The New York herald., 1871-01-13
THE BOSTON SMUGGrhA
A Couple Of Principals For
the Accessories -'charged.
a, Custom House officials
r.,s-.. by the Absence of Wit
nesses in Canada

BOSTON. Jan. L. 1871.
~, Use OF those villanous Boston smugglers
10 have been on trial here IN the United States
Jourt during the past three weeks, finished to-
day. Samuel g. Lund and Dexter f. Mills, a couple
Of the principals IN the stupendous transactions,
were found guilty, but their counsels filed motions
to have the verdict set aside, on the ground
that 1t was contrary 70 the evidence In the case.
Perry, Freeman, skeele and Underwood, who were
In the employ OF the men found guilty, acqult
ted by the jury, and they were discharged. Mr..
Restieaux, the confidential detective or the collector
OF the Boston port Mr.. Sanderson another officer In
the Boston Custom House, and Mr.. Ganleld OF
Brooklyn, N Y, and an officer In the New York
Custom House, who were all indicted by the Grand
Jury, have not yet been tried, and probably
Will not be. inasmuch rs Gaflled Is IN Canada, and
toe witnesses against the others also sojourning
within the jurisdiction of the New Dominion.
The HERALD has already given account OF the
extent OF these glaring smuggling transactions but
Will nevertheless add the chief facts which have been
ELECTED the protracted trial. 1t appears from the
evidence that early IN the spring 1869 certain par
ties In Boston, New York, and Yarmouth, Nova SEQ.
tia conspred to take certain goods stored In Boston
out OF bond (recelvlng drawbacks thereonl export
them in the usual way to Yarmouth and IRON thence
ship them coastwise; but instead OF landng the
goods at coastwise port the vessels carrying
them rendezvoused at Tusket Island on the
Nova Scotia coast, where they were transferred TO
! into Boston and New York. This latter vessel was
| small schooner OF about forty TONS named the
bought for BENZ. Stanwood, OF Yarmouth n. s., but
the bl oi sale was made out in the name OF Captain
William Snow. captain named Snow was EN-
\ ployed 10 command this vessel; but the pecu-
llarity OF the transaction was tnat whlle the cap
tain $ name was George Snow tthe person In whose
name the bill OF sale was executed) his brother,
who was teamsier, was named George Snow.
A crew being obtained for the Hodgkns. she
cleared for New YORK; but instead OF going there
\ direct went to Tus&et Island, where q cargo of
| goods were taken on board taken to New YORK,
and there landed, "a If direct from Boston. num-
ber OF empty domestic liquor, flour and other bar
rels We're taken into which The liquors were trans
ierrcd from the original packages, ana nutmsgs
! cloves, &C., the nutmegs being marked soak pugsn
A man named GaiDeid, q Custom House inspector
In New York, acted as agent for the goods In that
| city, though Slanwood Nils ana Lund were, ac-
cording to government witnesses. seen there en-
gagged IN the business connected with the smuggled
goods. After landing her cargo in New York and
taking empty barrels. &C., on board the Hodgklns
sailed again for Boston, but went by way OF Tusket
Island, where another cargo was taken on board.
The evidence as TO the completely or Stanwood
IN the Boston importatlons is conclusive
and Lund The latter, however, was the party, in
connection with Cornelius dyson zone of the gov
Identical goods sm1gsed exported to Yarmouth.
The goods that were run into New York were ship
ped by ran TO Boston and those received In Boston
| ON TO very difficult trail to follow.
| Among the goods exported was large quantity OF
castor OIL which was transferred into Oil barrels on
board the HOdgkins, aud marked "machine ol.'
Freeman who was in Mills employ and stored
some or the smuggled goods at a warehouse leased
Ivy his employer, al Al India street, implicated
as having a guilty knowledge OF the goods stored.
| His plea was that he was acting for himself;
| had no guilty knowledge OF the smuggling
and stored the goods as he had done
other goods not smuggled. Perry, Skeele and
Underwood were teamsters employed to cart the
smugged goods, and their plea was tnat they had
| no guilty knowledge Of the smuggling. Perry how
| ever, did more. He hired cellar ut India wharf,
where some OF the smuggled goods were stored, and
| Afterwards seized. Lunu was proved to have paid
bills on account OF the smuggling schooner, and to
have sold some OF the liquors smuggled in her His
connection with the business was pretty well estab-
lished by the government evidence, though he
| parties.
Mills, II he was one OF the principals in the tran
| sactlOn had covered his tracks so well that 1t was
| hard to make out a case against hm-the only di-
rect evidence obtained as to his completely being
the active part he took in the disposal of the snug
dt6t In this case was not successful The principal
witnesses or the government were George Snow,
! captain OF the smuQger, who turned States cvi-
| dence, and hls brother William, the teamster CAT
/ field and Stanwood escaped to Canada, though the
latter was in Boston last fall, and had promised to
1 give important testimony In the case.
The ID. ii. Hodgklns, during the spring and sum-
mer OF 1862 smUg2led ten cargoes OF goods into New
YORK and eight into Boston. one of the cargoes
smuggled was principally composed OF nutmegs,
the duty on which. II paid would have amounted to
nearly $4,000. The first cargo brought into
vember OF the same year. Only portion OF the last
cargo was seized by the government.
The amount supposed to have been fraudulently
Drought into the country IN this vessel is estimated
at about $780, 600, ana the loss to the revelue by
the transaction some sl25,Ooo to s15o,ooO, in gold