One hundred years ago, Ocean County experienced one of the strangest cases of the Prohibition era, a case still unsolved but open to speculation.
The year began with a Boston Globe article on Jan. 1 showing that rum-running could be a dangerous business.
“Two unidentified members of the crew of a 2 masted schooner were drowned late last night when the tanker Nora, bound from New York to Tampico, Mexico, ran her down and sank her off Barnegat, NJ, it was reported at quarantine tonight by officers…
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