Elizebeth, and her solutions exposed the ribs of the scheme: the names of the rum ships (Concord, Corozal, Fisher Lassie, Rosita, Mavis Barbara); their system of sneaking crates of liquor into lonely bayou towns on small boats called luggers and then unloading the crates onto freight trains, covered in sawdust. The government considered it “the greatest rum-running conspiracy since Prohibition,” and now Elizebeth had been summoned to this federal courtroom in New Orleans to explain her methods
