose and caught a ride to Portland with the “shore gang.” But the clean getaway was cut short when the car flipped over near Hebo on Highway 101. While the men dozed on a bus (then called a “stage”) to Portland, police investigators pulled the abandoned car out of the ditch and checked the license plate, which had been illegally switched. A quick call to Portland, and police were waiting for the bootleggers to give them a ride back to Lincoln County, to the Toledo jail.
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